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TCD students and alumna working together to improve tourism and conservation in the Brazilian Amazon
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TCD students and alumna working together to improve tourism and conservation in the Brazilian Amazon
For a week, TCD students Igor Vianna and Ana Luiza Violato Espada, worked with TCD alumna Paula Pinheiro, to prospect new activities related to canoeing, ecotourism, and naturally protected areas in the Western Brazilian Amazon. Every year, since 2017, Igor Vianna and Ana Luiza organize outrigger paddling expeditions in the Amazonian rivers as a strategy
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TCDsg Conservation & Development Forum on Burning Forests in South America
A recording of the event will be available on the TCD YouTube channel very soon. Thanks to all that contributed to a great event and discussion.
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
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It is not only the Amazon that is burning…
The expanding extractive frontier is leading to the rapid deforestation of the Paraguayan Chaco, creating fragmented forests and raising questions about socio-environmental justice. Photo by Joel E. Correia, 2019. TCD & LAS Faculty, Joel Correia recently published the article “South America’s second-largest forest is also burning – and ‘environmentally friendly’ charcoal is subsidizing its destruction” in
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TCD & MDP Forum: Documenting Socio – Economic – Ecological Collapse in Rural Honduras
If you missed Becky William’s talk, click here to watch the recording. Thursday, Oct 10 @9:30 am in Grinter 471 The “migration crisis” in the US has governments, development organizations, and the public in an uproar over what is causing the migration, who is at fault, and what should be done about it. In this
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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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