![]() We compiled a spatially explicit database with 50 socio-economic and environmental potential factors using 25 km × 25 km regular cells. Our land-use data combines deforestation maps derived from remote sensing and 1996 agricultural census. We built spatial regression models to assess the determining factors of deforestation, pasture, temporary and permanent agriculture in four space partitions: the whole Amazon the Densely Populated Arch (southern and eastern parts of the Amazon), where most deforestation has occurred Central Amazon, where the new frontiers are located and Occidental Amazon, still mostly undisturbed. The goal of this paper is to explore intra-regional differences in land-use determining factors. The process of human occupation in Brazilian Amazonia is heterogeneous in space and time.
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