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

Posted on November 29, 2023

SIMMONS – Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon Cadi Fung, Brad Peter, and Cynthia Simmons Article first published online: 29 November 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation3040034 ABSTRACT: Over the past several decades, concern has grown over the rising mortality of the Amazon […]

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

Posted on October 24, 2023

SIMMONS – Large Mining Projects and Socio-Environmental Impacts: Economic and Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Barcarena (Pará, Brazil) Raimundo da Costa Almeida, Christian Nunes da Silva, João Marcio Palheta da Silva, Aghane de Carvalho Antunes, Cynthia S. Simmons, Daniel Araújo Sombra Soares Article first published online: 20 October 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/jssm.2023.165030 ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the socio-environmental […]

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

Posted on March 23, 2023

WALKER – The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a roads plan could push it past its breaking point Robert Walker Article first published online: 22 March 2023 URL: https://theconversation.com/the-amazon-is-not-safe-under-brazils-new-president-a-roads-plan-could-push-it-past-its-breaking-point-200691 ABSTRACT: Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election in the fall of 2022. His […]

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

Posted on March 9, 2021

Speaker: Gabriel Cardoso Carrero PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, March 11, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Gabriel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at the University of Florida. With a B.Sc. in Biology and an […]

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

Posted on February 12, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Eugenio Arima Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Dr. Eugenio Arima is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the […]

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

Posted on September 16, 2020

CARRERO – Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation Gabriel Cardoso Carrero, Philip Martin Fearnside, Denis Ribeiro do Valle, & Cristiano de Souza Alves Article first published online: 16 SEPT 2020 Environmental Management DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01354-w ABSTRACT: We examine deforestation processes […]

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

Posted on September 8, 2020

Speaker: Aline Carrara PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, September 10, 2020 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. This dissertation addresses the creation and destruction of indigenous territories (ITs) in the Brazilian Amazônia by studying the formation, expansion, and maintenance of ITs, […]

What Florida Can Learn from the Amazon Fires

Posted on June 4, 2020

Last Fall, Dr. Robert Walker talked with the Florida Museum of Natural History about What Florida Can Learn from the Amazon Fires. Robert Walker, a professor of Latin American geographers and geography in the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, grew up in Clearwater, Fla. He remembers driving down long stretches of I-75, peering out at mile after mile […]

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

Posted on May 26, 2020

Dr. Cynthia Simmons and Dr. Robert Walker were invited speakers at the Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019 at the Center for Environmental Geography Research (CIGA), National University of Mexico, Michoacan (UNAM). Small rural producers, forests and globalization in Latin America In the first part of the conference the socioeconomic and environmental effects of the entry […]

Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope

Posted on February 27, 2020

CARRARA, IRIGARAY, SIMMONS, WALKER – Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope Robert T. Walker, Aline Carrara, Cynthia Simmons, and Maira Irigaray Article first published online: 27 FEB 2020 The Conversation ABSTRACT: Brazil’s divisive President Jair Bolsonaro has taken another step in his bold plans to develop the Amazon rainforest. A bill he is […]

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