%0 Journal Article %T Energy supply and agricultural specialisation in the settlement frontiers in Southern Amazonia [Approvisionnement energetique et specialisation agricole des regions pionnieres: L'Amazonie meridionale] %+ Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED) %A de Gouvello, C. %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0046-2497 %J Espace Géographique %I Éditions Belin %V 28 %N 3 %P 257 %8 1999 %D 1999 %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance %Z Environmental SciencesJournal articles %X As the Brazilian energy sector is deregulated, a combination of economic and geographical approaches points up the influence of energy policies on the expansion into the frontier south of the Amazon as a periphery of the economic centre of Sao Paulo. While the role of electricity in agricultural development remains marginal, the remoteness of markets adds a strategic dimension to the price of petroleum fuels: the mitigating effect of rate equalisation on cost-distance is sufficient if the agricultural specialisation is soya bean rather than corn. However, the privatisation of the colonisation process has deprived small-scale colonists of the benefits of the transfer of resources offered by the rate equalisation: forced to regress to primitive forms of power, they are unable to establish themselves permanently. %G French %L hal-00716716 %U https://enpc.hal.science/hal-00716716 %~ SHS %~ CIRAD %~ SDE %~ AGROPARISTECH %~ ENPC %~ CNRS %~ EHESS %~ ENGREF %~ CIRED %~ AO-ECONOMIE %~ PARISTECH %~ GIP-BE %~ AGREENIUM