Stephen G Perz

Biographic Data

ID79437
NAMEStephen G Perz
GIVEN NAMESStephen G
FAMILY NAMEPerz
SIGNATUREPERZ S G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
ORCID0000-0002-7922-6672
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS457
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX12

  • Extended families and demographic explanations for land use-cover change in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessJulia Corrêa Cortés, Álvaro De Oliveira D''Antona et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2024References: 37

  • Gobernanza de proyectos de infraestructura

    Stephen G Perz, Stephen Perz et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Latin…2024References: 55

    Las desigualdades sociales en América Latina siguen siendo evidentes con respecto a los derechos sobre la tierra y la tenencia de recursos. Los proyectos de infraestructura constituyen un elemento clave de las políticas que sirven para mantener tales desigualdades, porque la planificación de la infraestructura está dominada por poderosos intereses y excluye a las partes interesadas subalternas. Esto ha motivado un enfoque en temas de gobernanza d…

  • Political ecology explanations for ineffective environmental governance for sustainability in the Amazon

    Open AccessPilar Morales-Giner, Martina Laura Speranza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Ecology2023Cited by: 1

    There is an extensive literature on environmental governance, which refers to multi-stakeholder processes to arrive at collective decisions about how natural resources will be managed. Recent work on environmental governance has focused on outcomes in terms of social-environmental sustainability. However, questions remain about the effectiveness of environmental governance in practice for yielding sustainable social or environmental outcomes. In …

  • Primary modes of tree mortality in southwestern Amazon forests

    Open AccessÉgon Fabricio de Castro Lima, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2022

    Tree mortality rates and the modes of tree death have recently been extensively investigated in the Amazon. However, efforts to describe these processes have not been well distributed across the basin. No study has yet investigated in depth tree mortality process in the unique low, open, bamboo-dominated forests of southwestern Amazonia, a region with a distinct climate and the epicenter of recent severe drought events. Here, we investigated the …

  • Seeing the broader picture

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Elsa Mendoza et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 1References: 8

  • The wisdom of hindsight

    Open AccessAlexandra N Sabo, Marliz Arteaga et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    The planning and implementation of infrastructure projects is a long-term enterprise that involves debates over the many positive and negative impacts. Previous work has examined questions about conditions for effective environmental governance of infrastructure, but has typically focused on individual projects and short time frames. We therefore pursued an historical approach to environmental governance of infrastructure projects across multiple…

  • The Unexpected Amazon

    Open AccessStephen G PerzARTICLELatin American Research Review2022

    This essay reviews the following works:Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People. By Michael F. Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 321. $70.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780804787086

  • Roads, deforestation and the mitigating effect of the Chico Mendes extractive reserve in the southwestern Amazon

    Open AccessEdelin Jean Milien, Karla Da Silva Rocha et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2021

    Implementation of protected areas is a good strategy to reduce deforestation. Reducing forest cover loss is critical to climate change mitigation, especially in the Amazon. Various types of protected areas have been established to conserve biodiversity and reduce forest cover loss. Deforestation in the Amazon is mostly caused by highway paving. This raises questions about the effectiveness of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER), a conserva…

  • The contributions of transboundary networks to environmental governance

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Stephen Perz et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2021Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Environmental crimes in extractive activities

    Open AccessJohanna Espín, Johanna Espín Moscoso et al.ARTICLEThe Extractive Industries and…2020References: 8

  • Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities

    Open AccessSabina Cerruto Ribeiro, N Galia Selaya et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2020

    Ribeiro, S. C., N. G. Selaya, S. G. Perz, F. Brown, F. A. Schmidt, R. C. Silva and F. Lima. 2020. Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil. Ecology and Society 25(3):5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11665-250305

  • Future directions for applications of political economy in environmental and resource sociology

    Stephen G Perz, Heather Covington et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Sociology2018Cited by: 1References: 45

    Environmental and resource sociology has long featured political economy perspectives among its diverse theoretical retinue. Whether based on treadmills, modernization or other frameworks, political economy perspectives have influenced a growing body of environmental and resource sociology research. Recent reviews of environmental and resource sociology offer broad evaluations of the evolving state of the field, highlighting political economy the…

  • Land system science in Latin America

    Open AccessBoillat, Fabiano M Scarpa et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2017Cited by: 11References: 7

  • Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia

    Open AccessN Galia Selaya, Pieter A Zuidema et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017

    Selaya, N. G., P. A. Zuidema, C. Baraloto, V. A. Vos, R. J. W. Brienen, N. Pitman, F. Brown, A. E. Duchelle, A. Araujo-Murakami, L. A. Oliveira Carillo, G. H. Vasquez Colomo, S. Meo Chupinagua, H. Fuentes Nay, and S. Perz. 2017. Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 22(2):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09297-220240

  • Ideal type theories and concrete cases in land science

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Johanna Espín et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016References: 16

  • Private and communal lands? The ramifications of ambiguous resource tenure and regional integration in Northern Bolivia

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Stephen Perz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2014

    Major integration initiatives such as large-scale infrastructure projects are moving forward in Latin America, creating the conditions theorized by the ‘evolutionary theory of land rights’ (ETLR) for the shift from communal to private individual tenure. This however assumes a clear distinction between communal and private individual tenure that avoids ambiguities such as those arising from contrasts between de jure tenure rights and de facto prac…

  • Private and communal lands? The ramifications of ambiguous resource tenure and regional integration in Northern Bolivia

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Stephen Perz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2014Cited by: 1

    Major integration initiatives such as large-scale infrastructure projects are moving forward in Latin America, creating the conditions theorized by the ‘evolutionary theory of land rights’ (ETLR) for the shift from communal to private individual tenure. This however assumes a clear distinction between communal and private individual tenure that avoids ambiguities such as those arising from contrasts between de jure tenure rights and de facto prac…

  • Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia

    Open AccessC Baraloto, Paula Alverga et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014

    Baraloto, C., P. Alverga, S. Baéz Quispe, G. Barnes, N. Bejar Chura, I. Brasil da Silva, W. Castro, H. Da Souza, I. De Souza Moll, J. Del Alcazar Chilo, H. Duenas Linares, J. Garate Quispe, D. Kenji, H. Medeiros, C. A. Rockwell, A. Shenkin, M. Silveira, J. Southworth, G. Vasquez, and S. Perz. 2014. Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 19(4): 56. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-0691…

  • Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Youliang Qiu et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2013Cited by: 3References: 39

  • Path dependency and contingent causation in policy adoption and land use plans

    Open AccessAndrea Chavez, Andrea B Chavez et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2013Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Agro-terrorism? The causes and consequences of the appearance of witch’s broom disease in cocoa plantations of southern Bahia, Brazil”

    Open AccessMarcellus M Caldas, Stephen G Perz et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2013Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Regional Integration and Household Resilience

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Martha Rosero et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2013Cited by: 2References: 30

  • Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

    Stephen Aldrich, Robert Toovey Walker et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2012Cited by: 20References: 76

    Land change in the Amazon is driven by numerous factors including fiscal incentives, infrastructure, transportation costs, migration, and household decision making. Largely missing from the story to date, however, is the role of contentious social processes, including contention over land resources. By employing a case study of land conflict over a largeholding in southeastern Pará, Brazil, and a regional-scale statistical model, we describe cont…

  • Social Mobilization in Protest of Trans-boundary Highway Projects

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Stephen PerzARTICLEDevelopment and Change2012Cited by: 1References: 28

    Trans-boundary highways have increasingly complemented trade agreements as instruments of global economic integration, and both have incurred political protest. This article presents a comparative analysis of two recently proposed trans-boundary highway projects, the Trans-Texas Corridor from Mexico through Texas to Oklahoma in the USA, and the Inter-Oceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon where Bolivia, Brazil and Peru meet. The analysis focu…

  • Adoption of Policy Incentives and Land Use

    Open AccessAndrea Birgit Chavez, Andrea Chavez et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2012Cited by: 2References: 40