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AN Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development?

Carvalho, Georgia; Moutinho, Paulo; Nepstad, Daniel; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 1, pp. 163-174

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Evaluation of Vulnerability to Extreme Climatic Events in the Brazilian Amazonia: Methodological Proposal to the Rio Acre Basin

Sena, José; Freitas, Marcos; Berrêdo, Daniel; … - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 15, pp. 4553-4568

The southern border of the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most sensitive areas to deforestation in Brazil. In addition to problems related to changes in land use, new issues are emerging, including climate change and its negative effects on the regional hydrological cycle. In recent years...

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Amazonian forest loss and the long reach of China’s influence

Fearnside, Philip; Figueiredo, Adriano; Bonjour, Sandra - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 2, pp. 325-338

resources. The paper examines how China influences deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia in a variety of ways, including through … timber and aluminum also cause environmental impacts in Amazonia. Chinese financing and investment in Amazonian …

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Nobody farms here anymore: Livelihood diversification in the Amazonian community of Carvão, a historical perspective

Steward, Angela - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 1, pp. 75-92

Over the past 15 years income sources in the Amazonian community of Carvão have diversified to include government salaries, retirement and welfare benefits, and wages from an evolving informal service sector. These non-farm incomes are now more important to household incomes than the sale of...

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Colonist farmers' perceptions of fertility and the frontier environment in eastern Amazonia

Muchagata, Marcia; Brown, Katrina - In: Agriculture and Human Values 17 (2000) 4, pp. 371-384

. Farmers in the frontier regionof Marabá, Eastern Amazonia, understand nutrient cycling and the links between different …

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Division of labor and resource management in eastern Pará, Brazil

Ximenes, Tereza - In: Agriculture and Human Values 18 (2001) 1, pp. 49-56

Peasants of the northeastern Pará cultivate cassava (manioc esculenta) using shifting cultivation. This paper discusses some factors in support of cassava production, even though it has some negative environmental impacts. These factors are the importance of cassava in the region's history,...

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Mudancas em Infra-estrutura, Agencia Humana e Resiliencia em Sistemas Socio-ecologicos: Arcabouço Teórico e Abordagem Metodologica

Perz, Stephen G.; Valho, Lucas Araujo Car; Passos, Veronica - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008

Propomos aumentar o conhecimento sobre os impactos da construção e melhoramento em obras de infra-estrutura, nesse caso em particular das estradas, e nas relações entre as pessoas e a floresta. Este tema multifacetado será abordado por um complexo sistema de interações, com ênfase na...

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Biodiversity, food consumption and ecological niche dimension: a study case of the riverine populations from the Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil

Silva, Andréa; Begossi, Alpina - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 11 (2009) 3, pp. 489-507

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Mas alla del exito o el fracaso: analisis de alianzas para la conservacion y el desarrollo en territorios indigenas

Arevalo, Eloisa Berman - UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE BOLÍVAR - 2010

ONGs, entidades públicas y organizaciones indígenas en una zona de alto valor biológico y cultural en la Amazonia …

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Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming-mitigation option

Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2 (1997) 2, pp. 285-302

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