Using qualitative approach involving migrants and nonmigrants residing in the surroundings of La Paz, Bolivia, at the foot of the Illimani summit, the paper evaluated the effect of glacial retreat on human migration.
Article investigates the Khuluyo community's vulnerability to climate change through an Intercooperation (IC) for "Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation project.
Project INT/94/P40, executed by the FAO Forestry Department (Community Forestry Group) aims to develop planning and management tools that facilitate the integration of demographic variables in participatory planning exercises geared to community forestry. A key aspect is to enhance the contribution of demographic analysis in the preparation of forestry programmes, through analyses of the the relationship between population dynamics and natural resources in forestry dependent communities.
This paper analyzes population change, land use, and deforestation in the Amazon regions of six countries.
In Acre State, at the western end of Brazil's Amazonian frontier, rural-urban migration produced high urban growth rates and the associated poor peripheries, as well as re-organized rural space. New rural land-uses have developed in recent decades in Acre -- extractive reserves, extractive settlements, national parks, large cattle ranches, and colonization projects. This new construction of space in Amazonia has produced a population that resides permanently neither in cities nor in the forest. This population depends on temporary work and migrates in search of work and land.
In a this study of the land cover and land use practices over the Amazon and Tocantins basins of South America, the authors provided a geographically explicit, fine-scale description of land cover and land use practices, through merging of satellite imagery and agricultural censuses.
