Stephen G Perz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79437 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen G Perz |
| NOMBRES | Stephen G |
| APELLIDO | Perz |
| FIRMA | PERZ S G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7922-6672 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 457 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Extended families and demographic explanations for land use-cover change in the Brazilian Amazon
Gobernanza de proyectos de infraestructura
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
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
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
The wisdom of hindsight
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
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
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
Environmental crimes in extractive activities
Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities
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
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
Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia
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
Private and communal lands? The ramifications of ambiguous resource tenure and regional integration in Northern Bolivia
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
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
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
Path dependency and contingent causation in policy adoption and land use plans
Agro-terrorism? The causes and consequences of the appearance of witch’s broom disease in cocoa plantations of southern Bahia, Brazil”
Regional Integration and Household Resilience
Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation
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
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
Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers
Tropical deforestation remains a critical issue given its present rate and a widespread consensus regarding its implications for the global carbon cycle and biodiversity. Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest intact, tropical forest. This article addresses land cover change processes at household level in the Amazon basin, and to this end adapts a concept of domestic life cycle to the current…
Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon
Secondary Forest Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and the Refinement of Forest Transition Theory
This article examines forest change in the Brazilian Amazon in light of forest transition theory. We draw on satellite-based land cover data matched in a geographic information system (GIS) to census-based social and agricultural data for Brazilian municipalities at multiple time points. Subregions with distinct settlement histories serve as proxies for different stages along the forest transition, theorized to exhibit depletion of forest cover, …
Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon
Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change
This article addresses deforestation processes in the Amazon basin, using regression analysis to assess the impact of household structure and economic circumstances on land use decisions made by colonist farmers in the forest frontiers of Brazil. Unlike many previous regression-based studies, the methodology implemented analyzes behavior at the level of the individual property, using both survey data and information derived from the classificatio…
Contributions of Racial-Ethnic Reclassification and Demographic Processes to Indigenous Population Resurgence
In many Latin American countries, indigenous populations have recently exhibited rapid growth. Many scholars recognize that this indigenous population resurgence is due to a combination of demographic processes, such as births, deaths, and migration, as well as changing racial-ethnic identities. However, there is little quantitative data verifying the relative importance of these two types of processes for indigenous population growth. We seek to…
Land‐Cover and Land‐Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon
Tropical deforestation is a significant driver of global environmental change, given its impacts on the carbon cycle and biodiversity. Loss of the Amazon forest, the focus of this article, is of particular concern because of the size and the rapid rate at which the forest is being converted to agricultural use. In this article, we identify what has been the most important driver of deforestation in a specific colonization frontier in the Brazilia…
Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation
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…
The Changing Social Contexts of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Objective. This article reviews changes in the social contexts of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from the 1970s to the 1990s, moving from the household to the global level. Methods. I draw on satellite imagery, state publications, farm surveys, ethnographic field work, and policy analyses for a comparative analysis that shows how land cover, agriculture, demographics, politics, and markets have changed over time. Results. Alterations in th…
Doing it for Themselves
Social Determinants and Land Use Correlates of Agricultural Technology Adoption in a Forest Frontier
Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience
Recent years have witnessed an expansion in international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects with the goal of achieving global economic integration. We focus on one such project, the Inter-Oceanic Highway in the "MAP" region, a trinational frontier where Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru meet in the southwestern Amazon. We adopt a resilience approach as an integrative framework to understand various types of road-paving impacts. We focus o…
From Sustainable Development to 'Productive Conservation
This paper assesses arguments for the 'productive conservation' thesis, which contends that family farming in tropical regions such as the Amazon can generate significant income and assets while maintaining forest cover. Data come from a 1996 survey of households in Uruará, a community along the Transamazon highway in Brazil. A descriptive analysis shows that households engaged in intensification, diversification, and forestry, proposed as import…
Land system science in Latin America
Rubber tapper identities
Beyond Population and Environment
Intraregional Migration, Direct Action Land Reform, and New Land Settlements in the Brazilian Amazon
This article analyses migration histories of residents in rural settlements of the Brazilian Amazon that resulted from direct action land reform (DALR), which involves organised land occupations. Our analysis evaluates two hypotheses. The 'urban migration' expectation asserts that urban experience is important for DALR participation, which links rural and urban areas via migration for land occupations. The 'DALR efficacy' hypothesis argues that m…
Social determinants of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Are Agricultural Production and Forest Conservation Compatible? Agricultural Diversity, Agricultural Incomes and Primary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon
The Rural Exodus in the Context of Economic Crisis, Globalization and Reform in Brazil
This article considers the rural exodus in Brazil between 1980 and 1991 a period of economic recession globalization of agriculture and neoliberal reforms. In this context Brazil witnessed renewed capital penetration into agriculture sustained employment growth in commerce and services and rapid rural natural increase. As a result rural populations in all regions of Brazil experienced losses due to net migration between 1980 and 1991 at a pace of…
The Quality of Urban Environments in the Brazilian Amazon
The environment as a determinant of child mortality among migrants in frontier areas of Pará and RondÔnia, Brazil, 1980
Unofficial Road Building in the Amazon
Roads have manifold social and environmental impacts, including regional development, social conflicts and habitat fragmentation. 'Road ecology' has emerged as an approach to evaluate the various ecological and hydrological impacts of roads. This article aims to complement road ecology by examining the socio-spatial processes of road building itself. Focusing on the Brazilian Amazon, a heavily-studied context due to forest fragmentation by roads,…
Reformulating Modernization-Based Environmental Social Theories
While modernization theory has been largely abandoned in the social sciences, its influence is evident in environmental Kuznets curves, ecological modernization, and forest transition theory. These environmental social theories have consequently undergone criticism and varying degrees of reformulation that moved them away from modernization trappings, and in the process opened them to greater influence from theoretical perspectives in other socia…
Loggers and Forest Fragmentation
Although a large literature now exists on the drivers of tropical deforestation, less is known about its spatial manifestation. This is a critical shortcoming in our knowledge base since the spatial pattern of land-cover change and forest fragmentation, in particular, strongly affect biodiversity. The purpose of this article is to consider emergent patterns of road networks, the initial proximate cause of fragmentation in tropical forest frontier…
Optimal Foraging by Patch and Prey Selection in Thamnophis Sirtalis Similis
Patch and prey selections by blue-striped garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis similis) were examined in a series of simultaneous choice situations. We presented snakes with choices between small or large patches (defined by the size of the bowl in which they foraged) containing either small or large prey fish and recorded subject choices, attacks made, and capture success. T. s. similis appeared to optimize energy investments by discriminating bet…
The environment as a determinant of child mortality among migrants in frontier areas of Pará and RondÔnia, Brazil, 1980
Who Are Brazil’s Indígenas? Contributions of Census Data Analysis to Anthropological Demography of Indigenous Populations
With the goal of fostering discussion of anthropological demography, we assess Brazil's indigenous population using data from the 1991 census. We assert that an anthropological demography that includes the use of census data can help maximize the validity and reliability of social research. Despite problems with the conceptualization, coverage, and reporting of indigenas in Brazil's 1991 census, the first part of the analysis shows that census-ba…
The Rural Exodus in the Context of Economic Crisis, Globalization and Reform in Brazil
This article considers the rural exodus in Brazil between 1980 and 1991, a period of economic recession, globalization of agriculture, and neoliberal reforms. In this context, Brazil witnessed renewed capital penetration into agriculture, sustained employment growth in commerce and services, and rapid rural natural increase. As a result, rural populations in all regions of Brazil experienced losses due to net migration between 1980 and 1991 at a …
The Rural Exodus in the Context of Economic Crisis, Globalization and Reform in Brazil
This article considers the rural exodus in Brazil between 1980 and 1991 a period of economic recession globalization of agriculture and neoliberal reforms. In this context Brazil witnessed renewed capital penetration into agriculture sustained employment growth in commerce and services and rapid rural natural increase. As a result rural populations in all regions of Brazil experienced losses due to net migration between 1980 and 1991 at a pace of…
The Quality of Urban Environments in the Brazilian Amazon
Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon
From Sustainable Development to 'Productive Conservation
This paper assesses arguments for the 'productive conservation' thesis, which contends that family farming in tropical regions such as the Amazon can generate significant income and assets while maintaining forest cover. Data come from a 1996 survey of households in Uruará, a community along the Transamazon highway in Brazil. A descriptive analysis shows that households engaged in intensification, diversification, and forestry, proposed as import…
Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon
Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers
Tropical deforestation remains a critical issue given its present rate and a widespread consensus regarding its implications for the global carbon cycle and biodiversity. Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest intact, tropical forest. This article addresses land cover change processes at household level in the Amazon basin, and to this end adapts a concept of domestic life cycle to the current…
The Changing Social Contexts of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Objective. This article reviews changes in the social contexts of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from the 1970s to the 1990s, moving from the household to the global level. Methods. I draw on satellite imagery, state publications, farm surveys, ethnographic field work, and policy analyses for a comparative analysis that shows how land cover, agriculture, demographics, politics, and markets have changed over time. Results. Alterations in th…
Secondary Forest Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and the Refinement of Forest Transition Theory
This article examines forest change in the Brazilian Amazon in light of forest transition theory. We draw on satellite-based land cover data matched in a geographic information system (GIS) to census-based social and agricultural data for Brazilian municipalities at multiple time points. Subregions with distinct settlement histories serve as proxies for different stages along the forest transition, theorized to exhibit depletion of forest cover, …
Secondary Forest Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and the Refinement of Forest Transition Theory
This article examines forest change in the Brazilian Amazon in light of forest transition theory. We draw on satellite-based land cover data matched in a geographic information system (GIS) to census-based social and agricultural data for Brazilian municipalities at multiple time points. Subregions with distinct settlement histories serve as proxies for different stages along the forest transition, theorized to exhibit depletion of forest cover, …
Social Determinants and Land Use Correlates of Agricultural Technology Adoption in a Forest Frontier
Social determinants of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Are Agricultural Production and Forest Conservation Compatible? Agricultural Diversity, Agricultural Incomes and Primary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon
An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience
The importance of household asset diversity for livelihood diversity and welfare among small farm colonists in the Amazon
Taking a small farm colony on the Amazon frontier as a case study, this article examines the relationships among household assets, livelihood diversity and welfare. The findings show that: (1) few households diversified into non-agricultural income sources, but those that did also had agricultural incomes comparable to households primarily reliant on agriculture; (2) distinct household assets influence the extent of agricultural and non-agricultu…
Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin
Loggers and Forest Fragmentation
Although a large literature now exists on the drivers of tropical deforestation, less is known about its spatial manifestation. This is a critical shortcoming in our knowledge base since the spatial pattern of land-cover change and forest fragmentation, in particular, strongly affect biodiversity. The purpose of this article is to consider emergent patterns of road networks, the initial proximate cause of fragmentation in tropical forest frontier…
Land‐Cover and Land‐Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon
Tropical deforestation is a significant driver of global environmental change, given its impacts on the carbon cycle and biodiversity. Loss of the Amazon forest, the focus of this article, is of particular concern because of the size and the rapid rate at which the forest is being converted to agricultural use. In this article, we identify what has been the most important driver of deforestation in a specific colonization frontier in the Brazilia…
Beyond Population and Environment
Grand Theory and Context-Specificity in the Study of Forest Dynamics
This article critically reviews forest transition theory, which posits a decline in forest cover followed by expansion during the course of development. Whereas case studies in advanced industrial nations provided an empirical foundation, more recent cross-national modeling efforts and studies in developing regions have raised doubts. Forest transition theory has limitations in its concept of forests, its treatment of forest dynamics, its explana…
Reformulating Modernization-Based Environmental Social Theories
While modernization theory has been largely abandoned in the social sciences, its influence is evident in environmental Kuznets curves, ecological modernization, and forest transition theory. These environmental social theories have consequently undergone criticism and varying degrees of reformulation that moved them away from modernization trappings, and in the process opened them to greater influence from theoretical perspectives in other socia…
Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change
This article addresses deforestation processes in the Amazon basin, using regression analysis to assess the impact of household structure and economic circumstances on land use decisions made by colonist farmers in the forest frontiers of Brazil. Unlike many previous regression-based studies, the methodology implemented analyzes behavior at the level of the individual property, using both survey data and information derived from the classificatio…
Geography (47 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (42 obras) · Amazon rainforest (35 obras) · Ecology (35 obras) · Economics (34 obras) · Political science (28 obras) · Agriculture (21 obras) · Business (20 obras) · Ecology (19 obras) · Environmental resource management (19 obras)