Community Arrangements, Productive Systems, Scientific and Technological Inputs for Land Use and Forest Resources in Amazon

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is the examination of the current trends in the Brazilian A mazon that is promoting significant changes in the standards of economic use involving some rain forest products. Overall, these new trends are demonstrating an extensive modernizat ion of econo mic activit ies that affect specially the structure and dynamics of organized co mmunit ies in this reg ion. On the other hand, these trends also affect the linkage of these commun ities and their respective networks. In many cases, the type of region netwo rk is led by industrial co mpanies. The research also indicates that the main sources of this new process are the market increase of products extracted in the A mazonian biodiversity and, besides this, both scale and level of processing. Finally, it approaches another strategic source of modern izat ion, represented by a closer and effective participation of reg ional scientific research institutions in these new or 'emerg ing systems'.