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Simmons
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Publications
Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon
November 29, 2023
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Amazon
boto
Brazil
Faculty Publication
fishing
habitat
river dolphin
Simmons
tourism
Featured
Publications
Large Mining Projects and Socio-Environmental Impacts: Economic and Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Barcarena (Pará, Brazil)
October 24, 2023
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Brazil
Exports
Faculty Publication
impacts
mining
Simmons
Featured
News
Geography Colloquium: Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems: Indigenous Territories in the Face of Change
February 15, 2023
Tagged
Acevedo
Amazonia
Correia
DISES
Esbach
Geography Colloquium
Indigenous territories
Simmons
UFGC
Walker
Featured
Publications
Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages
March 7, 2022
Tagged
beef
Borlaug
corn
deforestation
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
greenhouse gases
Intensification
Land Sparing
Mexico
Simmons
telecoupling
Walker
Waylen
Featured
News
Celebrating Women Geographers for Women’s History Month
March 1, 2021
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Chen
Hamerlinck
Lannon
Matyas
McDade-Gordon
Mossa
Mullens
Ryan
Serafin
Shimansky
Simmons
Southworth
Women's History Month
WomenGeographers
WomenInSTEM
Featured
News
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11, 2021
Tagged
Ali
Alrehaili
Antunes
Bhattarai
Capps
Chen
Hamerlinck
Huguenin
Jing
Kohli
Lannon
Lippi
Matyas
McDade-Gordon
Merz
Mossa
Muir
Mullens
Mundis
parks
Quadrado
Ryan
Sabo
Serafin
Shimansky
Simmons
Smith
Southworth
Timmers
VanSchoick
Wang
White
Williamson
Women in Geography
Women in Science
Women in STEM
Yan
Featured
News
Geography Colloquium: Dynamic Amazonia – Looking Back to See Forward
February 1, 2021
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Amazonia
Geography Colloquium
Simmons
UFGC
Featured
News
GeoGator Grad Students get high Altmetic Exposure
September 2, 2020
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Antunes
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
Irigaray Castro
Simmons
Walker
Waylen
Featured
News
Drs. Simmons and Walker Invited Speakers at the Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019
May 26, 2020
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Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019
Brazil
cattle
Center for Environmental Geography Research (CIGA)
Mexico
Michoacan (UNAM)
National University of Mexico
Simmons
Walker
Publications
Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México
March 5, 2020
Tagged
Faculty Publication
global cattle economy
Mexico
NAFTA
neo-liberal reforms
Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region
peasant livelihoods
post NAFTA México
Simmons
Walker
Publications
Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
February 27, 2020
Tagged
Amazon
Bolsonaro
Brazil
Carrara
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
indigenous rights
indigeonous peoples
Irigaray Castro
Simmons
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
Publications
Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon
January 27, 2020
Tagged
agrarian reform
Amazon
Brazil
deforestation
Faculty Publication
land tenure
lawlessness
privatization
Simmons
Walker
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
Foro Urgente: “The Amazon Is Burning—Why It Should Matter to You”
September 14, 2019
Tagged
Amazon
Brazil
Foro Urgente
Simmons
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
University of Texas Austin
Featured
News
UF Researchers Forecast Accelerated Deforestation and Displacement of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Amazon
February 28, 2019
Tagged
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
Featured
News
A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation
January 23, 2019
Tagged
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
Publications
Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin
December 20, 2018
Tagged
Amazon
Antunes
Brazil
Brazil Nut Forest (BNF)
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
Simmons
The Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Walker
Waylen
Publications
Science in support of Amazonian conservation in the 21st century: the case of Brazil
November 14, 2018
Tagged
Amazon
Antunes
Biotropica
Brazil
conservation
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
Walker
Waylen
Featured
News
Endangered Amazon – An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley
February 28, 2018
Tagged
Amazon
Brazil
conservation
hydropower
IIRSA
Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America
Madeira River
Munduruku
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
UNASUR
Union of South American Nations
Walker
Xingu River
Publications
Endangered Amazon: An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley
February 28, 2018
Tagged
Amazon
Brazil
conservation
Faculty Publication
hydropower
IIRSA
Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America
Madeira River
Munduruku
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
UNASUR
Union of South American Nations
Walker
Xingu River
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
Dr. Simmons presents 2017 Aula Magna at Federal University of Pará, Brazil
July 7, 2017
Tagged
Amazon
Anthropocene
Aula Magna
Brazil
Federal University of Pará
Simmons
Featured
News
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
Tagged
Amazon
Amazon Dams Network
biodiversity
Biodiversity Institute
Brazil
Brazilian Judges and Prosecutors Training Program
conservation
Irigaray Castro
LATAM
natural resource management
NSF
Simmons
sustainability
Tropical Conservation and Development Program
UFBI
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
Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment
July 7, 2016
Tagged
agriculture
Amazon
beef
Brazil
cattle
environment
Faculty Publication
global cattle economy
globalization
Land
land grabs
production chains and networks
settlement projects
Simmons
Walker
Publications
Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development
March 15, 2016
Tagged
Amazon
biodiversity
Brazil
conservation
corridors
deforestation
ecology
Faculty Publication
infrastructure
Journal of Latin American Geography
landscape ecology
planning
roads
Simmons
Walker
Featured
Women in STEM is strong in Geography!
December 17, 2015
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Antunes
Carvalho
Castro
Engstrom
Fu
Hall
Herrero
Matyas
McDade-Gordon
Mossa
Muir
Nekorchuk
parks
Ryan
Sabo
Simmons
Smith
Southworth
Women in Geography
Yan
Yang
Zhou
Zick
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