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Geography Colloquium: Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems: Indigenous Territories in the Face of Change
February 15, 2023
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Acevedo
Amazonia
Correia
DISES
Esbach
Geography Colloquium
Indigenous territories
Simmons
UFGC
Walker
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Geography Colloquium: The Land-Grab Industry in the Brazilian Amazon – the stealing of public lands with the government’s approval
March 9, 2021
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Amazon
Amazonia
Brazil
Carrero
Geography Colloquium
UFGC
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Geography Colloquium: Assessing the impact of trade agreements on land change in Brazil’s Amazonia
February 12, 2021
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Amazonia
Arima
Brazil
Geography Colloquium
land change
UFGC
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Geography Colloquium: Dynamic Amazonia – Looking Back to See Forward
February 1, 2021
Tagged
Amazonia
Geography Colloquium
Simmons
UFGC
Publications
Spatiotemporal changes in vegetation greenness across continental Ecuador: a Pacific-Andean-Amazonian gradient, 1982–2010
December 30, 2020
Tagged
Amazonia
Andes
Ecuador
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
greening and browning
Haro-Carrión
Journal of Land Use Science
land cover change
NDVI
Pacific
Southworth
time-series analysis
tropical Andes
vegetation
Waylen
Publications
Collision Course: Development Pushes Amazonia Toward Its Tipping Point
December 23, 2020
Tagged
Amazon Basin
Amazonia
Brazik
deforestation
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Faculty Publication
Walker
Featured
News
Dynamic Amazonia – Lessons for a Changing World
February 21, 2020
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
forest
International Colloquium on Socio-Environmental Politics
Oxford Letter for the Amazon
Oxford University
Peru
Rhodes House
Simmons
Featured
News
Geography Colloquium: Resistance, Global Justice, and Protection of Indigenous Territories in the Amazon: the ipereğ ayũ movement of the munduruku indigenous people
February 7, 2020
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Brazil
Geography Colloquium
Irigaray Castro
Munduruku
Munduruku Movement Ipereğ Ayũ (MMIA)
social movement
UFGC
Wakoborûn Indigenous Women’s Association and Movement (WIWM)
Publications
Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century
October 25, 2019
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Antunes
catastrophe
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
IIRSA
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Irigaray Castro
One Earth
Simmons
sustainability
Tapajós River
Tapajós River Valley
tipping point
Walker
Waylen
Featured
News
UF Researchers Forecast Accelerated Deforestation and Displacement of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Amazon
February 28, 2019
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Amazon
Amazon Basin
Amazonia
Brazil
Brazil Nut Forest (BNF)
deforestation
IIRSA
indigeonous peoples
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Simmons
The Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Walker
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News
Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
January 30, 2019
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Belo Monte Dam
biodiversity
Brazil
conservation
Tapajós dam project
Tapajós Valley
The Conversation
Wlaker
Xingu River
Featured
News
A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation
January 23, 2019
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Amazon
Amazonia
Antunes
Biotropica
Brazil
conservation
deforestation
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Irigaray Castro
Jair Bolsonaro
Munduruku
Para
Patawazal
Simmons
South America
Tapajós Valley
Walker
Waylen
Featured
News
#AmazoniaIsGreat- let’s keep it that way!
October 5, 2017
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Center for Latin American Studies
Simmons
Tropical Conservation and Develiopment
Featured
News
Geography Colloquium: Contentious Land Change in Amazonia – Implications for Global Environmental Change
January 11, 2017
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
Brazil
carbon
deforestation
Geography Colloquium
global environmental change
land cover change
land use change
Simmons
UFGC
Publications
Response to Corridors for people, corridors for nature
February 3, 2016
Tagged
Amazon
Amazonia
biodiversity
Brazil
conservation
ecology
environmental degradation
Faculty Publication
roads
Science
transportation
Walker
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