We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas
(PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples …

Discussions of land grabs for various purposes, including environmental ends, have
expanded in recent years, yet land grabbing remains inconsistently defined and poorly …

Natural resource-related conflicts can be extremely destructive and undermine
environmental protection. Since the 1990s co-management schemes, whereby the …

Conflicts between indigenous and local communities, on the one hand, and national
protected area administrations on the other are pervasive. A better understanding of these …

An important proportion of Latin America's forests are located in indigenous territories, and
indigenous peoples are the beneficiaries of about 85% of the area for which local rights to …

Energy development–as manifested by the proliferation of hydroelectric dams and increased
oil and gas exploration–is a driver of change in Amazonian ecosystems. However …

Significant tenure reforms have taken place over public forestlands in the past 20 years in
Latin America. These reforms differ from previous tenure reforms with respect to their origins …

This paper examines household adaptive capacity to deal with climatic change among the
Tsimane', an indigenous society of the Bolivian Amazon, and explores how exposure to …

A través de una experiencia etnográfica con el Cabildo Indígena de Puracé (CIP), en el
Resguardo del mismo nombre (RIP), se puede observar cómo la “conservación” ha …

Los conflictos entre las comunidades indígenas y locales, por un lado, y las
administraciones de áreas protegidas, por el otro, son numerosos. Entender mejor estos …