2018 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award Presentation

Co-management of natural resources in the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, Central-West Brazilian Amazon

Recording of this talk will be available soon

Presentation Summary: Paula’s dissertation examined different perspectives of natural resource governance in the co-management of the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, in the central-western Brazilian Amazon, involving the federal government (ICMBio) and local communities. Through an interdisciplinary approach and employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, she investigated the extent to which co-management permits the sharing of authority over natural resources, and its implications for rule compliance. In a context where communities have management rights, such as in pirarucu management, she examined the role of social capital in facilitating collective action, as well as the multiple factors of social-ecological systems affecting the sustainability of pirarucu management. Her research provided insights relevant to scholarship on extractive reserves, decentralization, common property theory, social capital, and fisheries co-management, with implications for policy making, serving both government and grassroots organizations.

Wednesday , October 23 @ 1 – 2:30 pm *New Time*
Grinter Hall, Room 404