Brazil

Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon

November 29, 2023

Large Mining Projects and Socio-Environmental Impacts: Economic and Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Barcarena (Pará, Brazil)

October 24, 2023

The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a roads plan could push it past its breaking point

March 23, 2023

Geography Colloquium: The Land-Grab Industry in the Brazilian Amazon – the stealing of public lands with the government’s approval

March 9, 2021

Geography Colloquium: Assessing the impact of trade agreements on land change in Brazil’s Amazonia

February 12, 2021

Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation

September 16, 2020

Geography Colloquium: The Struggle for Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon

September 8, 2020

What Florida Can Learn from the Amazon Fires

June 4, 2020

Drs. Simmons and Walker Invited Speakers at the Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019

May 26, 2020

Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope

February 27, 2020

Dynamic Amazonia – Lessons for a Changing World

February 21, 2020

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

Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

January 27, 2020

Geography Colloquium: Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes – Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century

November 14, 2019

Geography Colloquium: Amazons Within The Amazon – A Multiscale Assessment of Urbanization

November 8, 2019

Foro Urgente: “The Amazon Is Burning—Why It Should Matter to You”

September 14, 2019

Dr. Robert Walker’s #RedditAMA on the #Amazon

August 28, 2019

UF Researchers Forecast Accelerated Deforestation and Displacement of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Amazon

February 28, 2019

Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

January 30, 2019

A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation

January 23, 2019

Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin

December 20, 2018

Science in support of Amazonian conservation in the 21st century: the case of Brazil

November 14, 2018

Endangered Amazon – An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley

February 28, 2018

Endangered Amazon: An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley

February 28, 2018

Dr. Simmons presents 2017 Aula Magna at Federal University of Pará, Brazil

July 7, 2017

Amazon Dams Network, Geography Department, TCD Program & UF Law School Awarded a Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grant from the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute

March 17, 2017

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco

February 3, 2017

Geography Colloquium: Contentious Land Change in Amazonia – Implications for Global Environmental Change

January 11, 2017

To Keep a River Running

November 16, 2016

Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment

July 7, 2016

Belo Monte and the Face of Development We Refuse To See

April 8, 2016

Integrating Research and Practice to Promote More Resilient Family Agriculture

March 18, 2016

Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development

March 15, 2016

Response to Corridors for people, corridors for nature

February 3, 2016

How much is enough? An integrated examination of energy security, economic growth and climate change related to hydropower expansion in Brazil

January 1, 2016

Geography Colloquium: The Last Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: Impacts on Smallholders and the Environment

September 21, 2015

Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier

August 24, 2015