E F Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 42294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E F Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | E F |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORAN E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5153-545X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 853 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Participatory convergence: Four cases for conducting convergent research using community-based approaches
Told, but Not Showed: Social-environmental impacts of hydropower in Brazilian press
This study analyses how Brazilian media cover the socio-environmental impacts of hydropower plants. Using critical discourse analysis, we examined 184 news articles from Brazil’s main outlets. The results reveal coverage focused on economics and politics, with little explanation of environmental and social impacts. Additionally, the media reinforces colonial narratives in its portrayal of traditional communities. We conclude that this coverage li…
Cyclic Events as “Crises”: Media Coverage of Supply Shortages, Rationing, and Blackouts in Brazil from 2001–2021
This study examines mainstream TV coverage of blackouts and energy rationing in Brazil, which has experienced recurring energy supply shortages since 2001. We examine how the relationship between the press and the central government influences coverage by analyzing three periods of energy shortages, corresponding to the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (center-right), Dilma Rousseff (center-left), and Jair Bolsonaro (far-right). The c…
Challenges and opportunities for the governance of hydropower
Adoção de tecnologias e inovações nas práticas agrícolas na cacauicultura na região da Transamazônica, Pará
Este artigo analisou a adoção de tecnologias e inovações nas práticas agrícolas da cacauicultura na região da Transamazônica, no estado do Pará, Brasil, um dos principais polos de produção cacaueira do país. A pesquisa foi baseada em dados coletados por meio de questionário estruturado aplicado a produtores de quatro municípios da região no ano de 2023, abordando aspectos como sistema de cultivo, uso de irrigação, mecanização, adubação, calagem, …
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States
The transition to a more sustainable energy system must consider public perceptions of energy sources and the influences that shape them. This study compares support for renewable and non-renewable sources that make up the energy grid in Brazil and the United States (US), two nations with different energy mixes, political histories, and media systems. Through national surveys, we assess how different national energy configurations impact attitude…
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism
Hydropower development in the Amazon has accelerated under public and private incentives, aiming to promote economic growth, environmental conservation, renewable energy, and social equity within a sustainable development agenda. However, recent studies show significant negative impacts on local communities and ecosystems, raising concerns about hydropower’s true contribution to sustainability. Despite increasing awareness, research has largely o…
Consequências da construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte para o saneamento básico na cidade de Altamira
A implantação da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, na região de Altamira-Pará, foi atrelada a compensações e condicionantes socioambientais para que seu projeto e construção fossem aprovados. Entre essas condicionantes estava a garantia da universalização do saneamento básico na cidade de Altamira. A pesquisa analisou se tal condicionante foi efetivamente cumprida, com base na análise da expansão dos serviços de saneamento básico, ou seja, os ser…
Poverty–Food Insecurity Nexus in the Post-Construction Context of a Large Hydropower Dam in the Brazilian Amazon
Within the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, large hydropower dams are positioned as a sustainable energy source, notwithstanding their adverse impacts on societies and ecosystems. This study contributed to ongoing discussions about the persistence of critical social issues, even after the investments of large amounts of resources in areas impacted by the construction of large hydropower dams. Our study focused on food insecurity and evaluated…
Towards energy justice and energy sovereignty: Participatory co-design of off-grid systems in the Brazilian Amazon
Participatory processes that emphasize energy justice and energy sovereignty are essential to provide electricity for those in need in just and sustainable ways. For isolated, off-grid communities, access to electricity remains a significant challenge, especially in the Global South. Participation is critical to ensuring the viability and sustainability of off-grid energy systems in remote areas, as communities need to be self-reliant in managing…
Multidimensional and multitemporal energy injustices: Exploring the downstream impacts of the Belo Monte hydropower dam in the Amazon
Up close, it gets worse: Comparison of hydropower perceptions between impacted populations in the Amazon and those of the Brazilian population as a whole
In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, addressing the global demand for affordable and clean energy is paramount. While hydropower is often perceived as meeting both criteria, its true merits are subject to debate. This paper delves into energy preferences within Brazil, with a specific focus on hydropower, the nation's predominant energy source. It takes on a unique challenge previously unexplored in the literature by investigating…
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
The impact of hydropower dam construction on malaria incidence: Space-time analysis in the Brazilian Amazon
During the first two decades of the 21st century, Brazil carried out massive public investments on infrastructure projects, such as large hydropower dams, with potential impact on population health. Here we characterize local malaria transmission and its potential spread during the construction of three large hydropower dams in the Brazilian Amazon. We focus on Porto Velho (PVH), in Rondônia state, where the Santo Antônio and Jirau dams were buil…
Mapping crop producer perceptions: The role of global drivers on local agricultural land use in Brazil
Agricultural trade and climate change have altered land cover and land use worldwide. For example, the recent growth of international soybean demand has been associated with 1.3 Mha primary Amazon forest loss and up to 13-fold increase in double-cropping areas in Brazil. Many studies have tried to understand which and how global and local drivers affect deforestation and agricultural intensification processes at the landscape level, yet few have …
Changes in Social Capital Associated with the Construction of the Belo Monte Dam: Comparing a Resettled and a Host Community
Nations in the Global South have increasingly embraced large hydropower. Hydropower development typically involves the displacement and resettlement of entire communities and has a range of social and ecological impacts. Some communities become the operational center for the dam construction, as well as host new neighborhoods of resettlers. One of the less-studied impacts of dams is the potential loss of social capital both in resettled and host …
Pretend Participation: Procedural Injustices in the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Nurturing the Forest: Strategies of Native Amazonians
In this chapter, the author examines shifting views, focusing on recent and ongoing studies that seek to discover folk and native Amazonians cognitive and behavioural treatment, and transformation, of the environment within which they live. The image most people still hold of heterogenous forests with hundreds of species per hectare is not wrong, but it fails to describe adequately most of the Amazon Basin. While it is attractive to think of the …
In-stream turbines for rethinking hydropower development in the Amazon basin
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
Three decades of land-use and land-cover change in mountain regions of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Changing how we build hydropower infrastructure for the common good: Lessons from the Brazilian Amazon
Infrastructure projects like roads and hydroelectric dams are meant to help achieve national economic development goals in Brazil and the Amazon. In the case of hydropower dams, they have a very specific goal: that of producing energy from water sources. Unfortunately, that objective is frequently associated with environmental and social damages that result from the construction of dams. In the Amazon these damages are more serious in terms of th…
Os novos desafios do desenvolvimento na região amazônica
Land-Use Changes in Distant Places: Implementation of a Telecoupled Agent-Based Model
International agricultural trade has changed land uses in trading countries, altering global food security and environmental sustainability. Studies have concluded that local land-use drivers are largely from global sources (e.g., trade increases deforestation in exporting countries). However, little is known about how these local land-use changes a ect distant locations, namely the feedback between them. Yet these distant impacts and feedbacks c…
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the myths
Forest transitions: Towards a global understanding of land use change
Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World
Liu, J., V. Hull, M. Batistella, R. DeFries, T. Dietz, F. Fu, T. W. Hertel, R. C. Izaurralde, E. F. Lambin, S. Li, L. A. Martinelli, W. J. McConnell, E. F. Moran, R. Naylor, Z. Ouyang, K. R. Polenske, A. Reenberg, G. de Miranda Rocha, C. S. Simmons, P. H. Verburg, P. M. Vitousek, F. Zhang, and C. Zhu. 2013. Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology and Society 18(2): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05873-180226
Human Adaptive Strategies in Amazonian Blackwater Ecosystems
Blackwater ecosystems of Amazonia represent extreme nutrient-poor conditions that differ from those found in other regions of the Amazon. The tendency to contrast mainly the floodplain (várzea) and the upland forests (terra firme) has made it possible to overlook significant differences present within the Amazonian terra firme. These differences can be important in understanding human adaptation, particularly at the extremes of the nutrient-poorl…
Drivers of land change: Human-environment interactions and the Atlantic forest transition in the Paraíba Valley, Brazil
A Place against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Place against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Paul Sillitoe. London: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 438 pp
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
Using and shaping the land: A long-term perspective
Governing flows in telecoupled land systems
Human Adaptation to Arctic Zones
The study of human adaptation to polar areas has engaged scholars in many fields since the late nineteenth century. The first two scientific monographs on the Eskimo were published in 1888 (16,55), and were soon followed by useful reports (2, 39, 99, 110). Since then much work has been undertaken, and efforts at a synthesis are now under way. Tundra ecosystems were recently a focus of research efforts by the International Biological Program (IBP)…
Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil
1. Brazilian Indian policy: an historical overview Part I. The Economic History of the Brazilian Amazon, 1940 to 1970: 2. Development plans in the postwar period 3. The significance of the military coup of 1964 Part II. Contemporary Indian Policy in Brazil, 1970 to 1975: 4. The Villas Boas brothers and Indian policy in Brazil 5. Pacification expeditions along the Trans-Amazon highway network 6. The invasion of the Aripuana Indian Park 7. Indain p…
Roads and Dams: Infrastructure-Driven Transformations in the Brazilian Amazon
From the construction of the Trans-Amazon Highway in the 1970's to the current construction of the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world at Belo Monte, the Brazilian Amazon has experienced the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects. When announced, all these projects purported to be the means to achieve progress, national integration, and economic development. The outcomes after several decades are less clear: national indebtedness,…
People and Pixels 20 years later: The current data landscape and research trends blending population and environmental data
Socioeconomic changes and environmental policies as dimensions of regional land transitions in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science
This volume is concerned with the use of remote sensing in social science research. It offers some guidance for researchers and research sponsors in the form of reports of promising research information on the state of the technology and reflections on the challenges of linking social science and remotely sensed data. Chapters are included on land use and population dynamics modeling urban attributes famine early warning and health applications. …
Public policy implementation and basic sanitation issues associated with hydroelectric projects in the Brazilian Amazon: Altamira and the Belo Monte dam
Ecological, Anthropological, and Agronomic Research in the Amazon Basin
The Amazon was, until recently, one of those distant and unknown regions that excited the imagination but was largely irrelevant to the daily lives of scholars, policymakers, and the majority of Latin Americans. This is no longer the case. Developmentalists and disenfranchised people alike look to it as a vast resource area capable of yielding mineral, forestal, animal, and agrarian riches. Ecologists warn against the potential devastation of an …
The construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon and its consequences on regional rural labor
Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
The developmental cycle of domestic groups and Amazonian deforestation
It has been common to attribute tropical deforestation to population growth and/or migration. This paper finds that this is true only at large and aggregated spatial and temporal scales. When one examines regional-scaled processes, there are numberous mediating factors and more complex demographic processes that account for differences in rates of deforestation. Based upon three years of research in the Altamira region, Xingu Basin, Brazilian Ama…
The Use of Remotely Sensed Data in Rapid Rural Assessment
This article discusses how analysis of remotely sensed data can be applied in rapid rural assessment and how its application can expand the spatial analysis of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. It describes the methodological steps to carry out an LULC analysis based on Landsat Thematic Mapper image analysis under time and budget constraints. The article presents intra-and intercommunity comparisons of different LULC patterns. The discussion foc…
General and Theoretical: Politics of Social Research: An Inquiry into the Ethics and Responsibilites of Social Scientists. RALPH L. Beals
Estratégias de sobrevivência: O uso de recursos ao longo da rodovia Transamazônica
O presente trabalho descreve a utilização de recursos por uma população pioneira ao longo da rodovia Transamazônica e as mudanças resultantes no ambiente e no comportamento sócio-econômico dessa população
Applied Anthropology: Economy‐Wide Models and Development Planning. Charles R. Blitzer, Peter B. Clark , and Lance Taylor , eds
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil
1. Brazilian Indian policy: an historical overview Part I. The Economic History of the Brazilian Amazon, 1940 to 1970: 2. Development plans in the postwar period 3. The significance of the military coup of 1964 Part II. Contemporary Indian Policy in Brazil, 1970 to 1975: 4. The Villas Boas brothers and Indian policy in Brazil 5. Pacification expeditions along the Trans-Amazon highway network 6. The invasion of the Aripuana Indian Park 7. Indain p…
Appropriate Training for Input Into Agricultural Projects
I believe that some recent efforts to improve the training of anthropologists for work in agricultural development may be emphasizing the wrong skills. Here I will discuss the skills that appear to be commonly expected from the social scientist team member working on agricultural projects. If the training and skills developed by the social scientist do not effectively match the needs of production-oriented teams, it will be difficult to integrate…
General and Theoretical: The Frontier: Comparative Studies. Vol. 2. William W. Savage and Stephen I. Thompson
Extinction and Survival in Human Populations
Human Adaptation to Arctic Zones
The study of human adaptation to polar areas has engaged scholars in many fields since the late nineteenth century. The first two scientific monographs on the Eskimo were published in 1888 (16,55), and were soon followed by useful reports (2, 39, 99, 110). Since then much work has been undertaken, and efforts at a synthesis are now under way. Tundra ecosystems were recently a focus of research efforts by the International Biological Program (IBP)…
Developing the Amazon
A House of My Own: Social Organization in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru
A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories...an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos. American Anthropologist Whether or not one accepts Susan optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and …
The Evolution of Cape Verde's Agriculture
In this paper I will try to show that, while indeed drought has been a constant experience for the inhabitants of these islands, the severity of the current situation is also a result of the particular pattern of land use and land tenure brought and maintained by the Portuguese since 1460. These patterns brought about distortions in production and natural resource management and laid the basis for a system that seriously mismatched population and…
Developing the Amazon
Ecological, Anthropological, and Agronomic Research in the Amazon Basin
The Amazon was, until recently, one of those distant and unknown regions that excited the imagination but was largely irrelevant to the daily lives of scholars, policymakers, and the majority of Latin Americans. This is no longer the case. Developmentalists and disenfranchised people alike look to it as a vast resource area capable of yielding mineral, forestal, animal, and agrarian riches. Ecologists warn against the potential devastation of an …
Developing the Amazon
Developing the Amazon: The Social and Ecological Consequences of Government-Directed Colonization along Brazil's Transamazonian Highway
thetic values. John Painter advocates a broad, materialistic approach to landscape aesthetics. The concluding group of essays provides the only evident coherence in the book. These essays examine the relationship between people and place in everyday urban environments and make the important point that because conservation is chiefly a concern of the educated middle classes, the values that people from other social and economic groupings assign to…
Developing the Amazon
Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Underdeveloping the shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker pro…
Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainforest . Philip M. Fearnside
Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico. THOMAS E. SHERIDAN
Wenner-Gren Public Issues Panel Report
Report from the Social Transformation Panel
Report from the Panel on Social Transformations in Preindustrial and Industrializing Societies
Human Adaptive Strategies in Amazonian Blackwater Ecosystems
Blackwater ecosystems of Amazonia represent extreme nutrient-poor conditions that differ from those found in other regions of the Amazon. The tendency to contrast mainly the floodplain (várzea) and the upland forests (terra firme) has made it possible to overlook significant differences present within the Amazonian terra firme. These differences can be important in understanding human adaptation, particularly at the extremes of the nutrient-poorl…
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn
Geography (62 works) · Sociology (41 works) · Ecology (39 works) · Amazon rainforest (31 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Biology (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (23 works) · Economics (23 works) · Environmental Science (19 works)