In previous decades, Bolivian forests have mainly been deforested by the expansion of agricultural frontier development, driven by the growing demands for beef and other productions.
To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.
My dissertation analyzes the multi-pronged efforts that drove global soy frontier development to determine why soy was the most rapidly-expanding crop of the postwar era, and to uncover the interests served in the homogenization of vast landscapes under soybean fields.
Among these newcomers was Philippe Heilberg, a libertarian former commodity broker who basks in the glow of cowboy capitalism, proactive frontier development, and doing business with warlords.
However, the examples frequently cited to demonstrate such unsustainable resource use are quite often examples that characterize frontier development, colonial economies, and other examples of laissez-faire industrial (or state) capitalism, situations in which pre-existing indigenous property rights are dismantled, ignored, or are not enforced (Berkes 1996:94-95).
Frontier Developments, which made the game, turned to the crowdfunding platform after being unable to find a company that would publish the game for years, despite intense fan interest.
The Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics, held every four years, provide the main forum for researchers in the area of Bayesian Statistics to come together to present and discus frontier developments in the field.
Frontiers of Development Economics: The future in perspective.
The 2010 Report continued the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking.
"The Revolution Must be Green: Feeding the Future through Sustainable Innovations" Frontiers in Development, USAID, Washington DC, May 2012.
