Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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TCD students co-authors paper in Science about tropical montane rivers
College or Unit Name UF PhD and TCD student Suman Jumani and her co-authors argue that tropical montane rivers serve as sentinels of regional and global change threatened by infrastructure development, pollution, biodiversity loss, conflict over water use, among other human disturbances. Suman is in UF’s Soil and Water Science Department and was part of
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TCD student organizes workshop in Peru on community-based conservation
Last summer with the support of a local grass-root organization, Red AMA, Vanessa Luna organized a 2-day workshop in Chachapoyas, Peru to promote collective discussion on the factors that limit and facilitate the effective management of community-based conservation areas in the northern Peruvian Andes. She brought together leaders from 10 communities and through use of
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Remembering Dr. Wendy Townsend
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Wendy Townsend, an alumna of the University of Florida (UF)’s Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the Center for Latin America’s Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program, passed away on 10 August 2019 after a courageous battle against cancer. For the past
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SNRE & Amazon Dams Network (ADN) joint Seminar on the Grand Inga Dam in the DRC
Please see below the flyer for an upcoming talk on October 14 from 1:55 – 2:45 by UF MDP student Ange Asanzi titled ‘A socio-economic analysis of the world’s largest planned hydropower project: the Grand Inga Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo’, presented by the Amazon Dams Network and the University of Florida School
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TCD student publishes papers with support from TCD Field Research Grant
Congratulations to Ben Lowe and co-authors for two recently published articles. Ben’s work was supported in part from a TCD Field Research grant! Lowe, B. S., Jacobson, S. K., Anold, H., Mbonde, A. S., & Lorenzen, K. (2019). The neglected role of religion in fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/faf.12388 Lowe, B. S., Jacobson, S. K., Anold, H.,
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TCD Faculty leads publication calling for improved policies to address the impacts of small dams in the Amazon
Improving policies and instruments to address cumulative impacts of small hydropower in the Amazon Authors: Simone Athayde, Carla G. Duarte, Amarilis L. C. F. Gallardo, Evandro M. Moretto, Luisa A. Sangoi, Ana Paula A. Dibo, Juliana Siqueira-Gay, Luis E. Sánchez Summary: In this perspective article, we highlight current policy challenges and options for assessing the
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