Natural Resource Management in the Brazilian Amazon

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Remote Monitoring for Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon

Participatory Management of Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon

INTRODUCTION The Brazilian Amazon covers an area of approximately 5 million square kilometres, 60% of the country. Its 17 million inhabitants make up a population density of 3.35 inhabitants per square kilometre. In Amazonia, fishing is of fundamental economic, social and cultural importance for the region., producing gross revenues of around US$ 200 million (Petrere, Barthem & Magnawita 1992) ...

Integration of Natural Resource Management in the Primary Education Curriculum in Kenya

The Farmers of the Future (FoF) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. The purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of FoF programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the FoF programme and those not involved. Fur...

Inadequate management of natural ecosystem in the Brazilian Amazon region results in the emergence and reemergence of arboviruses.

A total of 187 different species of arboviruses and other viruses in vertebrates were identified at the Evandro Chagas Institute (IEC) from 1954 to 1998, among more than 10,000 arbovirus strains isolated from humans, hematophagous insects, and wild and sentinel vertebrates. Despite intensive studies in the Brazilian Amazon region, especially in Pará State, very little is known about most of the...