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| Vadjunec, Jacqueline M.; Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University; jacqueline.vadjunec@okstate.edu; Rocheleau, Dianne; Graduate School of Geography, Clark University; drocheleau@clarku.edu. |
| Among the strategies to promote sustainable tropical forest development around the world, the Federal Extractive Reserve System of Brazil is widely cited as an exemplary model. It is designed to protect rubber tapper communities, their forests, and their livelihoods while preventing deforestation and conserving biodiversity. In response to changing markets and policies, rubber tappers in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve have recently diversified production to include market agriculture and cattle production, precipitating deforestation in the reserve, with the implication of increased ecological degradation compared to the extraction of nontimber forest products (NTFPs). Our remote sensing and forest inventory analyses yield different insights about the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Ecological monitoring; Extractive reserves; Land use; Livelihood; Tropical deforestation. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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