Luke Parry

TL;DR: In this article, the role of landowning elites in developing and operating a hybrid governance arrangement in response to the decentralization of anti-deforestation policy in the Brazilian Amazon is analyzed.

TL;DR: It is shown that fishing has severely depleted a large-bodied keystone fish species, tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), with an impact extending over 1,000 km from the rainforest city of Manaus, and empirical evidence that urban markets can defaunate deep into rainforest wilderness is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the factors that shape the development and distribution of agricultural activities and farmer well-being in tropical agricultural-forest frontiers of the Brazilian Amazon and find that livestock production, which yields the lowest per hectare incomes, remains the most prevalent land use in remote areas, but many examples of high income fruit, horticulture and staple crop production exist on small properties, particularly in peri-urban areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the social vulnerability of Amazonian cities to floods and droughts is linked to differences in their spatial accessibility and found that 914,654 people live in roadless urban centers (n = 68) located up to 2,820 km from their state capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors 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 on the one hand, and exchange values and the market on the other.