Eduardo S. Brondizio

TL;DR: This introduction provides an overview of the major Western intellectual currents up to those that are commonly used today and discusses the coverage, diversity, and parallels in themes and approaches across all chapters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the application of intensification parameters to a food production system, the aqai agroforestry (Euterpe oleracea) of the Amazon estuarine flood plains.

TL;DR: It is concluded that remotely sensed analysis can enhance short-term, low-budget fieldwork and reduce costs before field work by helping to inform where to concentrate data collection efforts, during fieldwork by extending spatial analysis to areas where accessibility is poor and that otherwise would not be included, and after fieldworkBy improving the spatial and temporal scope of the analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, an agent-based model of land use change has been developed to model small-scale agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon, where households have access to outside labour resources, and when households settle on previously occupied properties.

TL;DR: The Belmont Forum DELTAS Project members* are: A.Z. Sebesvari 1 , E. Foufoula-Georgiou 2, I. Harrison 3, E. S. Bucx 5, J. Dearing 6, D. Ganguly 7, T. Ghosh 8, S. Ghose 9, M. Hajra 8, C. Hagenlocher 10, Kuenzer 10, V. Mansur 11, Z. Matthews 12