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Mauricio Torres
Researcher at Federal University of Pará
Publications - 11
Citations - 155
Mauricio Torres is an academic researcher from Federal University of Pará. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amazon rainforest & Deforestation. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 10 publications receiving 112 citations. Previous affiliations of Mauricio Torres include Federal University of Western Pará & University of São Paulo.
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The natural and social history of the indigenous lands and protected areas corridor of the Xingu River basin
Stephan Schwartzman,André Villas Boas,Katia Yukari Ono,Marisa Gesteira Fonseca,Juan Doblas,Barbara L. Zimmerman,Paulo Junqueira,Adriano Jerozolimski,Marcelo Salazar,Rodrigo Prates Junqueira,Mauricio Torres +10 more
TL;DR: The Xingu indigenous lands and protected areas corridor vividly demonstrates how ILPAs halt deforestation and why they may account for a large part of the 70 per cent reduction in Amazon deforestation below the 1996–2005 average since 2005.
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Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia
TL;DR: In this paper, the Foucaultian notion of counter-conducts is used to elucidate the political subjectivities emergent from the performance of dissent in relation to different forms of power such as sovereign, disciplinary and biopower.
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Ancient Transformation, Current Conservation: Traditional Forest Management on the Iriri River, Brazilian Amazonia
William Balée,Vinicius Honorato de Oliveira,Raquel dos Santos,Márcio Amaral,Bruna Rocha,Natalia Guerrero,Stephan Schwartzman,Mauricio Torres,Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti +8 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses the impacts of occupation and resource use by beiradeiros (forest peasants) on the forests of a strictly designated nature reserve in the Iriri River basin (Brazilian Amazon).
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Amazonian destruction, Bolsonaro and COVID-19: neo-liberalism unchained
TL;DR: The scale of environmental crimes and aggression towards indigenous peoples and people of African-... as discussed by the authors showed that during the current pandemic, forest loss in 2020 has dwarfed the devastation of the previous year.
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The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin and Prospects for Protection
Stephan Schwartzman,Barbara L. Zimmerman,A.V. Boas,K.Y. Ono,Marisa Gesteira Fonseca,Juan Doblas,P. Junqueira,A. Jerozolimski,Marcelo Salazar,Rodrigo Prates Junqueira,Mauricio Torres +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that projects of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government support for indigenous and traditional communities have developed scalable resource management and income generation projects within the Xingu river basin.