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SUBMITTER: de Castro MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1413719 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Castro Marcia Caldas MC Monte-Mór Roberto L RL Sawyer Diana O DO Singer Burton H BH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060206 7
Frontier malaria is a biological, ecological, and sociodemographic phenomenon operating over time at three spatial scales (micro/individual, community, and state and national). We explicate these linkages by integrating data from remote sensing surveys, ground-level surveys and ethnographic appraisal, focusing on the Machadinho settlement project in Rondônia, Brazil. Spatially explicit analyses reveal that the early stages of frontier settlement are dominated by environmental risks, consequentia ...[more]