Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

Local Resource Management and the Global Political Economy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-73786-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood. This book addresses these linkages in a grounded analysis of extractive reserves: areas in Brazil set aside for local populations who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. Extractive reserves are the result of the struggle of the rubber tappers for control over their natural resources and worldwide concern with the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest. The author examines their significance for Brazil as a pioneering legislative and policy initiative to combine conservation with productive use of natural resources, to recognize common property rights to natural resources, and to support traditional populations’ modes of production. Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia examines the formation and institutional sustainability of the reserves, and in so doing provides a valuable insight into the relationship between local institutions and the wider socio-political and economic context with regard to forest management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardoso, Catarina A.S.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; The conceptual framework: common property institutions; National and international developments: their impact on Brazilian Amazonia and its people; The rubber tappers and the development of extractive reserves; Conserving the forest in extractive reserves: an assessment of their legislative framework and external support; A common property institution in practice: the extractive reserve Chico Mendes; The interaction of local, national and international factors in the sustainability of common resources; Supporting local resource management; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Catarina A.S. Cardoso is a lecturer in Economics and Development at the University of Westminster and has worked as an independent consultant for NGOs and other organisations since 1999. She has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, involving long visits to the forests of the rubber tappers.