Conservation and Development in Amazonian Extractive Reserves

The Case of Alto Juruá

Bibliographic Data

ID10889136
AuthorsManuel Ruiz-Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, corresponding author), M Almeida (0000-0001-6612-9593, Amazon (United States)), Sonya Dewi (0000-0001-9707-2710, Center for International Forestry Research), Eliza Mara Lozano Costa (0000-0002-8918-4701, Amazon (United States)), Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja (0000-0003-0612-0962, Center for International Forestry Research), Atie Puntodewo (Amazon (United States)), Augusto De Arruda Postigo (Center for International Forestry Research), Alexandre Goulart de Andrade (Center for International Forestry Research)
Year2005
Volume34
Issue3
Pages218-223
Publication date2005-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAMBIO (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209
PublisherRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • SE)
DOI10.1579/0044-7447-34.3.218
PMID16042280
OpenAlexW2142419330
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited10

Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea's popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, there has been little analysis of the combined conservation and development performance of extractive reserve programs. We present a detailed analysis of deforestation and demographic and socioeconomic changes in Alto Juruá, the first extractive reserve created in Brazil in 1990. Forest cover has remained fairly stable. Population has declined slightly, with some internal displacements. The cash economy base has shifted from the original rubber production to a diversified portfolio of agriculture and livestock, and there has been a dramatic rise in nonagrarian income. We conclude that the Reserve represents a very dynamic setting with positive conservation and development outcomes during its first decade

Agroforestry · Deforestation (computer science · Economics · Geography · Natural resource economics · Nature reserve · Population · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Fish biology, ecology, and behavior · Forestry · Mining and Resource Management

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