Amazonian Deforestation and the Structure of Households Phase 3
Investigator(s)
Principal investigator:
Emilio F. Moran, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University, USA
E-mail: moran(at)indiana.edu
Abstract
This project addresses the reciprocal relationship between population and environment in frontier areas of the Brazilian Amazon by focusing on the linked processes of social, economic, demographic and environmental change. These processes are manifest across social and spatial scales, from individual to household to region and from parcel to landscape. In this project we will explicitly focus on the relations between rural and urban linkages and the entry of large-scale external capital into a region, and will use forest transition theory at a subnational level to help us better understand trajectories of demographic and land use/land cover change in the Amazon and elsewhere. We will follow small farmers and the rural landscape, but ask what happens to them when large capitalized farmers enter a region. This is the third phase of a decade long study, in this new phase running 5 years, the project will carry out follow up surveys in previously surveyed households and properties in Santarem, add urban samples for Altamira and Santarem, and add both a rural and urban survey for Lucas de Rio Verde (added in phase 3). The project will acquire satellite data to update the time series for all three sites to cover a 30 year period of development.
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