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Publikováno v:
Conservation, Vol 3, Iss 4, Pp 523-542 (2023)
Over the past several decades, concern has grown over the rising mortality of the Amazon river dolphin (‘boto’) from increased human–dolphin interactions. Among these interactions are tourist attractions involving up-close feeding encounters wi
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/2d56595be020429d93dad898b4cac0b7
Publikováno v:
Land, Vol 10, Iss 6, p 588 (2021)
This study explores Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) production and company–community partnerships with the multinational cosmetic industry. The objectives are to critically assess: (1) how income generated from market-oriented NTFPs extraction i
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/ddb7cb39eee747938036f74c8bee3892
Autor:
Marta Astier, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Robert Walker, Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Carlos González-Esquivel, Cynthia S. Simmons
Publikováno v:
Land, Vol 9, Iss 3, p 75 (2020)
Rural life in México has changed drastically over the past several decades in the wake of structural reforms in the 1980s and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) implemented in 1994. Researchers predicted dire consequences for smallholde
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/6fb296f2362e49eeae9f950a15521f3a
Publikováno v:
Land, Vol 5, Iss 3, p 24 (2016)
Smallholder farming in the Brazilian Amazon has changed markedly over the last few decades, following a pervasive swing to cattle production observed across the basin. These changes have brought opportunities for accumulating a modicum of wealth that
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/51af9155220c4182ae2c7d4fd559140b
Autor:
Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Mateus Batistella, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Feng Fu, Thomas W. Hertel, R. Cesar Izaurralde, Eric F. Lambin, Shuxin Li, Luiz A. Martinelli, William J. McConnell, Emilio F. Moran, Rosamond Naylor, Zhiyun Ouyang, Karen R. Polenske, Anette Reenberg, Gilberto de Miranda Rocha, Cynthia S. Simmons, Peter H. Verburg, Peter M. Vitousek, Fusuo Zhang, Chunquan Zhu
Publikováno v:
Ecology and Society, Vol 18, Iss 2, p 26 (2013)
Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with li
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/bc8652ee3b8e47c0aa0ea0fd96042757
Autor:
Aghane Antunes, Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Robert Walker, Michael Waylen, Cynthia S. Simmons, Maíra Irigaray, Eugenio Arima
Publikováno v:
One Earth. 1:202-215
A new threat now confronts the Amazon in the form of a massive infrastructure program, the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America, or IIRSA. This article presents results of a projection analysis showing that I
Autor:
Fernando Michelotti, Ritaumaria Pereira, Cynthia S. Simmons, Aghane Antunes, Eugenio Arima, Michael Waylen, Robert Walker, Edna Maria Ramos de Castro, Stephen Aldrich
Publikováno v:
Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109:242-265
This article considers Amazonian environmental change by focusing on political and economic processes in a place-specific context with far-reaching global implications. In particular, we consider t...
Autor:
Robert Walker, Marta Astier, Cynthia S. Simmons, Carlos E. González-Esquivel, Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez
Publikováno v:
Land, Vol 9, Iss 3, p 75 (2020)
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Rural life in Mé
xico has changed drastically over the past several decades in the wake of structural reforms in the 1980s and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) implemented in 1994. Researchers predicted dire consequences for
xico has changed drastically over the past several decades in the wake of structural reforms in the 1980s and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) implemented in 1994. Researchers predicted dire consequences for
Autor:
Clyde W. Fraisse, Luis Otávio do Canto Lopes, Cynthia S. Simmons, Daniel Juhn, Lisa Famolare, Marcia N. Macedo, Cesar Ruiz, Ritaumaria Pereira, Michael T. Coe, Robert Walker, Denis Valle, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Aghane Antunes, Marcelo Bentes Diniz, Michael Waylen, Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein, Paul R. Moorcroft, Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz, Eugenio Arima, Brett R. Scheffers, Yankuic M Galvan, Gilberto de Miranda Rocha
Publikováno v:
Biotropica. 50:850-858
This article presents a 21st Century agenda for Amazonian conservation. The agenda calls for developing a system of refugia and a scientific methodology for predicting impacts of the infrastructure development vision for the region. It also calls for
Autor:
Robert Walker, Cynthia S. Simmons
Publikováno v:
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 60:4-15
Robert WalkerOne of Amazonia's most pristine waterways, the Tapajos River, is under a development threat that holds implications for the entire basin. This threat stems from an infrastructure plan ...