Amazon Seminar Course Readings, 8-20-15
INTRODUCTION
August 24
Recommended:
Schmink, M. 2014. Charles Wagley’s legacy of interdisciplinary graduate research and training programs at the University of Florida. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Ciências Humanas 9: 3: 661-674. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/198181222014000300008. pdf
Ecology & History
August 31 Tropical ecology; geological history; climate; biodiversity and forest dynamics: Bette Loiselle
Wood, Charles H. 2002. Introduction: Land Use and Deforestation in the Amazon. Pp. 1-38 in C.H. Wood and R. Porro (eds.), Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. pdf
Holling, C. S. and Lance H. Gunderson. 2002. Resilience and Adaptive Cycles. Pp. 25-62 in C.S. Holling and Lance H. Gunderson (eds.), Panarchy. Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. pdf
Kricher, J. 1997. Chapters 1, 3, and 4 in A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of The New World Tropics (2nd ed). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. pdf
September 14 Prehistoric settlement: Mike Heckenberger
Clement, Charles R., William M. Denevan , Michael J. Heckenberger, André Braga Junqueira, Eduardo G. Neves, Wenceslau G. Teixeira and William I. Woods. 2015. The domestication http://www.loisellelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Holling-Gundersen-2002-Resilience-and-Adaptive-Cycles.pdfof Amazonia before European conquest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20150813; http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0813. pdf
Heckenberger, Michael J. , J. Christian Russell, Carlos Fausto, Joshua R. Toney, Morgan J. Schmidt, Edithe Pereira, Bruna Franchetto and Afukaka Kuikuro. 2008. Pre-Columbian urbanism, anthropogenic landscapes, and the future of the Amazon. Science 321.5893 (August 29): 1214(4). pdf
Heckenberger, Michael J. 2014. Bio-historical diversity, sustainability and collaboration in the Xingu. Anuário Antropológico, Brasília, (UnB): 39: 2: 69-97. pdf
Mann, Charles. 2008. Earthmovers of the Amazon. Science 321 (August 29): 1148-1152. pdf
Schmink, Marianne and Charles H. Wood. 1992. Contested Frontiers in Amazonia: Introduction. Pp. 1-32 in M. Schmink and C.H. Wood, Contested Frontiers in Amazonia. New York: Columbia University Press. pdf
Barlow, Jos, Robert M. Ewers, Liana Anderson, Luiz E. O. C. Aragao, Tim R. Baker, Emily Boyd, Ted R. Feldpausch, Emanuel Gloor, Anthony Hall, Yadvinder Malhi, Willliam Milliken, Mark Mulligan, Luke Parry, Toby Pennington, Carlos A. Peres, Oliver L Phillips, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, Joseph A. Tobias, and Toby A. Gardner. 2011. Using learning networks to understand complex systems: A case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon. Biological Reviews 86: 457-474. pdf
September 21 Urbanization: Marianne Schmink
Barbieri, A.F; Monte-Mór, R.L.; Bilsborrow, R.E. 2009. Towns in the jungle: exploring linkages between rural-urban mobility, urbanization and development in the Amazon. In: de Sherbiniin, A.;Rahman, A.; Barbieri, A.; Fotso, J.C.;Zhu, Y..(Org.). Urban Population and Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Paris: CICRED. pdf
Schmink, M. 2011. Forest citizens: Changing life conditions and social identities in the land of the rubber tappers. Latin American Research Review 46: 141-158. pdf
Browder, John O. 2002. The urban-rural interface: Urbanization and tropical forest cover change. Urban Ecosystems 6(1): 21-41. pdf
Guedes, Gilvan, Sandra Costa, and Eduardo Brondízio. 2009. Revisiting the hierarchy of urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon: a multilevel approach. Population and Environment 30:159–192. pdf
Padoch, Christine, Eduardo Brondizio, Sandra Costa, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Robin R. Sears, and Andrea Siqueira. 2008. Urban forest and rural cities: Multi-sited households, consumption patterns, and forest resources in Amazonia. Ecology & Society 13:2:2. pdf
September 28 PES/REDD: Jack Putz, Claudia Romero, Thales West
Putz, Frances J. and Claudia Romero. 2012. Helping curb tropical forest degradation by linking REDD+ with other conservation interventions: a view from the forest. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4:670–677. pdf
Hall, Anthony. 2011. Getting REDD-Y: Conservation and climate change in Latin America. Latin American Research Review 46: 184-210. pdf
Coomes, Oliver T., Franque Grimard, Catherin Potvin, Philip Sima. 2008. The fate of the tropical forest: carbon or cattle? Ecological Economics 65: 207-212. pdf
Nepstad, Daniel C. David G. McGrath, and Britaldo Soares-Filho. 2011. Systemic conservation, REDD and the future of the Amazon Basin. Conservation Biology 25: 6, 1113–1116. pdf
Thales A. P. West (2015): Indigenous community benefits from a de-centralized approach to REDD+ in Brazil. Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2015.1058238 pdf
CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES
October 5 Deforestation, fragmentation and fire feedbacks: Robert Walker
Cochrane, Mark A., and William F. Laurance. 2008. Synergisms among fire, land use, and climate change in the Amazon. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 37: 522-527. pdf
Arima, Eugenio Y., Robert T. Walker, Stephen Perz, and Carlos Souza Jr. 2015. Explaining the fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazonian forest. Journal of Land Use Science ahead-of-print (2015): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.522 pdf
Walker, Robert, John Browder, Eugenio Arima, Cynthia Simmons, Ritaumaria Pereira, Marcellus Caldas, Ricardo Shirota, and Sergio de Zen. 2009. Ranching and the new global range: Amazonia in the 21st century. Geoforum 40:732-745. pdf
Walker, Robert, and Peter Richards. 2014. A political ecology of the disappearance of the Amazonian forest. Pages 24-47 in Christian Bannstrom and Jacqueline M. Vadjunec (eds.), Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability: Synergies and Divergences. New York: Routledge. pdf
Recommended:
Barber, Christopher P., Mark A. Cochrane, Carlos M. Souza, Jr., and William F. Laurance. 2014. Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon. Biological Conservation 177:203-209. pdf
Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro C. de Araujo, Paulo Artaxo, Jennifer K. Balch, I. Foster Brown, Mercedes M. C. Bustamante, Michael T. Coe, Ruth S. DeFries, Michael Keller, Marcos Longo, J. William Munger, Wilfrid Schroeder, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Carlos M. Souza Jr, and Steven C. Wofsy. 2012. The Amazon basin in transition. Nature 481:321-328. pdf
Nepstad, D., S. Schwartzman, B. Bamberger, M. Santelli, D. Ray, P. Schlesinger, P. Levebvre, A. Alencar, E. Prinz, G. Fiske, and A. Rolla. 2006. Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous lands. Conservation Biology 20:65-73. pdf
October 12 Mining and oil extraction: Santiago Espinosa and Andrea Chaves
Bass, Margot S., Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F. McCracken, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Peter H. English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C. Voigt, and Thomas H. Kunz. 2010. Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador’s Yasunı´National Park. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008767. pdf
Finer, Matt, and Martí Orta-Martínez. 2010. A Second Hydrocarbon Boom Threatens the Peruvian Amazon: Trends, Projections, and Policy Implications. Environmental Research Letters 5:1-10. pdf
Martin, Pamela L. 2011. Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Global Environmental Politics 11: 4 (November), 22-42. pdf
Mercury in Madre de Dios. Mercury concentrations in fish and humans in Puerto Maldonado. Research Brief # 1. Carnegie Amazon Mercury Ecosystem Project, March 2013. pdf
Alvarez-Berríos, Nora L., and T. Mitchell Aide. 2015. Global demand for gold is another threat for tropical forests. Environmental Research Letters 10 (2015) 014006. pdf
Recommended:
Espinosa, Santiago, Lyn C. Branch, and Ruben Cueva. 2014. Road Development and the Geography of Hunting by an Amazonian Indigenous Group: Consequences for Wildlife Conservation. PLoSONE 9(12): e114916. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114916 pdf
Pappalardo, Salvatore E., Massimo De Marchi, and Francesco Ferrarese. 2013. Uncontacted Waorani in the Yasunı´ Biosphere Reserve: Geographical Validation of the Zona Intangible Tagaeri Taromenane (ZITT). PLoS ONE 8(6): e66293. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066293 pdf
Rival, Laura. 2010. Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: The old and new values of petroleum. Ecological Economics 70: 358–365. pdf
Sierra, Rodrigo, Fabian Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Losos. 1999. Forest resource use change during early market integration in tropical rain forests: the Huaorani of upper Amazonia. Ecological Economics 30:107–119. pdf
Suárez, Esteban, Galo Zapata-Ríos, V. Utreras, S. Strindberg and J. Vargas. 2012. Controlling access to oil roads protects forest cover, but not wildlife communities: a case study from the rainforest of Yasuní Biosphere Reserve (Ecuador). Animal Conservation, doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00592.x. pdf
Finer, Matt, Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm, Brian Keane and Carl Ross. 2008. Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples. Plos One 3(8): e2932. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002932. pdf
October 19 Social movements and land struggles: Cynthia Simmons
Simmons, Cynthia. 2004. The political economy of land conflict in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(1), 2004, pp. 183–206. pdf
Brenda Baletti (2012) Ordenamento Territorial: Neo-developmentalism and the struggle for territory in the lower Brazilian Amazon, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39:2, 573-598, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.664139. pdf
Allegretti, Mary and Marianne Schmink. 2009. When Social Movement Proposals Become Policy: Experiments in Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon. Pp. 196-213 in Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce (eds.), Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods. Gainesville, Fl: University Press of Florida. pdf
October 26 Dams and indigenous people: David Kaplan, Denis Valle, Elineide Marques, Carolina Doria
Stickler, Claudia. M., Michael T. Coe, Marcos H. Costa, Daniel C. Nepstad, David G. McGrath, Livia C. P. Dias, and Britaldo S. Soares-Filho. 2013. Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(23):9601-9606. pdf
Athayde, Simone. 2014. Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Dams and Resistance. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 1, 80-92. Available at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol12/iss2/1 pdf
Castello, Leandro., David G. McGrath, Laura L. Hess, Michael T. Coe, Paul A. Lefebvre, Paulo Petry, Marcia N. Macedo, Vivian F. Renó, and Caroline C. Arantes. 2013. The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems. Conservation Letters 6:217-229. pdf
Zhouri, Ándrea and Raquel Oliveira. 2012. Development and environmental conflicts in Brazil: Challenges for anthropology and anthropologists. Vibrant 9(1):180-208. Available at http://www.vibrant.org.br/issues/v9n1/andrea-zhouri-and-raquel-oliveira-development-and-environmental-conflicts-in-brazil/ pdf
Fearnside, Philip. 2012. Belo Monte Dam: A spearhead for Brazil’s dam-building attack on Amazonia? Canberra, Australia: Global Water Forum Discussion Paper 1210. Available online at: http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2012/03/19/belo–‐monte–‐dam–‐a–‐spearhead–‐for–‐brazils–‐dam–‐building–‐attack–‐on–‐amazonia/ pdf
Recommended:
Oliver-Smith, Anthony. 2014. Framing Social-Environmental Justice by Amazonian Indigenous Peoples: The Kayapo Case. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 12(2):18-121. http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol12/iss2/6 pdf
Diamond, Sara, and Christian Poirier. 2010. Brazil’s native peoples and the Belo Monte dam: A case study. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report on the Americas (September/October): 25-29. pdf
Finer, Matt, and Clinton N. Jenkins. 2012. Proliferation of hydroelectric dams in the Andean Amazon and implications for Andes-Amazon connectivity. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035126 pdf
November 2 Cultural forests of the Amazon: Nigel Smith
Denevan, W. 1992.The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82:369-385. pdf
Smith, Nigel, Rodolfo Vasquez, and Walter Wust. 2010. Cinderella fruits and cultural forests in Pacaya-Samiria, Peruvian Amazon. Amazonica 2: 2: 328-350. pdf
Cleary, David. 2001. Towards an Environmental History of the Amazon: From Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century. Latin American Research Review 36: 2: 64-96. pdf
Recommended:
Balée, William. 1999. Footprints of the Forest: Ka’apor Ethnobotany – the Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People. New York: Columbia University Press.
Balée, William and Clark Erickson. 2005. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology. New York: Columbia Univ Press.
Denevan, W. 2001. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
Smith, Nigel. 1999. The Amazon River Forest. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
Smith, Nigel 1999. Amazon Sweet Sea. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Smith, Nigel. 2014. Palms and People in the Amazon. New York: Springer.
November 9 Community Forest Management: Karen Kainer
Duchelle, Amy E., Karen A. Kainer and Lucia H. O. Wadt. 2014. Is certification associated with better forest management and socioeconomic benefits? A comparative analysis of three certification schemes applied to Brazil nuts in Western Amazonia. Society and Natural Resources 27:121-139. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2013.840022 pdf
Pokorny, Benno, and James Johnson. 2008. Community forestry in the Amazon: the unsolved challenges of forests and the poor. Overseas Development Institute Natural Resource Perspectives 112:1-4. pdf
Karen Kainer, Marianne Schmink, Arthur C. P. Leite, and Mario J. S. Fadell. 2003. Experiments in Forest-Based Development in Western Amazonia. Society and Natural Resources 16:869-886. pdf
Recommended:
Cossio, Rosa, Mary Menton, Peter Cronkleton, and Anne Larson. 2014. Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon. CIFOR Working Paper 136. pdf
Alcorn, Janis B. 2014. Lessons Learned from Community Forestry in Latin America and Their Relevance for REDD+. USAID-supported Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) Program. Washington, DC, USA. 74 pp. pdf
Sears, Robin R., Christine Padoch, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez. 2007. Amazon forestry transformed: integrating knowledge for smallholder timber management in eastern Brazil. Human Ecology 35:697-707. pdf
November 16 Commodity Plantation Expansion and Traditional Knowledge in Eastern Amazonia
Backhouse, Maria. 2015. Green grabbing – The case of palm oil expansion in so-called degraded areas in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. In: Dietz, Kristina; Brunnengräber Achim; Engels, Bettina; Pye, Oliver (eds.): The Political Ecology of the Agrofuels. Routledge. pdf
Baletti, Brenda. 2014. Saving the Amazon? Sustainable soy and the new extractivism. Environment and Planning A 46: 5-25. pdf
Recommended:
Mattei, Ugo and Laura Nader. 2008. Chapter 1 (pp. 10-34), Plunder and the rule of law, in Mattei and Nader, Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal. Blackwell. pdf
November 23 Community-based Ecotourism: Amanda Stronza
Stronza, Amanda L. 2010. Commons management and ecotourism: ethnographic evidence from the Amazon. International Journal of the Commons 4:1 (February): 56–77. pdf
Stronza, Amanda and Jorge Gordillo. 2008. Community views of ecotourism. Annals of Tourism Research: 35: 2: 448–468. pdf
Belsky, Jill M. 1999. Misrepresenting communities: The politics of community-based rural ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize. Rural Sociology; Dec 1999; 64, 4: 641-666. pdf
Gillingham, Sarah. 2001. Social organization and participatory resource management in Brazilian ribeirinho communities: A case study of the Mamirauá sustainable development reserve, Amazonas. Society and Natural Resources 14: 803-814. pdf
Nelson, Sherre, Nailza P. Porto, Suzana M. Padua, and Marco Antônio Vaz de Lima. 2015. Conservation and Sustainable Tourism in the lower Rio Negro Basin, Amazonas Brazil. IPÊ: unpublished document. pdf
November 30 Policy Roundtable
Hochstetler, Kathryn and Margaret E. Keck. 2007. Amazonia. Pp. 140-185 in K. Hochstetler and M.E. Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham & London: Duke University Press. pdf
Njagi, Tim, Lilian Kirimi, Gerardo Damonte, and Manuel Glave. 2015. Collective land access rights for enhancing smallholder livelihoods. ELLA Research Paper Series: Design and Methods paper May 2015. http://ella.practicalaction.org/ pdf
Gibbs, Holly, L. Rausch, J. Munger, I. Schelly, D. C. Morton, P. Noojipady, B. Soares-Filho, P. Barreto, L. Micol, and N. F. Walker. 2015. Brazil’s soy moratorium. Science 347:376-378. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0181 pdf
Gibbs, Holly K., Jacob Munger, Jessica L’Roe, Paulo Barreto, Ritaumaria Pereira, Matthew Christie, Ticiana Amaral, and Nathalie F. Walker. 2015. Did ranchers and slaughterhouses respond to zero-deforestation agreements in the Brazilian Amazon? Conservation Letters April 2015:1-10. Doi: 10.1111/conl.12175 pdf
Recommended:
Kaimowitz, David. 2010. On the frontier: impact-oriented multidisciplinary research. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 29(6):560-570. pdf
December 7 Wrap up and evaluation