The Amazon in motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes, and livelihoods

S Hecht, M Schmink, R Abers… - … Report 2021, Part …, 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
This chapter reviews the often-invisible, powerful processes that drive social and ecological
change in the Amazon, and the diverse peoples who inhabit its landscapes. It explores the …

Sustainable-use protected areas catalyze enhanced livelihoods in rural Amazonia

JV Campos-Silva, CA Peres… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Finding new pathways for reconciling socioeconomic well-being and nature sustainability is
critically important for contemporary societies, especially in tropical develo** countries …

La urbanización indígena en la Amazonia. Un nuevo contexto de articulación social y territorial

M Alexiades, D Peluso - Gazeta de Antropología; 32 (1), 2016 - digibug.ugr.es
La idea generalizada de la Amazonia como una región compuesta principalmente por
poblaciones bosquesinas está desactualizada: una gran parte de la población indígena o …

Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon: A review

M Menton, P Cronkleton - 2019 - books.google.com
Page 1 WORKING PAPER 251 Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon A review Mary
Menton Peter Cronkleton Page 2 Page 3 Working Paper 251 Migration and forests in the …

Bushmeat networks link the forest to urban areas in the trifrontier region between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru

N Van Vliet, MP Quiceno, D Cruz, LJN de Aquino… - Ecology and society, 2015 - JSTOR
Recent studies have intended to quantify urban consumption and trade in Amazonian towns.
However, little is still known about the different ways in which bushmeat is made available in …

Introduction: Indigenous Urbanization in Lowland South America.

MN Alexiades, DM Peluso - Journal of Latin American & …, 2015 - search.ebscohost.com
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on
topics including social condition of the Tukanoan women after their forced migration …

Exploring food sovereignty among Amazonian peoples: Brazil's national school feeding programme in Oriximiná, Pará state

H Affonso, JA Fraser, Í Nepomuceno… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We present an empirically-grounded exploration of food sovereignty among Brazilian
Amazonian forest-proximate peoples, revealing five dimensions bound together by …

Ride, shoot, and call: wildlife use among contemporary urban hunters in Três Fronteiras, Brazilian Amazon

N van Vliet, D Cruz, MP Quiceno-Mesa… - Ecology and …, 2015 - JSTOR
Most bushmeat studies in the Amazon region focus on hunting patterns of indigenous
populations in rural settings. Our study describes the existence of urban hunters in medium …

New perspectives on mobility, urbanisation and resource management in riverine Amazonia

L Eloy, ES Brondizio, R Do Pateo - Bulletin of Latin American …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the A mazon has experienced simultaneous processes of urbanisation and
creation of protected areas. Debates over the changing role of traditional peoples in the …

Conditional cash transfers, food security, and health: biocultural insights for poverty-alleviation policy from the Brazilian Amazon

BA Piperata, K McSweeney… - Current …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become an increasingly popular component
of poverty-alleviation policies worldwide. The highly publicized success of Brazil's Bolsa …