A5039374607- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Indigenous Health and Education
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Mining and Resource Management
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Plant and soil sciences
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Latin American rural development
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
2007-2024
Amazon (Germany)
2021-2023
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
2016-2023
Combat Medical (Spain)
2023
Amazon (United States)
2023
Instituto Florestal
2023
Agence des Aires Marines Protégées
2023
Instituto Sócioambiental
2023
Environmental Research Institute
2021
Clark University
2021
Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many reasons, among them enhanced abilities released to sequester carbon and provide environmental services. Difficulties measuring extent spared land make it impossible investigate fully hypothesized causal chain from agricultural declines then increases land. We analyze historical circumstances which rising yields have...
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half planet's remaining forests. But is it truly in peril? And what steps are necessary to save it? To understand future Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: eras large pre-Columbian populations, gold rush conquistadors, centuries slavery, schemes Brazil's military dictators 1960s and 1970s, new globalized economies where Brazilian soy beef...
What is the scale of Mediterranean? It history … -Fernand Braudel ([1949] 1996)The impact Eric Wolf's work so extensive, and has been naturalized in critical studies o...
Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities – serving as nexus for production food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds industrial products South America its leading region. The soy boom on this continent entangles transnational capital commodity flows with social relations deeply embedded in contested ecologies. In introduction to collection, we first describe 'neo-nature' complex political economy sector America, including new corporate actors financial...
Abstract The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern 1–3 . For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, region is increasingly exposed unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires, even in central remote parts of 1 Long existing feedbacks between environmental conditions are being replaced by novel...
Journal Article The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia: Considering land markets, value ancillaries, the larger macroeconomic context, individual economic strategies Get access Susanna B. Hecht Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BioScience, Volume 43, Issue 10, November 1993, Pages 687–695, https://doi.org/10.2307/1312340 Published: 01 1993
Bolivia's rate of deforestation throughout the 1990s was among most rapid anywhere in Amazon Basin. This drastic clearing stood sharp contrast to relatively slow rates landscape change that had prevailed previous decades. article reviews models used for explaining deforestation, and argues new context globalization, structural adjustment, regional integration technological contributed accelerated forest cutting during 1990s. The author suggests many environmental policy approaches developed...
Globalization is often associated with deforestation, but its impacts on forest recovery are less known. We analyzed socioeconomic data, land-use surveys, and satellite imagery to monitor changes in woody cover El Salvador from the early 1990s present. Even where rural population density exceeded 250 people per square kilometer, we documented a 22% increase area more than 30% tree cover, 7% 60% cover. Woodland resurgence reflected processes including civil war, retraction of agricultural...
This paper outlines the importance of small-scale extractive sector to extremely impoverished households in rural areas tropical Brazil. Extractive activities are important as inputs household reproduction, and critical a source cash income. In case study we analyze, extraction was roughly equivalent wage labor agriculture its contribution We suggest that development analysis, significant both use exchange values has been overlooked. issue is particular concern for three main reasons. First,...
SUMMARY Brazil's rate of deforestation has declined by more than 70% since 2004, a dynamic unimaginable even decade ago. Even the worst drought in 100 years (2010) produced flat clearing profile from 2009–2010, an unexpected result, dry periods usually have spikes. While continues throughout tropics (and Amazonia), and recent change Forest Code modest increase deforestation, there are significant processes that slowing fostering woodland recovery. This paper outlines multiplicities...
Forest dynamics in the Latin American tropics now take directions that no one would have predicted a decade ago. Deforestation Brazilian Amazon has dropped by over 80 percent, pattern mimicked elsewhere Amazonia, and is down more than third Central America. resurgence – increasing forest cover inhabited landscapes or abandoned lands also expanding. In America, woodland increasing, at least for now, it being lost. These dramatic shifts suggest quite profound rapid transformations of agrarian...
Abstract: The Tierras Bajas is an area of 20,000 km 2 lowland deciduous forest in eastern Santa Cruz, Bolivia, that has undergone rapid change during the past two decades. As part largest remaining intact tropical world, it been nominated a priority for conservation by several environmental organizations. We quantified spatial and temporal patterns deforestation digital processing high‐resolution satellite imagery from 1975 through 1998. estimated rate was among highest world such limited...