The Shanty Town, Final Stage of Rural Development? The Case of Acre

Bakx, Keith

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“…In Rio Branco (the state capital of Acre), most migrants moved into one of the numerous peri-urban communities that checker the city’s landscape [ 39 , 40 ]. These communities formed on the outskirts of the city or along flood plains when uninhabited tracts of land are “claimed” by low income households during coordinated land grabs.…”

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Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon

Wayland

Walker

2014

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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BackgroundThis paper explores patterns of women’s medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman’s age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman’s use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have resided, the jungle/seringal and farms/colonias, are classified as rural. The third area (which all of the respondents resided in) was urban.MethodsThis paper utilizes survey data collected in Rio Branco, Brazil. Researchers administered the survey to 153 households in the community of Bairro da Luz (a pseudonym). The survey collected data on phytotherapeutic knowledge, general phytotherapeutic practice, recent phytotherapeutic practice and demographic information on age and length of residence in the seringal, on a colonia, and in a city. Bivariate correlation coefficients were calculated to assess the inter-relationships among the key variables. Three dependent variables, two measuring general phytotherapeutic practice and one measuring phytotherapeutic knowledge were regressed on the demographic factors.ResultsThe results demonstrate a relationship between a woman’s age and medicinal plant use, but not between age and plant knowledge. Additionally, length of residence in an urban area and on a colonia/farm are not related to medicinal plant knowledge or use. However, length of residence in the seringal/jungle is positively correlated with both medicinal plant knowledge and use.ConclusionsThe results reveal a vibrant tradition of medicinal plant use in Bairro da Luz. They also indicate that when it comes to place of residence and phytotherapy the meaningful distinction is not rural versus urban, it is seringal versus other locations. Finally, the results suggest that phytotherapeutic knowledge and use should be measured separately since one may not be an accurate proxy for the other.

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Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon

Wayland

Walker

2014

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Migration from Pastaza's countryside to Puyo is not caused by modernization of production or land consolidation. Colonists in the Oriente are not forced to leave their land by cattle ranchers and land speculators, as has been reported in the Brazilian Amazon (Bakx 1990; Godfrey 1990; Schmink and Wood 1992). Although ranching is becoming increasingly significant in Pastaza, and 8.73 percent of the farmers control 37.03 percent of the farmland (Laspina 1981), there is no widespread process of involuntary expulsion of small farmers.…”

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Urban–System Evolution on the Frontier of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Ryder

Brown

2000

Geographical Review

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Like the North American frontier, Ecuador's Amazonian margin has advanced in periodic waves. But the impetus has been extremely varied, interlacing periods of socioeconomic crisis with times of prosperity. Recent events in eastern Ecuador confirm that urbanization is a fundamental component of frontier development in South America. The urbanization process is not a sign, however, of regional economic strength. Capital gains at the periphery are transferred to the nation's core region. Even the larger boom towns display little functional specialization; they are, instead, precariously dependent on employment in the public-service sector. Nonetheless, urban centers in the Ecuadorian Amazon continue to grow and to drain surrounding rural areas of younger and more educated individuals. Keywords: Amazon, boom towns, Ecuador, frontier regions, regional development.-_____ 4t,

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“…Nesse contexto, políticas de desenvolvimento da Amazônia trouxeram empreendimentos agro-pecuários, madeireiros, de mineração e de infra-estrutura (hidrelétricas, termelétricas e rodovias). Procurava-se modernizar a Amazônia, e o extrativismo foi sendo tratado como um atraso (ACRE, 2000a;BAKX, 1990).…”

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“…Em dado momento, 60% dos seringueiros acreanos fugiram para os seringais da Bolívia (MENDES, 1990). Houve novo êxodo rural, com a população de Rio Branco quase triplicando em 10 anos (BAKX, 1990).…”

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Politica Ambiental Transversal

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Ao sucesso dos projetos ecológicos e sociais de minha família e amigos, no Ramal do Novo Amparo, Vale do Rio Purus, próximo à Sena Madureira, Acre.Aos amigos Flávia Sousa de Brito e Moyses Rodrigues Vieira Neto para que se abram seus caminhos profissionais nas áreas de Gestão Ambiental e Biologia.Aos verdadeiros ambientalistas e ecologistas residentes no Acre e no Amapá.Aos meus alunos, atuais e futuros, bem como aos leitores dessa Tese, no que ela puder contribuir para sua consciência ecológica.

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The Shanty Town, Final Stage of Rural Development? The Case of Acre

Cited by 8 publications

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Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon

Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon

Urban–System Evolution on the Frontier of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Politica Ambiental Transversal

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