Chapter 14: Amazon in Motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes, and livelihoods
Susanna B. Hecht, Marianne Schmink, Rebecca Neaera Abers, Eduardo Delgado Assad, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Eduardo S. Brondízio, Francisco de Assis Costa, Ana María Durán Calisto, Philip M. Fearnside, Rachael Garrett, Sebastián Heilpern, David McGrath, Gustavo Oliveira, Henrique dos Santos Pereira, Miguel Pinedo-Vazquez
Abstract
This chapter presents the major ideas, actors, and practices that have shaped the Amazon’s current development and deforestation dynamics. Outlining general periods of macro policy, it traces the evolution of today’s complex interactions among diverse livelihoods, conservation, and production systems, both legal and clandestine. It highlights how Amazonians have continuously adapted to changing circumstances while fighting to advance their own proposals for conservation and equity in development.