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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Geography Colloquium: Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems: Indigenous Territories in the Face of Change

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Speaker: Dr. Bob Walker Professor Department of Geography University of Florida Co-speakers: Dr. Joel Correia, Dr. Cynthia Simmons, Miguel Acevedo, Michael Esbach Thursday, February 16, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are capable of conserving their natural environments in the face of […]

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Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages

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SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Globalized supply chains: Emergent tele couplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Cynthia Simmons, Robert Walker, Gilberto Aranda Osorio, Petro Martinez Hernandez, Ema Maldonado-Simán, Barney Warf, Marta Astier, Michael Waylen Article first published online: 5 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102486 ABSTRACT: This article analyzes how trade liberalization in Mexico, particularly […]

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Focus Area 6: Sustainability & Global Environmental Change

Major contemporary issues in global environmental change and sustainability are increasingly relevant for environmental management and development practice in both the developed and developing worlds. Global socio-ecological problems call for multidisciplinary solutions that transcend the usual boundaries of science and decision-making. Sub-areas Resilience Biodiversity Sea Level Rise Anthropocene Climate Change Human Impacts Urban Geography Natural Resources […]

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Focus Area 5: Catastrophes, Conservation, and Conflict

Disastrous natural hazards, both fast and slow, and violent conflicts affect many people worldwide, often impacting already fragile environments and conservation areas. These crises have significant political, economic, and social implications that can reverse development gains, further entrench poverty and inequality, thereby increasing the risk for future crises. Sub-areas Outbreaks Extreme Events Natural Hazards Protected Areas Wildlife Economy Natural Resources Social Vulnerability Humanitarian […]

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Focus Area 4: Geopolitics & The Global Economy

The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world’s economic and political geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. Important topics in this arena relate to: globalization and its impact on peoples and places; economic inequalities across geographic scales and borders; terrorism and power; the development of the knowledge-based economy; and […]

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Focus Area 3: Places, Networks, & Flows

Geographers conceive of networks and flows between places as a foundational spatial concept. Geographic information systems (GIS) are the main analytical tools employed in determining relations between individuals, settlements, modes of transport, and infrastructures like power grids, and communication networks. The concepts can also be applied to disease contagion, healthcare service delivery, crime activities, river […]

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Celebrating Women Geographers for Women’s History Month

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Geography is a diverse field. Throughout the month of March, we will be highlighting the work of Women Geographers, some of whom are #GeoGators. Tierney Shimansky Tierney is a Master’s student who studies land management and conservation in southern Africa. Dr. Yin-Hsuen Chen Yin-Hsuen is a fluvial geomorphologist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of […]

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Geography Colloquium: Dynamic Amazonia – Looking Back to See Forward

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Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Simmons Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, February 4, 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. Cynthia Simmons is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, at the University of Florida. She is a […]

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

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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 […]

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Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México

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SIMMONS, WALKER – Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México Marta Astier, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Robert Walker, Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Carlos González-Esquivel, Cynthia S. Simmons Article first published online: 5 MAR 2020 Land DOI: 10.3390/land9030075 ABSTRACT: Rural life in México has changed drastically over the past several […]

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Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope

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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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Dynamic Amazonia – Lessons for a Changing World

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Dr. Cynthia Simmons presented as an invited featured speaker at the International Colloquium on Socio-Environmental Politics at Rhodes House, Oxford University, on 31 Jan 2020 in a talk titled Dynamic Amazonia: Lessons for a Changing World. Amazonia is critical to the global environment given its store of biodiversity and its repository of carbon. Since the […]

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

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SIMMONS, WALKER – Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon Stephen P. Aldrich,Cynthia S. Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Robert T. Walker, Fernando Michelotti, Edna Castro Article first published online: 27 JAN 2020 PLOS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227378 ABSTRACT: Since 1984, nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the Brazilian Amazon due […]

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

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ANTUNES, IRIGARAY CASTRO, SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century Robert Toovey Walker, Cynthia Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Aghane Antunes, Michael Waylen, and Maíra Irigaray Article first published online: 25 OCT 2019 One Earth DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2019.09.009 ABSTRACT: A new threat now confronts the Amazon in the form […]

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

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  GeoGator Dr. Cynthia Simmons joined colleagues at University of Texas, Austin’s Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies in a forum entitled Foro Urgente: “The Amazon Is Burning—Why It Should Matter to You”. The recent surge in Amazon forest fires has sounded the international alarm, eliciting protests from European heads-of-state, scientists, Hollywood stars, […]

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

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GAINESVILLE, FL – Amazonian deforestation continues to concern the world community, especially as the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA) begins to displace indigenous peoples and traditional communities. While the narrative surrounding the loss of Amazonian ecosystems is often framed as the penetration of capitalist relations into a resource […]

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A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation

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Associate Professor Dr. Cynthia Simmons and a team of international scholars – including UF Geography’s Dr. Robert Walker, Mike Waylen, and Aghane Antunes – present a strategy for achieving sustainable development in Amazonia, given global climate change and the massive infrastructure program planned for the region, in their latest paper Science in support of Amazonian […]

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

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ANTUNES, SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin Cynthia S. Simmons, Robert Walker, Stephen Aldrich, Eugenio Arima, Ritaumaria Pereira, Edna Maria Ramos de Castro, Fernando Michelotti, Michael Waylen, & Aghane Antunes Article first published online: 20 DEC 2018 The Annals of the American Association […]

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

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ANTUNES, SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Science in support of Amazonian conservation in the 21st century: the case of Brazil Cynthia S. Simmons, Lisa Famolare, Marcia N. Macedo, Robert T. Walker, Michael T. Coe, Brett Scheffers, Eugenio Arima, Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Denis Valle, Clyde Fraisse, Paul Moorcroft, Marcelo Diniz, Marcia Diniz, Claudio Szlafsztein, Ritaumaria Pereira, Cesar Ruiz, […]

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

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One of Amazonia’s most pristine waterways, the Tapajós River, is under a development threat that holds implications for the entire basin. This threat stems from an infrastructure plan proposed by the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), in coordination with complementary projects on the part of its 12 member states. UNASUR’s Initiative for the Integration […]

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

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SIMMONS, WALKER – Endangered Amazon: An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley Robert Walker and Cynthia Simmons Article first published online: 01 MAR 2018 Environment Magazine ABSTRACT: One of Amazonia’s most pristine waterways, the Tapajós River, is under a development threat that holds implications for the entire basin. This threat […]

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

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Dr. Cynthia Simmons presents a series of invited lectures at a research meeting hosted by the Department of Geography, Federal University of Pará (Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA), in Pará, Brazil. Dr. Simmons presented “Socio-Ecological Transformations in the Anthropocene: Re-imagining the Amazon?” at the research meeting, and presented this year’s Aula Magna for the doctoral […]

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

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The newly created UF Biodiversity Institute (UFBI) awarded a Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grant to a joint effort by UF faculty, students and Brazilian collaborators of the Amazon Dams Network (Rede Barragens Amazônicas -ADN/RBA), hosted in the Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD) in the Center for Latin American Studies, in partnership with the UF Department […]

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

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Contentious Land Change in Amazonia – Implications for Global Environmental Change Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Simmons Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday,January 12, 2017 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3012 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.

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

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SIMMONS, WALKER – Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment Ritaumaria Pereira, Cynthia S. Simmons, and Robert Walker Article first published online: 7 JUL 2016 Land DOI: 10.3390/land5030024 ABSTRACT: Smallholder farming in the Brazilian Amazon has changed markedly over the last few decades, following a pervasive swing to cattle production observed […]

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Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development

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SIMMONS, WALKER – Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development Cynthia Simmons, Robert Walker, Stephen Perz, Eugenio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas Article first published online: MAR 2016 Journal of Latin American Geography DOI: 10.1353/lag.2016.0011 ABSTRACT: Amazonian deforestation has declined recently, but Brazil’s infrastructure plans continue to target the region. In the interest of […]

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