Ana C Luz
Biographic Data
| ID | 151223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana C Luz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana C |
| FAMILY NAME | Luz |
| SIGNATURE | LUZ A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3466-2929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities
Green (and blue) spaces receive attention as important components of cities that can help to mitigate the effects of climate change, support biodiversity and improve public health. Green space planning aims to transform cities towards urban sustainability and resilience. In a longitudinal study, representatives from eleven European municipalities that had previously been interviewed in 2014 were re-interviewed in 2020–2021 on changes in urban gre…
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, we argue that transformative change requires the foregrounding of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in biodiversity policy. We support this argument with fo…
Response to “Practice what you preach
Reyes-García, Victoria; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz; Benyei, Petra; Bussmann, Rainer; García-del-Amo, David; Hanazaki, Natalia; Luz, Ana Catarina; McElwee, Pamela; Meretsky, Vicky J.; Molnár, Zsolt; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Salpeteur, Matthieu; Brondizio, Eduardo
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
Urban energy transitions and rural income generation
Sub-Saharan Africa’s charcoal sector is rarely considered a mechanism for rural development or poverty alleviation; instead, current regulations often marginalise rural producers. The development of a sustainable sector, that does not further marginalise rural populations, is restricted by limited understanding of these stakeholders. We assess the heterogeneity of rural producers supplying two differentially sized urban charcoal markets in Mozamb…
High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Considering the ways biocultural diversity helps enforce the urban green infrastructure in times of urban transformation
How Does Cultural Change Affect Indigenous Peoples' Hunting Activity? An Empirical Study Among the Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon
Wildlife hunting is an important economic activity that contributes to the subsistence of indigenous peoples and the maintenance of their cultural identity. Changes in indigenous peoples' ways of life affect the way they manage the ecosystems and resources around them, including wildlife populations. This paper explores the relationship between cultural change, or detachment from traditional culture, and hunting behaviour among the Tsimane', an i…
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge
Exploring Indigenous Landscape Classification across Different Dimensions
Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based on their own understandings of how landscape should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples’ understandings of the landscape they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects and interviews to describe how an Amazonian group of hunter-horticulturalists, the Tsimane’, classify and perceive the importance of different elemen…
Cultural Change and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Among the different factors associated to change in traditional ecological knowledge, the study of the relations between cultural change and traditional ecological knowledge has received scan and inadequate scholarly attention. Using data from indigenous peoples of an Amazonian society facing increasing exposure to the mainstream Bolivian society, we analyzed the relation between traditional ecological knowledge, proxied with individual plant use…
Indigenous land reconfiguration and fragmented institutions
Are Ecologically Important Tree Species the Most Useful? A Case Study from Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon
Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society
Secular trends on traditional ecological knowledge
Presence and Purpose of Nonindigenous Peoples on Indigenous Lands
Integration into the market economy changes indigenous people's use of land and resources. We study one pathway leading to integration of indigenous peoples to the market economy: the entrance of nonindigenous peoples into lands inhabited by indigenous populations. We analyzed data from a survey (n = 779) in 87 Tsimane’ villages, an Amazonian society. We assessed the entrance of traders, loggers, cattle ranchers, highland colonist farmers, and ot…
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge
Indigenous land reconfiguration and fragmented institutions
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, we argue that transformative change requires the foregrounding of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in biodiversity policy. We support this argument with fo…
Are Ecologically Important Tree Species the Most Useful? A Case Study from Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon
High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
Urban energy transitions and rural income generation
Sub-Saharan Africa’s charcoal sector is rarely considered a mechanism for rural development or poverty alleviation; instead, current regulations often marginalise rural producers. The development of a sustainable sector, that does not further marginalise rural populations, is restricted by limited understanding of these stakeholders. We assess the heterogeneity of rural producers supplying two differentially sized urban charcoal markets in Mozamb…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Exploring Indigenous Landscape Classification across Different Dimensions
Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based on their own understandings of how landscape should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples’ understandings of the landscape they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects and interviews to describe how an Amazonian group of hunter-horticulturalists, the Tsimane’, classify and perceive the importance of different elemen…
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Presence and Purpose of Nonindigenous Peoples on Indigenous Lands
Integration into the market economy changes indigenous people's use of land and resources. We study one pathway leading to integration of indigenous peoples to the market economy: the entrance of nonindigenous peoples into lands inhabited by indigenous populations. We analyzed data from a survey (n = 779) in 87 Tsimane’ villages, an Amazonian society. We assessed the entrance of traders, loggers, cattle ranchers, highland colonist farmers, and ot…
Considering the ways biocultural diversity helps enforce the urban green infrastructure in times of urban transformation
Response to “Practice what you preach
Reyes-García, Victoria; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz; Benyei, Petra; Bussmann, Rainer; García-del-Amo, David; Hanazaki, Natalia; Luz, Ana Catarina; McElwee, Pamela; Meretsky, Vicky J.; Molnár, Zsolt; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Salpeteur, Matthieu; Brondizio, Eduardo
Presence and Purpose of Nonindigenous Peoples on Indigenous Lands
Integration into the market economy changes indigenous people's use of land and resources. We study one pathway leading to integration of indigenous peoples to the market economy: the entrance of nonindigenous peoples into lands inhabited by indigenous populations. We analyzed data from a survey (n = 779) in 87 Tsimane’ villages, an Amazonian society. We assessed the entrance of traders, loggers, cattle ranchers, highland colonist farmers, and ot…
Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society
Secular trends on traditional ecological knowledge
Cultural Change and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Among the different factors associated to change in traditional ecological knowledge, the study of the relations between cultural change and traditional ecological knowledge has received scan and inadequate scholarly attention. Using data from indigenous peoples of an Amazonian society facing increasing exposure to the mainstream Bolivian society, we analyzed the relation between traditional ecological knowledge, proxied with individual plant use…
Indigenous land reconfiguration and fragmented institutions
Are Ecologically Important Tree Species the Most Useful? A Case Study from Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon
How Does Cultural Change Affect Indigenous Peoples' Hunting Activity? An Empirical Study Among the Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon
Wildlife hunting is an important economic activity that contributes to the subsistence of indigenous peoples and the maintenance of their cultural identity. Changes in indigenous peoples' ways of life affect the way they manage the ecosystems and resources around them, including wildlife populations. This paper explores the relationship between cultural change, or detachment from traditional culture, and hunting behaviour among the Tsimane', an i…
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge
Exploring Indigenous Landscape Classification across Different Dimensions
Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based on their own understandings of how landscape should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples’ understandings of the landscape they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects and interviews to describe how an Amazonian group of hunter-horticulturalists, the Tsimane’, classify and perceive the importance of different elemen…
Considering the ways biocultural diversity helps enforce the urban green infrastructure in times of urban transformation
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Urban energy transitions and rural income generation
Sub-Saharan Africa’s charcoal sector is rarely considered a mechanism for rural development or poverty alleviation; instead, current regulations often marginalise rural producers. The development of a sustainable sector, that does not further marginalise rural populations, is restricted by limited understanding of these stakeholders. We assess the heterogeneity of rural producers supplying two differentially sized urban charcoal markets in Mozamb…
High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, we argue that transformative change requires the foregrounding of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in biodiversity policy. We support this argument with fo…
Response to “Practice what you preach
Reyes-García, Victoria; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz; Benyei, Petra; Bussmann, Rainer; García-del-Amo, David; Hanazaki, Natalia; Luz, Ana Catarina; McElwee, Pamela; Meretsky, Vicky J.; Molnár, Zsolt; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Salpeteur, Matthieu; Brondizio, Eduardo
Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities
Green (and blue) spaces receive attention as important components of cities that can help to mitigate the effects of climate change, support biodiversity and improve public health. Green space planning aims to transform cities towards urban sustainability and resilience. In a longitudinal study, representatives from eleven European municipalities that had previously been interviewed in 2014 were re-interviewed in 2020–2021 on changes in urban gre…
Geography (15 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Amazon rainforest (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works)