Luke Parry

Biographic Data

ID95722
NAMELuke Parry
GIVEN NAMESLuke
FAMILY NAMEParry
SIGNATUREPARRY L
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal do Pará
ORCID0000-0003-0330-9516
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS140
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Estimating double burden of malnutrition among rural and urban children in Amazonia using Bayesian latent models

    Open AccessJesem D Y Orellana, Luke Parry et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) in the same individual is a neglected public health concern, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The DBM is associated with increased risks of non-communicable diseases, childbirth complications, and healthcare costs related to obesity in adulthood. However, evaluating low prevalence outcomes in relatively small populations is challenging using conventional frequentist statis…

  • The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality

    Open AccessJames Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres et al.ARTICLEGeo Geography and Environment2025References: 15

    We examine Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an innovation in territorial rights significant to debates on the commons, pluriverse and insurgent universality. Scholarship emphasises plural ontologies and identity‐based recognition, yet we argue that TUC Rio Manicoré is more productively read as a form of insurgent universality: a grassroots, women‐led struggle articulating concretely universal claims through the defenc…

  • Deforestation and human development in the Brazilian tropical dry forest

    Open AccessL M G Alencar, Lucas Alencar et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2025References: 7

  • Cidadania dos povos da floresta e Covid-19: Disputas e articulações no enfrentamento à pandemia na Resex do Iriri (PA)

    Open AccessJéssica Pires Cardoso, Rodrigo Constante Martins et al.ARTICLERaízes Revista de Ciências…2023References: 15

    O objetivo deste artigo é discutir os alcances e os limites do acesso aos direitos de cidadania por povos da floresta no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19. Para tanto, é apresentada uma análise das ações do Estado, de agentes externos e dos povos da floresta no enfrentamento da pandemia na Resex do Iriri (Altamira, PA). A análise toma como base teórica a noção de brutalismo como forma de exercício da política, tal como proposta por Mbembe (2020). …

  • Capability Failures and Corrosive Disadvantage in a Violent Rainforest Metropolis

    Open AccessMariana Piva Da Silva, James Angus Fraser et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2023Cited by: 2References: 38

    Governments continue to narrowly equate improved well-being with economic growth, contrary to decades of development scholarship. The capabilities approach instead emphasizes freedom and what individuals are able to do and to be within society. However, it underplays structural determinants of social inequities and says little about violence, a dominant problem in metropolitan areas of Latin America. Framing our analysis around capabilities and t…

  • The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system

    Open AccessWillandia A Chaves, Willandia Chaves et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023

    We examine ways in which the role of wild animals in the Amazonian food system may be socially differentiated and species-specific. We combine a hybrid framework of food choice preferences and theorizing on access to natural resources with fieldwork in Brazilian Amazon, where social and environmental challenges coalesce around the role of wildlife in feeding a growing urban population. Based on 798 household surveys across four towns, we found th…

  • Urban Amazonians use Fishing as a Strategy for Coping with Food Insecurity

    Open AccessSérgio Luiz De Medeiros Rivero, Oriana Trindade De Almeida et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2022

    Fishing provides livelihoods and food for millions of people in the Global South yet inland fisheries are under-researched and neglected in food and nutrition policy. This paper goes beyond the rural focus of existing research and examines how urban households may use fishing as a livelihood strategy for coping with food insecurity. Our study in Brazilian Amazonia is based on a random sample of households (n = 798) in four remote riverine towns. …

  • From ‘prison’ to ‘paradise’? Seeking freedom at the rainforest frontier through urban–rural migration

    Open AccessMariana Piva Da Silva, James Angus Fraser et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 2References: 21

    The lives of the urban poor in the majority world are unfree: blighted by social injustice in its manifold forms, from violence and ill-health to absent economic opportunities. We explore the pursuit of freedom through migration away from the metropole to ramais (colonisation tracks) at the rainforest frontier. Drawing on a case study in Brazilian Amazonia, we reveal urban-rural migration as a frontier dynamic driven by the search for a good life…

  • Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers

    Open AccessKatarzyna Mikołajczak, Alexander C Lees et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2021

    Conservationists often assume that connection with and caring about nature's well‐being is strongly linked to ecological knowledge. Existing evidence on the link between ecological knowledge and psychological nature connection is mixed, geographically limited to countries in the Global North, and does not scrutinise potential differences in determinants of ecological knowledge and nature connection. We investigate the relationship between psychol…

  • Rainfall variability and adverse birth outcomes in Amazonia

    Open AccessErick A Chacón-Montalván, Benjamín M Taylor et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 3References: 14

  • Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

    Open AccessFelipe P L Melo, Luke Parry et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 3References: 12

  • Fire risk perpetuates poverty and fire use among Amazonian smallholders

    Open AccessFederico Cammelli, Rhianna Garrett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 6References: 11

    Forest fires exacerbate carbon emissions, threaten biodiversity and cause welfare losses to local populations. Most fires accidentally ignite from mismanaged swidden and pasture fires. We provide evidence that fire risk in the Brazilian Amazon, the world's largest remaining tropical forest, perpetuates low yield and environmentally degrading agricultural activities. Using a combination of household interviews and remotely sensed data on fire occu…

  • Tough fishing and severe seasonal food insecurity in Amazonian flooded forests

    Open AccessDaniel Tregidgo, Jos Barlow et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020Cited by: 8References: 13

    Billions of people rely on harvesting wildlife for food, and must contend with catch rates that vary in space (e.g. overharvesting near communities) and time (e.g. seasonal migrations). Yet, research has overlooked potential linkages between reduced wildlife catch rates (catch‐per‐unit‐effort) and food security. Moreover, assumptions that people living in biologically rich environments are food secure lack empirical testing. This is problematic g…

  • The (in)visible health risks of climate change

    Open AccessLuke Parry, C Radel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 12References: 100

    This paper scrutinizes the assertion that knowledge gaps concerning health risks from climate change are unjust, and must be addressed, because they hinder evidence-led interventions to protect vulnerable populations. First, we construct a taxonomy of six inter-related forms of invisibility (social marginalization, forced invisibility by migrants, spatial marginalization, neglected diseases, mental health, uneven climatic monitoring and forecasti…

  • Fertilizer Adoption by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon: Farm-level Evidence

    Open AccessThiago Morello, Thiago Fonseca Morello et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2018

  • Social Vulnerability to Climatic Shocks Is Shaped by Urban Accessibility

    Open AccessLuke Parry, Brendan Sturgeon et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2018Cited by: 13References: 93

    Despite growing interest in urban vulnerability to climatic change, there is no systematic understanding of why some urban centers have greater social vulnerability than others. In this article, we ask whether the social vulnerability of Amazonian cities to floods and droughts is linked to differences in their spatial accessibility. To assess the accessibility of 310 urban centers, we developed a travel network and derived measures of connectivit…

  • Amazonian peasant livelihood differentiation as mutuality-market dialectics

    Open AccessJames Angus Fraser, Thiago Cardoso et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2018Cited by: 18References: 79

    Economistic approaches to the study of peasant livelihoods have considerable academic and policy influence, yet, we argue, perpetuate a partial misunderstanding - often reducing peasant livelihood to the management of capital assets by rational actors. In this paper, we propose to revitalize the original heterodox spirit of the sustainable livelihoods framework by drawing on Stephen Gudeman's work on the dialectic between use values and mutuality…

  • Policy instruments to control Amazon fires: A simulation approach

    Open AccessThiago Morello, Thiago Fonseca Morello et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2017

  • Fires in Brazilian Amazon: Why Does Policy Have a Limited Impact

    Open AccessThiago Fonseca-Morello, Rossano Ramos et al.ARTICLEAmbiente & sociedade2017Cited by: 1References: 19

    The paper identifies the key factors limiting the effectiveness of current public policies to reduce Brazilian Amazon fires. Among them, (i) the dominant allocation of budget to fire suppression in detriment of prevention, (ii) the geographical limitation of the federal action and the reduced policy making capacity of states and municipalities, (iii) institutional insufficiencies and transaction costs related with fire use licensing, (iv) limited…

  • Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessRhianna Garrett, Rachael D Garrett et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 6

    Garrett, R. D., T. A. Gardner, T. Fonseca, S. Marchand, J. Barlow, D. Ezzine de Blas, J. Ferreira, A. C. Lees, and L. Parry. 2017. Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and Society 22(3):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09364-220327

  • Are There Food Deserts in Rainforest Cities

    Brendan Sturgeon, Gemma Davies et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2017Cited by: 6References: 52

    Food deserts have been widely studied in Western contexts but rarely in transitioning economies and never within a rainforest. The Brazilian Amazon is a rapidly urbanizing region with high levels of poverty and food insecurity, providing an ideal context in which to explore this current research gap. Within this setting, five urban centers ranging from small town to metropole are examined to explore any potential variations between urban centers …

  • Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

    Open AccessJos Barlow, Gareth D Lennox et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales

    Open AccessLuke Parry, Carlos A PeresARTICLEConservation Ecology2015Cited by: 17

    Parry, L., and C. A. Peres. 2015. Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales. Ecology and Society 20(3): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07601-200315

  • Fomento florestal e sua função socioeconômica: Estudo de caso no município de Almeirim (PA)

    Open AccessAmanda Estefânia De Melo Ferreira, Luke Parry et al.ARTICLENovos Cadernos NAEA2014

    Os contratos de “fomento florestal” vêm difundindo-se ao longo do território nacional, incluindo a Amazônia. Trata-se de arranjos produtivos entre empresas e produtores locais com impactos relevantes sobre a renda familiar e fluxos de migração rural-urbana. O artigo analisa evidências acerca da manifestação no presente e no futuro destes benefícios focalizando uma comunidade de agricultores familiares de Almeirim - PA. Foram entrevistadas 39 famí…

  • Shifting Cultivation and Fire Policy: Insights from the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessRachel Carmenta, Saskia Vermeylen et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2013Cited by: 15References: 40