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Generating and Mapping Amazonian Urban Regions Using a Geospatial Approach
By
Pablo Francisco Cabrera Barona, Manuel Bayón, Gustavo Durán, Alejandra Bonilla y Verónica Mejía
(published in
2022-12-09
by
sandra rochina
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Cabrera Barona, Pablo Francisco, Manuel Bayón, Gustavo Durán, Alejandra Bonilla y Verónica Mejía. 2020. Generating and Mapping Amazonian Urban Regions Using a Geospatial Approach. International Journal of Geo-Information, (7)9. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9070453
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https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/7/453
Summary:
In recent years, diverse geographical representations have emerged to explain contemporary urbanization. Traditional urban hinterlands have been rearranged through the development of new economic spaces, the expansion of land-use systems that extract natural resources, and the commodification of natural spaces in the logic of capitalist urbanization. These important transformations of urban systems have also emerged in the Amazon region. Indeed, the Amazon region has been named “urban jungle” since 1980, due to its high proportion of urban residents in comparison with the rural population. Previous research has identified a rural–urban mobility associated with urbanization processes in the Amazon, one that is facilitated by the creation of roads for extractive activities.