Browsing by Autor "Grenville Barnes"

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Connectivity and Resilience: A Multidimensional Analysis of Infrastructure Impacts in the Southwestern Amazon
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2011) Stephen G. Perz; Alexander Shenkin; Grenville Barnes; Liliana Cabrera; Lucas Araújo Carvalho; Jorge Castillo
Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier
(Elsevier BV, 2015) Christopher Baraloto; Paula Palhares de Polari Alverga; Sufer Báez Quispe; Grenville Barnes; Nino Bejar Chura; Izaias Brasil da Silva; Wendeson Castro; Harrison da Souza; Iracema Elisabeth de Souza Moll; Jim del Alcazar Chilo
Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience: Road Paving and Rural Demographic Change in the Southwestern Amazon
(Wiley, 2010) Stephen G. Perz; Liliana Cabrera; Lucas Araújo Carvalho; Jorge Castillo; Grenville Barnes
Recent years have witnessed an expansion in international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects with the goal of achieving global economic integration. We focus on one such project, the Inter-Oceanic Highway in the “MAP” region, a trinational frontier where Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru meet in the southwestern Amazon. We adopt a resilience approach as an integrative framework to understand various types of road-paving impacts. We focus on migration activity as an indicator of retention of collective memory, a concept associated with resilience. We pursue a comparative analysis of the three sides of the MAP frontier as well as subregions within each side. Since road paving may be mediated by other factors, we distinguish among the effects of multiple explanatory factors. Data come from a multinational survey of rural communities. The findings show considerable net migration and turnover, both indicative of eroding collective memory and a lack of demographic resilience to externally induced change in the MAP frontier. The findings indicate variation across the frontier, which road paving helps explain, along with some of the mediating factors. These findings contribute to the literature on the impacts of new infrastructure and integration as well as the study of social-ecological resilience.
Private and communal lands? The ramifications of ambiguous resource tenure and regional integration in Northern Bolivia
(Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services), 2014) Stephen G. Perz; Grenville Barnes; Alexander Shenkin; Daniel Rojas; Carlos E. Vaca
Major integration initiatives such as large-scale infrastructure projects are moving forward in Latin America, creating the conditions theorized by the ‘evolutionary theory of land rights’ (ETLR) for the shift from communal to private individual tenure. This however assumes a clear distinction between communal and private individual tenure that avoids ambiguities such as those arising from contrasts between de jure tenure rights and de facto practices. We take up these issues by focusing on northern Bolivia, an ambiguous case because groups of families with individual land claims recently received communal titles as ‘independent communities’. This has occurred in areas near a major market integration initiative, the Inter-Oceanic Highway, which has recently been paved. We draw on a survey of households in putatively communal lands in northern Bolivia to evaluate the claims of the ETLR concerning regional integration and formalization of private claims and its consequences. We find evidence of practices consistent with private individual tenure, but they are not related to market integration. Further, indications of formalization of private individual rights do not lead to the outcomes anticipated by the ETLR. These findings call for additional comparative work on integration and tenure.
Social Geomatics: Participatory Forest Mapping to Mediate Resource Conflict in the Bolivian Amazon
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2010) P. Cronkleton; Marco Albornoz; Grenville Barnes; Kristen Evans; Wil de Jong
Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia
(Resilience Alliance, 2014) Christopher Baraloto; Paula Palhares de Polari Alverga; Sufer Báez Quispe; Grenville Barnes; Nino Bejar Chura; Izaias Brasil da Silva; Wendeson Castro; Harrison da Souza; Iracema de Souza Moll; Jim del Alcazar Chilo
Baraloto, C., P. Alverga, S. Baéz Quispe, G. Barnes, N. Bejar Chura, I. Brasil da Silva, W. Castro, H. Da Souza, I. De Souza Moll, J. Del Alcazar Chilo, H. Duenas Linares, J. Garate Quispe, D. Kenji, H. Medeiros, C. A. Rockwell, A. Shenkin, M. Silveira, J. Southworth, G. Vasquez, and S. Perz. 2014. Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 19(4): 56. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06911-190456