Deforestation and land use in the Amazon / edited by Charles H. Wood and Roberto Porro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Charles H., 1945-

Porro, Roberto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deforestation--Amazon River Region.

Deforestation.

Land use.

Amazon River Region.

Land use--Amazon River Region.

Physical Description:

xiii, 385 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Summary:

The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national, and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region. Topics range from the long-term impact of road construction projects, colonization schemes, and commodity prices to immediate concerns over quality of life, water availability, and climate variation. The leading scholars and specialists from Latin America and the United States included in this volume have provided a highly instructive sampler of the best and most useful approaches to land use and deforestation across the broad range of disciplines, agencies, and orientations involved.

Contents:

Introduction: Land Use and Deforestation in the Amazon / Charles H. Wood 1

Part I. National Policies and Regional Patterns

1. Spatial Regression Analysis of Deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / David Kaimowitz, Patricia Mendez, Atie Puntodewo, Jerry Vanclay 41

2. Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Lowland Bolivia / Pablo Pacheco 66

3. An Analysis of the Geographical Patterns of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the Period 1991-1996 / Diogenes S. Alves 95

4. Population Growth and Net Migration in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, 1970-1996 / Stephen G. Perz 107

Part II. Land Use Decisions and Deforestation

5. The Colonist Footprint: Toward a Conceptual Framework of Land Use and Deforestation Trajectories among Small Farmers in the Amazonian Frontier / Eduardo S. Brondizio, Stephen D. McCracken, Emilio F. Moran, Andrea D. Siqueira, Donald R. Nelson, Carlos Rodriguez-Pedraza 133

6. Land Use Patterns on an Agricultural Frontier in Brazil: Insights and Examples from a Demographic Perspective / Stephen D. McCracken, Andrea D. Siqueira, Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondizio 162

7. Trajectories of Land Use: Soils, Succession, and Crop Choice / Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Stephen D. McCracken 193

8. Reading Colonist Landscapes: Social Factors Influencing Land Use Decisions by Small Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder 218

9. Endogenous Patterns and Processes of Settler Land Use and Forest Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Francisco Pichon, Catherine Marquette, Laura Murphy, Richard Bilsborrow 241

Part III. Fires, Pastures, and Deforestation

10. Investigating Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests / Mark A. Cochrane, Ane Alencar, Mark D. Schulze, Carlos M. Souza, Jr., Paul Lefebvre, Daniel C. Nepstad 285

11. Can Pasture Intensification Discourage Deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal Regions of Brazil? / Philip M. Fearnside 299

12. Land Use, Cattle Ranching, and the Concentration of Landownership in Maranhao, Brazil / Roberto Porro 315

Part IV. Community Participation and Resource Management

13. Lessons Learned from Participatory Land Use Planning in the Brazilian Amazon / Virgilio M. Viana, Renata Freire 341

14. An Experiment in Participatory Mapping in Brazil's Jau National Park / Muriel Saragoussi, Marcos Roberto Pinheiro, Maria do Perpetuo Socorro R. Chaves, Andrew William Murchie, Sergio Henrique Borges 352.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813024641

081302465X

OCLC:

48858396