The Brazilian Amazon contains the largest remaining contiguous forest in the tropics, but
also faces strong development pressures and one of the highest rates of deforestation in the …

In the 20 years since the murder of rubber tapper leader Chico Mendes and subsequent
creation of Extractive Reserves (ERs), ERs have become a popular conservation and …

The eastern part of Acre, particularly the Acre River Basin, lies at the westernmost limit of the
development frontier that experienced massive changes in land use since the 1970s. The …

Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and
development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest …

Brazil occupies four-fifths of the Amazon Basin and is home to the world's largest remaining
area of tropical rainforest, 3.5 million square kilometres (km2). Despite three decades of …

The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER) located in Acre, Brazil in the southwest
Amazon is a powerful symbol of the rubber tapper social movement. Created in 1990, the …

The discussions about sustainable development in the Amazon region, in particular the
rubber tree social movement against deforestation and the struggle for land ownership …

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 …

The Amazonian frontier, shaped by developmentalist policies in the 1970s and 1980s and a
socio-environmental response in the 1990s, has historically been a site of widespread …

This article examines how in the past two decades development standards have been
established for the Amazon based on both strengthening environmental governance and …