Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon: A review

Menton, Mary; Cronkleton, P.

doi:10.17528/cifor/007305

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“…Likewise, in the Ucayala Region there are 400,000 urban and 100,000 rural resudents (2017). A similar ratio of urbanrural population is also found in the Madre de Dios and San Martin regions [43]. Urbanisation is linked to the development of certain professions and markets, as well as with new settlers arriving in the Amazon.…”

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“…The main push factors on the Pacific coast and in the Andes are the lack of agricultural land, high poverty rates, and poor prospects for employment, while Social Changes in the Peruvian Amazon Due to Foreign Influence DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94772 the main pull factors in the Amazon are cheap and available land, ability to gain ownership of land, perception of economic "climbing", lack of workforce, support from credit programs and tax easements, spread of road infrastructure, and general security [43].…”

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Social Changes in the Peruvian Amazon Due to Foreign Influence

Stiperski¹,

Hruška²

2021

Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia

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The prehistoric Amazon had low numbers of hunter-gatherers due to poor soil and harsh landscape conditions, due to which it was not able to support advanced cultures. The arrival of Christian missionaries, oil companies, and farmers changed the lifestyle of a specific portion of the population, although some indigenous groups still avoid contact with the outside world. Missionaries stimulated changes in the indigenous medical-religious-political systems. In the Peruvian Amazon, the local government is too weak to carry out the usual functions of the state, and therefore oil companies have replaced the state in terms of various functions such as employment, building wells for the drinking water, healthcare, donation of electric generators, and aircraft transport of local indigenous authorities to meetings in Iquitos or Lima. The policies of the national government are turning the Peruvian Amazon into a productive area and are exploiting its natural raw materials. In modernising the Amazon region, however, the world is permanently and irreparably losing valuable knowledge regarding the nature of tropical areas.

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confidence: 53%

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confidence: 99%

Social Changes in the Peruvian Amazon Due to Foreign Influence

Stiperski¹,

Hruška²

2021

Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia

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Decoding the drivers and effects of deforestation in Peru: a national and regional analysis

Móstiga,

Armenteras,

Vayreda

et al. 2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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High deforestation rates in tropical forests of South America lead to biodiversity loss, climate change and alterations in nature’s contributions to people. Deforestation drivers vary across scales due to the heterogeneity of environmental and socioeconomic conditions and forest types. Here, we test the effects of deforestation drivers on deforestation rate from 2000 to 2020 at national and regional scales using Peru as a study case. To do that, we selected nine deforestation drivers commonly used in tropical deforestation analyses. We used the forest cover loss dataset of Global Forest Change to calculate deforestation rates. We conducted five path analyses, one for the national scale and the others for the four regions, using the district as a spatial unit. The national path model explained 34% of the total observed variance and showed that temperature, agriculture, transport network, precipitation, rural population and fire had a positive effect on deforestation, while the slope had a negative effect. The regional path models (63% of the total observed variance in the Coast region, 32% in the Andean, 60% in the High Rainforest and 75% in the Low Rainforest) showed that many national drivers remained at the regional scale. However, we found that the strength, relation (positive/negative) and type (direct/indirect) may vary. Therefore, identifying regional differences in deforestation dynamics is crucial for forest conservation planning and for addressing effective policies in tropical countries. However, improving the quality and availability of national data is essential for further advancing our understanding of this complex process.

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Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon: A review

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Social Changes in the Peruvian Amazon Due to Foreign Influence

Social Changes in the Peruvian Amazon Due to Foreign Influence

Decoding the drivers and effects of deforestation in Peru: a national and regional analysis

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