Cultural Diversity in the Amazon Borderlands: Implications for Conservation and Development

Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America

“…Yet, transboundary studies have overlooked, on the one hand, the biophysical potential of natural regions to determine their limitations or constraints for development (i.e., natural primary productivity of ecoregions) and, on the other hand, the possible influence of land management in multiple land systems (i.e., integrating variables from different disciplines, such as accessibility, land-use, land protection and wealth) at large scales. Moreover, the few multi-national studies that included economic development variables compared across borders, included either a narrow portion of the border territory in the analysis (i.e., buffer) (Crespo Cuaresma et al 2017;Salisbury and Weinstein 2014) or looked at the effects of a single process of the land system (i.e., forest transition or deforestation) at the country level (Culas 2007;Perz et al 2005;Redo et al 2012;Southworth et al 2011). Understanding transnational socio-ecological land systems at large scales that include a variety of ecosystems and land-management variability (i.e., multi-disciplinary and multi-variable studies) is still a challenge for the socio-environmental sciences.…”

Mountain Ecology, Remoteness, and the Rise of Agrobiodiversity: Tracing the Geographic Spaces of Human–Environment Knowledge

“…In addition to the sources referenced in the main article the following works have been consulted: Bebbington 2000;Jokisch 2002;Perreault 2005Perreault , 2006and Zimmerer and Vanek 2016. Many of the current territorial movements in the tropical Andes draw on the ideas of Living Well referred to as buen vivir, sumaq kawsay, and allin kawsay. At the same time these territorial movements include indigenous and peasant groups whose territorial initiatives may not refer to Living Well though they may draw on similar ideas (Escobar 2008;Salisbury and Weinstein 2014).…”

Capítulo 10: Interconexiones críticas entre la diversidad cultural y biológica de los pueblos y ecosistemas Amazónicos

“…In the Amazon, biocultural diversity is especially rich, as expressed through a multitude of cultural identities, worldviews, languages, knowledge systems, and livelihoods; and their associated governance regimes, technological innovations, and landscape management practices (Balée 1989(Balée , 2003Heckenberger 2010;Salisbury and Weinstein 2014;Athayde et al 2017a;Caballero-Serrano et al 2019). These interlinked processes have important, but largely overlooked, implications for decision-making and policies related to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, as discussed in other parts of this report.…”