Oliver T Coomes

Datos Biográficos

ID189123
NOMBREOliver T Coomes
NOMBRESOliver T
APELLIDOCoomes
FIRMACOOMES O T
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-8220-8758
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS60
TOTAL DE CITAS844
TOTAL COMO AUTOR60
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1992
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H11

  • Impacts of Social Assistance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities

    Open AccessYoshito Takasaki, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2026

    Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance affected people's travel to cities by riverboat to collect cash assistance in distinct ways, depending o…

  • Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species

    Open AccessYoshito Takasaki, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2025Referencias: 66

    The promise of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for conservation policy depends on how pervasively ILK is held among local people. In the Peruvian Amazon, we conducted a landscape-scale concordance analysis between (1) ILK for game, timber, and fish species collected by the largest representative ILK survey as yet undertaken in tropical forests, and (2) remotely sensed land cover as proxies for species habitat. From our survey among 4000 hous…

  • Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests

    Open AccessCamilo Alejo, Manuel Ortega et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Local land use emerges from peoples’ worldviews and values regarding nature. In neotropical forest landscapes, largely inhabited by Indigenous peoples, exploring how Indigenous land use and underlying values may converge with global values such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation may provide lessons to achieve equitable ecological and social outcomes. However, most studies have focused on exploring the influence of Indigenous la…

  • Covid-19 y medidas de protección adoptadas en comunidades rurales amazónicas durante los primeros meses de la pandemia

    Open AccessChristian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki et al.ARTICLERevista Peruana de Medicina…2024

    Implications. Identifying the factors that contributed to contagion and the barriers to the adoption of protective measures in rural Amazonian populations will help to face future pandemics

  • Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions

    Open AccessDominic A Martin, Jorge C Llopis et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Shifting cultivation remains an important land system in many tropical landscapes, but transitions away from shifting cultivation are increasingly common. So far, our knowledge on the social–economic and environmental drivers and consequences of such shifting cultivation transitions is incomplete, focusing on certain transitions, drivers, consequences or regions. Here, we use an archetype approach, validated through systematically identified lite…

  • Tropical forest environments provide insurance against Covid-19

    Open AccessYoshito Takasaki, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023

    Research prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the rural poor often turn to wild resources to cope with adverse shocks. We report on the first study addressing natural insurance against health shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on riverine communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. We consider the most devastating shock people may experience, the death of a close family member. Using data from an in-person survey o…

  • The Academic Job Market in U.S. Geography and the Business Cycle

    Oliver T Coomes, Christian Abizaid et al.ARTICLEThe Professional Geographer2022

    The Great Recession of 2007–2009 had profound effects on all sectors of the U.S. economy. In this article we assess the relationship between the academic job market in U.S. geography and the business cycle. Specifically, we examine the responsiveness of the job market to the business cycle since the early 1970s, the impacts of the Great Recession on hiring, and how hiring networks changed with the recession. For our analyses we draw on data from …

  • Covid-19 information and self-protective behaviors among rural communities in tropical forests

    Open AccessYoshito Takasaki, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our findings call for improved media access to better manage pandemics in rural areas, especially among remote Indigenous communities

  • Sparing of Amazonian old-growth forests with floodplain access

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Referencias: 8

  • What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru

    Open AccessCamila Flórez Bossio, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 23

  • Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards

    Open AccessJennifer C Langill, Christian Abizaid et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 27

  • Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Margaret Kalácska et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Recent studies point to a rapid increase in small-scale deforestation in Amazonia. Where people live along the rivers of the basin, customary shifting cultivation creates a zone of secondary forest, orchards and crop fields around communities in what was once was old-growth terra firme forest. Visible from satellite imagery as a narrow but extensive band of forest disturbance along rivers, this zone is often considered as having been deforested. …

  • What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Yuanyu Cheng et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021

  • The Lower Ucayali River in Prehistory

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Christian Abizaid et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2021Referencias: 41

    Published evidence of prehistoric settlement from the lowlands of Amazonian Peru is sufficiently scarce to perpetuate debates over the presence and impact of early populations in western Amazonia. In this paper we review the cultural prehistory of the Lower Ucayali River, assess the presence of archeological sites and recovered artifacts, and describe a promising new site (Suni Caño) which may have been the chiefdom seat of the late prehistoric C…

  • Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    A growing number of studies point to the depletion of flora and fauna along rivers of the Brazilian Amazon but the status of wild resources over large areas in Western Amazonia remains poorly known. In this paper we report on findings from the Peruvian Amazon based on the first large-scale community survey that uses local ecological knowledge to assess the presence of indicator species and expected harvest yields of game, fish and timber along fo…

  • Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River

    Open AccessM Comptour, Ariane Cosiaux et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 29

    Climate-driven environmental changes bring new risks but also opportunities to populations living along the world's major rivers. Based on ethnoecological fieldwork, in this paper we examine how people living in the cuvette centrale of the Congo basin have adopted flood-recession agriculture on islands in the Congo River, taking advantage of a secular shift since the 1980s in the hydrological regime of the Congo River. Analyses of the hydrologica…

  • Protected Areas Fund Rural Household Dispersal to Urban Areas in Riverine Amazonia

    Open AccessGeorgina Gregory, Oliver T CoomesARTICLEHuman Ecology2019

  • Crisis restoration’ in post-frontier tropical environments

    Open AccessSarah Jane Wilson, Oliver T CoomesARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 15

  • Increasing expansion of large-scale crop production onto deforested land in sub-Andean South America

    Open AccessJordan Graesser, Navin Ramankutty et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    A combination of high commodity crop prices, rising global food demand, and technological advances has transformed the scale of global crop production. Farming in South America is a prime example, where large-scale cash crops, such as soy, have transformed the land use dynamics at the forest frontier. We evaluate this transformation in sub-Andean South America by estimating crop and forest cover and detecting individual cropland field parcels usi…

  • Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Bradford L Barham et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Citada por: 5Referencias: 9

  • In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis

    Sébastien Breau, Brian Toy et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

    In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…

  • Rural Social Networks along Amazonian Rivers

    Open AccessChristian Abizaid, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2018Citada por: 7Referencias: 73

    Research on Amazonian communities has focussed more often on rural‐urban linkages than on links among rural communities. This is unsurprising, given the low density of population, limited intercommunity commerce, and importance of direct city‐market relations. Social relations among rural communities are also important in shaping rural livelihoods and lifeways. We report on the findings of a large‐scale census of communities in the Napo River bas…

  • What fate for swidden agriculture under land constraint in tropical forests? Lessons from a long-term study in an Amazonian peasant community

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 14

  • Seed Sharing in Amazonian Indigenous Rain Forest Communities

    Open AccessChristian Abizaid, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2016

  • Environmental and market determinants of economic orientation among rain forest communities

    Open AccessOliver T Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2016