Showing papers by "Amazon.com published in 1993"
TL;DR: A rebuttal of David Wood's proposal to open up tropical forests to agricultural uses is provided in this paper, where concern is raised that his proposal exaggerates the ability of forests to regenerate after agricultural uses sacrifices tropical forests in the name of alleviating poverty and in support of large land owners and prevents valuable potential resource use by local populations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of a soil, vegetation, and land use inventory made within the CARE-PERU project, which involves sorne 400 families in 12 comunities living between the Amazon, the Tamshiyacu and Tahuayo rivers.
Abstract: Los problemas ambientales que afectan a la amazonia peruana, debido a las actividades de tipo extractivo mercantil obligan a buscar nuevas estrategias de desarrollo que sea sustentable. Una de estas es la aplicada por CARE-PERU en el proyecto "Comunidades Amazonicas y la Sustenibilidad de su Produccion (CASPI), que comprende a unas 400 familias agrupadas en 12 comunidades entre los rios Amazonas, Tamshiyacu, y Tahuayo. En esta investigacion solo se reportan los resultados del inventario de suelos, vegetacion y uso actual de las tierras, basandose fuertemente en el conocimiento de la poblacion nativa sobre estos asuntos. Estos resultados han sido obtenidos en el marco del proyecto CASPI cuyo objetivo es disenar una nueva metodologia para realizar inventarios de recursos naturales en la Amazonia basandose en la participacion comunal. The environmental problems that affect the Peruvian Amazonia due to extractive commercial activities are of such magnitude that make necessary to look for new sustainable development strategies. One of these is the one applied by CARE-PERU in her project "Comunidades Amazonicas y la Sostenibilidad de su Produccion" (CASPI); which involves sorne 400 families in 12 comunities living between the Amazon, the Tamshiyacu and Tahuayo rivers. In this research I only report the results of a soil, vegetation, and land use inventory made within the CASPI project. These results are heavily based on the Knowledge that the native population has of these issues. The objective was to design a new methodology to make inventories of the natural resources in the Amazon forest, based on communal participation.