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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Peruvian Amazon"”.
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
Peru’s Amazon region is one of the newest fronts in a growing national and international interest in oil palm production. State legislation and market incentives have accelerated the growth of the industry by promoting large-scale investment and land acquisition. Based on an examination of the …
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Participation and representation: REDD+ in the native communities of Belgica and Infierno in the Peruvian Amazon
… representation in indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Based on data gathered in interviews with community members, communal authorities, project developers, government authorities, and other relevant actors, I examine the reasons by which communities end up engaging in REDD+, the …
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The effectiveness of protected area funding for forest conservation and human development in the Peruvian Amazon
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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The discourse and reality of "win-win" interventions for forests and people in the Peruvian Amazon
Local projects aiming to jointly reduce deforestation, climate change and poverty are increasingly popular. Yet, despite widespread claims of “win-win” success, there is growing evidence of significant trade-offs. My doctoral research examines three globally widespread strategies to achieve …
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Native blowguns and national guns: The Achuar Jivaroans and the dialectics of power in the Peruvian Amazon
… 1983 among the Achuar Jivaroans of the Peruvian Upper Amazon, the processes of asymmetrical interdependence between this native population and the expansionist national-multinational fronts are explored with particular attention to the dialectics and strategies of power.
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Oil palm expansion and land cover changes in the Peruvian Amazon: implications for forest conservation and fire mitigation
… is a major challenge for forest conservation in Amazonia. Forest cover loss and anticipated changes in climate are expected to increase fire incidence in Amazonia with detrimental consequences to human health, climate, and natural ecosystems. In this dissertation I developed remote sensing …
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Women's empowerment in informal settlements of the Peruvian Amazon frontier: A case study of 9 de Octubre, Pucallpa-Peru
… settlements located in peri-urban areas of Peruvian Amazon cities have been carrying out programs for solving nutrition, food, health, and income generation problems in their communities. This is a way of women's local action of self-help and self-reliance to transform their marginalized …
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"Somos Parte de la Solución": Women Activists' Knowledge of Gendered Risk and Their Educational Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Peruvian Amazon
… is a critical ethnography conducted in the Amazon jungle city of Iquitos, Peru--a city where sex work and sex tourism are becoming increasingly prevalent, and where AIDS cases in women are on the rise. In recent years, HIV positive and sex worker women activists in Iquitos have made …
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Environmental governance and implications of small-scale logging: the case of the indigenous groups in the Ampiyacu Basin in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon
Small-scale logging by indigenous people in Amazonia remains little studied despite the importance of this activity to forest communities and its relevance to the implementation of conservation initiatives. Previous studies in the region have given an overview of small-scale logging and the role of …
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The living library : an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is combating climate change, deforestation, and loss of traditional knowledge by preserving their plants in the wild
… is five hectares of primary forest in the Amazon preserved as an intact library of indigenous plants, many of them medicinally useful, near the river village of Paoyhan in Ucayali, Peru. The library is an indigenous climate adaptation strategy in the rainforest, and an effort to revive the …
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SEED DISPERSAL ROLE AND NUTRITIONAL STUDIES OF TWO SERRASALMID FRUGIVORE AMAZON FISH, BLACK PACU AND RED PACU
… are two endemic fruit and seed-eating Amazon fishes considered to be important seed dispersing agents in flooded forests. Dwindling populations coupled with the omnivorous feeding habits, rapid growth, high meat quality and commercial acceptance of these fishes has led to them becoming …
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Linking Spatial Patterns of Seed Dispersal and Plant Recruitment in a Neotropical Tree, Virola Calophylla (Myristicaceae)
… Virola calophylla (Myristicaceae), in the Peruvian Amazon. Although 17 bird species dispersed V. calophylla seeds, one primate species (the spider monkey, Ateles paniscus) dispersed 92% of all dispersed seeds. Dispersal agents responded differently to some tree and fruit traits, indicating …
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The role of culture in children’s sex-typed preferences for colours, toys, and affordances: A systems theory approach
… villages in the Lake Imiria region of the Peruvian Amazon; kastom villages in the mountains of Tanna Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific; children attending school in Lenakel town on Tanna Island; and in a large industrialised city in Australia. It also tested children’s colour …
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"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza
… cloistered Carmelite Convent in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon. Based on seventeen girls and over fourteen different creative writing activities, I explore how their writings reveal particular life histories in Latin America. From reimagining and re-writing stories and memories of their long …
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Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches
… a dense and remote wetlands complex in the Peruvian Amazon. A novel approach using harmonic analysis of dual frequency (C-band and L-band) backscatter time series is introduced and tested over a variety of tropical wetlands sites across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.</p> …
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Understanding tropical forest dynamics through remote sensing and deep learning
… forecast spatiotemporal patterns in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. Predicting the location of deforestation is difficult as it results from complex interactions within human-ecological systems but doing so may enable effective, adaptable prevention measures and conservation planning. The models, …
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The Creation of Metropolitan Amazonia: Genetic Consequences of Migration and Urbanization
… analyzed in a sample of 182 individuals from the Peruvian Amazonian city of Yurimaguas. The site of extensive pre-Columbian and modern migratory fluctuation, contemporary Yurimaguas is characterized by considerable population diversity. Individually unique migratory and demographic profiles were …