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2. Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study.
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Morello, Thiago, Lima, Aldo Santos, and da Silva, Rubicleis Gomes
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MEDICAL care ,DIAGNOSTIC use of polymerase chain reaction ,CROSS-sectional method ,SOCIAL impact ,NONLINEAR regression - Abstract
Background: The scarce knowledge about the drivers of demand for respiratory health care in the Brazilian Amazon, where the gap of human and physical health care resources is wide, is expanded with two surveys conducted in the west of the region, in Acre state. Potential drivers, informed by a review of twelve recent papers, were classified into seven categories capturing the individual, household, community and macroeconomic dimensions.Methods: Quantitative field surveys were conducted in 2017 and 2019 based on coupled conglomerate-quota randomization sampling. Adults responded about their own health or their children's health. The probability of seeking physician care for the latest episode of respiratory illness or dry cough was analysed with multiple nonlinear regressions, having as covariates the potential predictors informed by the literature.Results: The propensity to seek health care and to purchase medication was larger for children. Influenza-like illness (Despite the exact diagnostic stated by respondents being "influenza", a virus detection test (such as the PCR test) is not commonly applied, as informed by the Acre state public health service. In consistency, the term "influenza-like illness" is used.) was the most frequently diagnosed disease, followed by pneumonia, suggesting that a health care-seeking rate below 40% may perpetuate health impairment and local contagion. Illnesses' severity, including the pain experienced, was the main predictor, revealing that subjective perception was more influential than objective individual and household characteristics.Conclusions: The results suggest that subjective underestimation of respiratory illnesses' consequences for oneself and for local society could prevent health care from being sought. This is in line with some previous studies but departs from those emphasizing the role of objective factors. Social consequences, of, for instance, a macroeconomic nature, need to be highlighted based on studies detecting long-run relationships among health care demand, health and economic performance at the national level. Depending on the intensity of the trade-off between the costs imposed on the health system by increased demand and on the economy by the reduced productivity of the ill, policy could be adopted to change subjective perceptions of illnesses with nudges and educational and informational interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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3. Evaluation of the CMIP6 Performance in Simulating Precipitation in the Amazon River Basin.
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Monteverde, Corrie, De Sales, Fernando, and Jones, Charles
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WATERSHEDS ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,HYDROLOGIC cycle ,WATER security ,ORTHOGONAL functions - Abstract
The Brazilian Amazon provides important hydrological cycle functions, including precipitation regimes that bring water to the people and environment and are critical to moisture recycling and transport, and represents an important variable for climate models to simulate accurately. This paper evaluates the performance of 13 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models. This is done by discussing results from spatial pattern mapping, Taylor diagram analysis and Taylor skill score, annual climatology comparison, cumulative distribution analysis, and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. Precipitation analysis shows: (1) This region displays higher rainfall in the north-northwest and drier conditions in the south. Models tend to underestimate northern values or overestimate the central to northwest averages. (2) The southern Amazon has a more defined dry season (June, July, and August) and wet season (December, January, and February) and models simulate this well. The northern Amazon dry season tends to occur in August, September, and October and the wet season occurs in March, April, and May, and models are not able to capture the climatology as well. Models tend to produce too much rainfall at the start of the wet season and tend to either over- or under-estimate the dry season, although ensemble means typically display the overall pattern more precisely. (3) Models struggle to capture extreme values of precipitation except when precipitation values are close to 0. (4) EOF analysis shows that models capture the dominant mode of variability, which was the annual cycle or South American Monsoon System. (5) When all evaluation metrics are considered, the models that perform best are CESM2, MIROC6, MRIESM20, SAM0UNICON, and the ensemble mean. This paper supports research in determining the most up-to-date CMIP6 model performance of precipitation regime for 1981–2014 for the Brazilian Amazon. Results will aid in understanding future projections of precipitation for the selected subset of global climate models and allow scientists to construct reliable model ensembles, as precipitation plays a role in many sectors of the economy, including the ecosystem, agriculture, energy, and water security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. Dinâmicas de conhecimento e uso de plantas medicinais em um assentamento rural de Belém do Pará -- PA.
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Correa de Oliveira Melo, Paula Maria, Santos, Ronize da Silva, and Coelho-Ferreira, Marlia
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CULTURAL pluralism ,PLANT communities ,LOCAL knowledge ,SOCIAL influence ,SEMI-structured interviews ,MEDICINAL plants ,PLANT diversity - Abstract
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- 2021
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5. Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge.
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Congretel, Mélanie, Pinton, Florence, and Root‐Bernstein, Meredith
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ENVIRONMENTALISM ,SOCIAL networks ,SUSTAINABILITY ,BIODIVERSITY ,STRUCTURAL analysis (Science) - Abstract
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- 2020
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6. URBANIZAÇÃO EXTENSIVA E RECONFIGURAÇÃO RURAL NA AMAZÔNIA: UMA PROPOSTA TEÓRICOMETODOLÓGICA BASEADA EM INDICADORES DEMOGRÁFICOS E ESPACIAIS.
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Corrêa Côrtes, Julia, de Oliveira D'Antona, Álvaro, and Ojima, Ricardo
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INNER cities ,SEX ratio ,URBANIZATION ,RURALITY ,DISTANCES - Abstract
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- 2020
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7. Assessing the performance of voluntary environmental agreements under high monitoring costs: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon.
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Miranda, Bruno Varella and de Oliveira, Gustavo Magalhães
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DEFERRED prosecution , *TRANSACTION costs , *ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring , *PROPERTY rights , *STANDARD deviations - Abstract
Voluntary environmental arrangements generally coexist with State-based and private rules, creating a property rights system that legitimizes certain behaviors. In a world of positive transaction costs, legitimacy ensues from imperfect monitoring activities, opening room for opportunism. In this paper, we discuss how the existence of multiple rules in a scenario of high monitoring costs affects the performance of an environmental policy. We discuss the case of deferred prosecution agreements (TAC, acronym in Portuguese), which are voluntary arrangements designed with the goal of incentivizing slaughterhouses to monitor the environmental practices of ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. More specifically, we study how the signature of a TAC agreement affects deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazônia Legal region at the municipality level. This paper adopts a difference-in-differences approach to analyze a sample of Brazilian municipalities between 2006 and 2017. Our results, which remain robust across alternative estimators and subsamples, show that the signature of a TAC agreement increases deforestation rates by 0.2 standard deviations. We argue that the signature of a TAC agreement, by creating an imperfect proxy for "good behavior" that enables both compliant and non-compliant organizations to access credit, may incentivize deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices.
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Moffette, Fanny, Phaneuf, Daniel, Rausch, Lisa, and Gibbs, Holly K.
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PROPERTY rights ,ENVIRONMENTAL compliance ,NATURAL language processing ,REAL property sales & prices ,LAND titles - Abstract
• We analyze 12,000 parcels in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes. • Scraped weekly, our data come from online advertisements of land sale offers. • Hedonic analysis reveals low net benefits from formal private property rights. • Environmental compliance with the Forest Code does not alter parcel prices. • Results highlight challenges to property entitlement and environmental compliance. Lack of property rights is associated with lower investment, development, and welfare. In the Brazilian Amazon, insecure property rights have historically led to civil conflicts and deforestation, which would be expected to provide incentives for landowners to seek formal title. In this paper, we construct a novel database of land prices in Brazil to measure the market value of formal title to land and compliance with environmental regulation. Using online advertisements of land sale offers scraped from a widely used seller's platform, we first estimate a hedonic model that regresses the last offer price on property attributes such as farm-level agricultural production, land characteristics, structure amenities, and capital equipment included in the offer, as well as spatial and temporal fixed effects. We use this hedonic model to examine how property rights and environmental compliance capitalize into land prices across the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. Our main results imply low net benefits from property rights and low net benefits from compliance with the central Brazilian regulation that aims to maintain forest cover, the Forest Code. Finally, we estimate a duration model that follows the sequence of weekly offers for a specific property until it sells. Our findings show that parcels compliant with the Forest Code sell 46 % faster in the Amazon, while entitled properties in the Cerrado sell 9 % faster, unless they are compliant with the Forest Code, which requires a substantial portion of the property to be under native vegetation cover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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9. Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon Threatened by Cycles of Property Registration, Cattle Ranching, and Deforestation.
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Candino, Malena, Brandão Jr., A., Munger, J., Rausch, L., and Gibbs, H. K.
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PRIVATE property ,FOREST conservation ,RANCHING ,RANCHES ,TRANSACTION records - Abstract
Protected areas (PAs) in the Brazilian Amazon have proven to be critical in preserving the rainforest but face increasing threats. Since 2019, illegal activities and land conflicts involving PAs have escalated due to the weakening of environmental institutions. Therefore, up-to-date research is needed to evaluate agricultural pressures on PAs—including Sustainable Use Areas, Indigenous Territories, and Strictly Protected Areas—given its importance in driving deforestation in the Amazon, and to identify hotspots of concern. We analyzed property registration, deforestation, pasture expansion, and cattle transaction records within 158 PAs in the Brazilian state of Pará, which holds most of the remaining forest and the highest rates of deforestation. Our findings show that nearly a quarter of Pará's 2019–2022 deforestation occurred within PAs, undermining their effectiveness as conservation tools. Despite prohibitions, we found illegally registered private properties in most PA categories including indigenous territories and over a 100% increase in deforestation within PAs from 2015–2018. Over 90% of PAs contained pasturelands in 2022, but only half of them had registered cattle transactions within their borders, which suggests the presence of clandestine cattle activities in these areas as well. Indirect sales to slaughterhouses coming from PAs increased during the study period, potentially due to efforts by ranchers to obscure such cattle origins from companies that are increasingly monitoring their direct suppliers. Finally, we identified 17 high-risk PAs concentrating most threats. Focusing monitoring efforts on property registries and cattle transactions in these areas could significantly reduce illegal deforestation and illegal cattle ranching. While PAs are considered to be cornerstones of forest conservation efforts, our findings show that current policies fail to prevent cycles of land grabbing, illegal ranching, and deforestation that can eventually lead to the downgrading, downsizing, and degazetting of PAs. Given this context, validating property claims, tracing cattle sales, and penalizing deforestation are urgently needed to halt these cycles that threaten PAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Povo Paiter e a utilização de tecnologias para a gestão da Terra Indígena Sete de Setembro, RO.
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Suruí, Gasodá, de Almeida Silva, Adnilson, and Torres Rodriguez, Martin Ignácio
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- 2019
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11. The GSTP1 rs1695 Polymorphism Is Associated with Mercury Levels and Neurodevelopmental Delay in Indigenous Munduruku Children from the Brazilian Amazon.
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Silva, Mayara Calixto da, Basta, Paulo Cesar, Hofer, Cristina Barroso, Oliveira, Mirian Akiko Furutani de, Kempton, Joeseph William, Oliveira, Rogério Adas Ayres de, Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago de, and Perini, Jamila Alessandra
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INDIGENOUS children ,GENETIC polymorphisms ,POLYMORPHISM (Zoology) ,MERCURY vapor ,NEURAL development ,MERCURY ,GENETIC counseling - Abstract
Genetic polymorphisms may influence mercury (Hg) toxicity. The aims of this study were to evaluate individual factors, such as the presence of the GSTP1 rs1695 polymorphism, associated with internal Hg dose and child neurodevelopment in indigenous people from the Brazilian Amazon chronically exposed to Hg. Eighty-two indigenous children were clinically evaluated, hair Hg was measured, and the GSTP1 rs1695 polymorphism was genotyped. The mean age was 4.8 years, the median Hg was 5.5 µg/g, and 93.8% of children exceeded the safe limit (2.0 µg/g). Fish consumption was associated with Hg levels (p = 0.03). The GSTP1 rs1695 A>G polymorphism was in the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and the highest prevalence of the GSTP1 AA genotype (80%) was found in Sawré Aboy, which had the highest Hg levels (10 µg/g) among the studied villages. The Hg levels tended to increase over the years in males and in carriers of the GSTP1 AA genotype (0.69 µg/g and 0.86 µg/g, respectively). Nine children failed the neurodevelopmental test, all of whom had Hg > 2.0 µg/g, and 88.9% carried the GSTP1 AA or AG genotypes, previously associated with the highest internal Hg doses and neurocognitive disorders. The genetic counseling of this population is important to identify the individuals at greater risk for neurodevelopmental disorders resulting from chronic Hg exposure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. O ACORDO VERDE PARA A AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA.
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Pinheiro Braga, Erwin Di Tarso and Alcântara Alencar, Douglas
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The fast climate change that is felt on the planet, evidenced by the unsustainable scenario of waste generated by the current sources and loss of biodiversity, shows the necessity of changes in the energetic and material sources. Within the scope of these discussions, the Amazon is always seen as a crucial point. In this scenario, this paper proposes a green accord for the Brazilian Amazon. Therefore, it is analyzed the preservation of the Amazon, the contextualization of the necessity of changes on the economy and the Modern Monetary Theory as supportive of this governance of economic transition, placed per suggestions and proposals in that green accord. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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13. Evaluation of the CMIP6 Performance in Simulating Precipitation in the Amazon River Basin
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Corrie Monteverde, Fernando De Sales, and Charles Jones
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Brazilian Amazon ,South America ,precipitation ,global climate models (GCMs) ,Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) ,CHIRPS ,Science - Abstract
The Brazilian Amazon provides important hydrological cycle functions, including precipitation regimes that bring water to the people and environment and are critical to moisture recycling and transport, and represents an important variable for climate models to simulate accurately. This paper evaluates the performance of 13 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models. This is done by discussing results from spatial pattern mapping, Taylor diagram analysis and Taylor skill score, annual climatology comparison, cumulative distribution analysis, and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. Precipitation analysis shows: (1) This region displays higher rainfall in the north-northwest and drier conditions in the south. Models tend to underestimate northern values or overestimate the central to northwest averages. (2) The southern Amazon has a more defined dry season (June, July, and August) and wet season (December, January, and February) and models simulate this well. The northern Amazon dry season tends to occur in August, September, and October and the wet season occurs in March, April, and May, and models are not able to capture the climatology as well. Models tend to produce too much rainfall at the start of the wet season and tend to either over- or under-estimate the dry season, although ensemble means typically display the overall pattern more precisely. (3) Models struggle to capture extreme values of precipitation except when precipitation values are close to 0. (4) EOF analysis shows that models capture the dominant mode of variability, which was the annual cycle or South American Monsoon System. (5) When all evaluation metrics are considered, the models that perform best are CESM2, MIROC6, MRIESM20, SAM0UNICON, and the ensemble mean. This paper supports research in determining the most up-to-date CMIP6 model performance of precipitation regime for 1981–2014 for the Brazilian Amazon. Results will aid in understanding future projections of precipitation for the selected subset of global climate models and allow scientists to construct reliable model ensembles, as precipitation plays a role in many sectors of the economy, including the ecosystem, agriculture, energy, and water security.
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- 2022
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14. Clinical, Laboratory and Neurodevelopmental Findings in Children from the Yanomami-Ninam Population Chronically Exposed to Methylmercury.
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Jacques, Adriana Duringer, Furutani de Oliveira, Mirian Akiko, da Silva, Mayara Calixto, Hofer, Cristina Barroso, and Basta, Paulo Cesar
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INDIGENOUS children ,METHYLMERCURY ,NEURAL development ,INTELLIGENCE tests ,GOLD miners ,INTELLIGENCE levels ,FOOD consumption - Abstract
Despite legal safeguards, the Yanomami community faces challenges such as unauthorized incursions by gold miners, resulting in environmental degradation, particularly from mercury. This jeopardizes the health and food security of indigenous individuals, especially due to the consumption of contaminated fish. Ethnic and racial disparities persist in indigenous healthcare, marked by troubling health indicators such as malnutrition, anemia, and infectious diseases. This cross-sectional study, conducted in October 2022 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Amazon Forest, Brazil, presented clinical, laboratory, and neurodevelopmental findings in Yanomami children chronically exposed to methylmercury. The results revealed that Yanomami children exhibited weights and heights below expectations (median Z-scores of −1.855 for weight for age and −2.7 for height for age), a high prevalence of anemia (25%), low vaccination coverage (15%), and low IQ (average 68.6). The Total Hair Mercury (Total Hg) levels ranged from 0.16 µg/g to 10.20 µg/g (mean: 3.30 µg/g; median: 3.70 µg/g). Of 117 children tested, 93 children (79.4%) had levels ≥ 2.0 µg/g (had no significant difference between sex). Among the 58 children for whom it was possible to estimate the Total Intelligence Quotient (TIQ), the average value was 68.6, ranging from 42 to 92 points (median: 69.5; standard deviation: 10.5). Additionally, the lowest score on the IQ test was associated with 5 times the risk of having high levels of mercury in their hair, 2,5 fold the risk of having an older age, and almost 8 times the risk of consuming fish, adjusting for nut consumption. Notwithstanding the study's limitations, results suggest that mercury contamination from illegal mining activities on indigenous lands may negatively impact neurodevelopment in older indigenous children, particularly those fish consumers, despite the inherent benefits of fish consumption. Addressing other socio-environmental concerns is crucial for enhancing the overall health of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. The Selvester QRS score as an estimative of myocardial injury in acute chagasic patients from the Brazilian Amazon
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do Nascimento Couceiro, Katia, Ortiz, Jessica Vanina, do Nascimento Correia, Michael, da Silva e Silva, Mônica Regina Hosannah, Brandão, Alba Regina, da Silva, Paula Rita Leite, Doria, Susan Smith, Bestetti, Reinaldo Bulgarelli, de Sousa, Débora Raysa Teixeira, da Silva Junior, Rubens Celso Andrade, das Graças Vale Barbosa Guerra, Maria, Ferreira, João Marcos Bemfica Barbosa, and de Oliveira Guerra, Jorge Augusto
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- 2021
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16. Multi-level Governance of Land Use Changes in the Brazilian Amazon: Lessons from Paragominas, State of Pará.
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Piketty, Marie-Gabrielle, Poccard-Chapuis, René, Drigo, Isabel, Coudel, Emilie, Plassin, Sophie, Laurent, François, and Thâles, Marcelo
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LAND use ,FORESTS & forestry ,REFORESTATION ,RESTORATION ecology ,GREEN business ,SUPPLY chains - Abstract
Land use governance in the Brazilian Amazon has undergone significant changes in the last decade. At the national level, law enforcement capacity has increased and downstream industries linked to commodity chains responsible for deforestation have begun to monitor some of their suppliers' impacts on forests. At the municipal level, local actors have launched a Green Municipality initiative, aimed at eliminating deforestation and supporting green supply chains at the territorial level. In this paper, we analyze the land use transition since 2001 in Paragominas—the first Green Municipality—and discuss the limits of the governance arrangements underpinning these changes. Our work draws on a spatially explicit analysis of biophysical variables and qualitative information collected in interviews with key private and public stakeholders of the main commodity chains operating in the region. We argue that, up to now, the emerging multi-level scheme of land governance has not succeeded in promoting large-scale land use intensification, reforestation and rehabilitation of degraded lands. Moreover, private governance mechanisms based on improved product standards, fail to benefit from potential successful partnerships between the public and private sector at the territorial level. We propose a governance approach that adopts a broader territorial focus as a way forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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17. Checklist de Bromeliaceae da região da Volta Grande do Xingu, Pará, Brasil.
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Koch, Ana Kelly, Monteiro, Raquel F., and Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza
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- 2015
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18. Air Transportation Income and Price Elasticities in Remote Areas: The Case of the Brazilian Amazon Region.
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Ventura, Rodrigo V., Cabo, Manoela, Caixeta, Rafael, Fernandes, Elton, and Aprigliano Fernandes, Vicente
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The literature, aimed at understanding the income–price elasticity of air passenger demand, bases its analysis on airport movement. The diversity of studies regarding the casualty between air transportation and economic growth are examples. Some studies covering this link, estimate the income–price relationship with the demand considering international traffic. Considering a domestic setting, where this traffic is significant in Brazil, studies related to remote regions are scarce, and the existing ones focus on governmental policies and subsidies. In addition, empirical studies on the theme consenter themselves in developed regions, such as Europe, North America, and Australia. For Brazil, where we find the Amazon region, there is no empirical research. This paper analyses the price–income elasticity of the demand regarding domestic passengers in air links from remote cities of the Brazilian Amazon. This study uses panel data regression analysis method on a database of domestic scheduled flights of Brazil´s National Civil Aviation Agency. The results show that air passengers involving remote region flights present a lower sensitivity regarding local income and an airline´s price variations than those in flights among capitals. The higher difference is in the income elasticity of the remote city of origin, which is lower than that of the air traffic among capitals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. Foregrounding Amazonian women through decolonial and process-relational perspectives for transdisciplinary transformation.
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Sonetti-González, Taís, Mancilla García, María, Tengö, Maria, Tourne, Daiana C. M., de Castro, Fábio, and Futemma, Célia R. T.
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DECOLONIZATION ,COVID-19 pandemic ,SUSTAINABILITY ,FOREGROUNDING ,PRAXIS (Process) - Abstract
The vulnerability of the Amazon has widely increased with the COVID-19 global pandemic and with the dismantlement of environmental protection policies in Brazil during the Bolsonaro administration. By contrast, local initiatives focusing on sustainable production, conservation, enhancing local people's quality of life, and supporting a more inclusive economy have emerged throughout the region and are building resilience in face of these disruptions. They represent seeds for transformation towards more sustainable trajectories from the ground up. In this context, women play a significant role, but their actions and voices are poorly understood, studied, or even considered. In this article, we use a novel approach to engage and highlight women's experiences by connecting decolonial and process-relational perspectives. Decolonial and process-relational thinking are closely linked in many ways, including in that they embrace difference as a mode of experiencing social-ecological relations. One particular aspect of this link is the shared focus on liminal thinking or thinking from the borders, what we call 'betweenness'. In our decolonial praxis, we highlight women's perspectives on their particular and diverse ways of life in the Amazon as they confront diverse pressures. To this end, we collaborated with 39 women from Santarém and neighboring towns in western Pará through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and facilitated dialogues. We discuss their perspectives on regional transformation, particularly the expansion of large-scale agribusiness around rural communities, and their understanding and responses to these changes. We reflect on the mutual learning experience resulting from the transdisciplinary engagement between researchers and collaborators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being.
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Carmenta, Rachel, Steward, Angela, Albuquerque, Adrielly, Carneiro, Renan, Vira, Bhaskar, and Estrada Carmona, Natalia
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WELL-being ,SOCIAL dominance ,NATURAL resources ,QUALITY of life ,FOREST reserves ,PROTECTED areas - Abstract
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- 2023
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21. Sustainability of Colonist Land Uses in the Amazon: A Demo-Livelihoods Perspective.
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Barbieri, Alisson F.
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Amazon, the largest global tropical forest, is central to counterbalance the effects of climate change. However, the extant literature has not fully explained the effects of demographic changes on land use and livelihoods sustainability that reconciles production and conservation. Using a case study of 28 years in the Brazilian Amazon, this article provided novel empirical evidences on the co-evolution of household demographic dynamics (composition and life cycles), land use and livelihoods as depicted by the demo-livelihoods theoretical framework. Methods of analysis involve the combination of exploratory (descriptive, cluster and correlation) and a multivariate hazard model. The results validated the demo-livelihoods theory and showed that livelihoods adaptation over time involves diversification combining perennials and cattle ranching, land consolidation and off-farm strategies (remittances, wage labor, cash transfers). These strategies are conditioned by demographic dynamics. Households are less likely to diversify livelihoods with annual crops due to unsustainable environmental conditions and costs associated with land intensification and market accessibility. While diversification historically occur at the expense of primary forest, household ageing may create a momentum to limit deforestation and allows the future incorporation of plot-based natural capital as a source of diversified, sustainable land uses and livelihoods for carbon emissions and bioeconomy markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. Are Brazil deforesters avoiding detection? Reply to Richards et al. 2016.
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Bustamante, Mercedes M. C., Valeriano, Dalton, Almeida, Claudio Aparecido, Cantinho, Roberta Zecchini, Maurano, Luiz Eduardo Pinheiro, Nobre, Carlos A., Oliveira, Pedro V. C., Ometto, Jean P., Roitman, Iris, Rojas, Márcio, Santos, Mauro Meirelles, and Shimbo, Julia Zanin
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DEFORESTATION ,CONTROL of deforestation ,FOREST monitoring ,WILDLIFE conservation ,FOREST policy - Abstract
The paper 'Are Brazil deforesters avoiding detection?' recently published in Conservation Letters by Richards et al. 2016 has critical shortcomings and conclusions based on biased and not very robust analyses. Here, we provide clarifications to some of the most critical points regarding the monitoring of land use changes in the Brazilian Amazon and related greenhouse emissions. Such clarifications are relevant to the readers of Conservation Letters and to a broader audience that rely on sound and robust science for a better management of environmental issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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23. Entangled collectives: riverine people, landscapes, and emerged infrastructures on a climate change background
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Aline Radaelli and Júlia Menin
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Brazilian Amazon ,riverine people ,infrastructures ,landscapes ,climate change ,Amazônia brasileira ,Technology (General) ,T1-995 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article seeks to discuss the associations elaborated by riverine interlocutors between infrastructures and the landscape in which they occur, within the context of climate change in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Here, we debate the relational character of infrastructures, and how they act as important markers of river seasonality, landscape, people’s existence, and practices from the perspective of the accessed riverine people. This paper’s discussion is supported by qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and field notes from two riverine communities in the Amazonas state: Tumbira and Lago do Catalão. Inspired by authors who dialogue with Social Studies of Science and Technology and discuss infrastructures, their effects, their relational and ontological character, we seek to identify entanglements of landscape and infrastructure, and their implications in the practices and ways of living of riverine Amazonian people. Elements such as gas pipelines, power transmission lines, hydroelectric plants, cargo ships, and highways emerge, affect, and are affected in these entangled landscapes in the eyes of the riverine people. They merge with other entanglements such as the rivers and creeks that perform the riverine landscape and life. Thus, they induce reflections on such relationships and the affectations permeated by fears, wishes, and (dis)trust of their operation.
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- 2023
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24. Mapping Slaughterhouse Supply Zones in the Brazilian Amazon with Cattle Transit Records.
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Brandão Jr., Amintas, Rausch, Lisa, Munger, Jacob, and Gibbs, Holly K.
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CATTLE breeds ,SUSTAINABILITY ,FOREST conservation ,SLAUGHTERING ,CATTLE carcasses ,CATTLE ,SUPPLY chains ,ZOOARCHAEOLOGY - Abstract
Mapping slaughterhouse supply zones is crucial for assessing cattle concentration, environmental impact, and promoting sustainable practices. This study combines cattle transit records (GTA in Portuguese) with rural property boundaries (CAR in Portuguese) to map these zones in the Brazilian Amazon. It evaluates the influence of Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements (CA) and explores the overlap between CA and non−CA slaughterhouse supply zones. Results reveal that CA slaughterhouse supply zones significantly impact forest preservation and cover a large area equivalent to entire municipalities. Over two-thirds of the study region, including most non-protected areas, falls within these zones. There is a high degree of overlap (95%) with non−CA supply zones, indicating competition for suppliers and limited expansion potential for CA. Direct and indirect suppliers are located nearby, with approximately 80% of indirect suppliers within 100 km of direct suppliers. Consequently, supply zones for both types of suppliers largely overlap. These findings demonstrate that assessing slaughterhouse deforestation risk for the entire supply chain in our study region can be achieved by mapping only the direct suppliers. This research provides valuable insights into cattle concentration, the effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments, and the need for sustainable practices in the slaughterhouse industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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25. Fishers' Knowledge Reveals Ecological Interactions Between Fish and Plants in High Diverse Tropical Rivers
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Pereyra, Paula Evelyn Rubira, Hallwass, Gustavo, Begossi, Alpina, Giacomin, Leandro Lacerda, and Silvano, Renato Azevedo Matias
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26. O PAPEL DAS LOCALIDADES NA URBANIZAÇÃO ESTENDIDA DA AMAZÔNIA CONTEMPORÂNEA: TIPOLOGIA DAS COMUNIDADES DO SUDOESTE DO PARÁ ENQUANTO NÓS DE UMA REDE URBANA LOCAL.
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Amaral, Silvana and Paula Dal'Asta, Ana
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This paper highlights the contribution of the localities, or communities, to the configuration of the urban network in the Brazilian Amazon. The theoretical framework is based on the extended urbanization concept, comprising spatial units with different territorial occupation typology. It is presented a study of the communities located in the southwestern part of the state of Pará as nodes of an urban network on a local scale. Besides the characterization and hierarchy, it was also verified if the nodes classification varies according to the spatial context: communities inside or outside a conservation unit (UC); or located along rivers (riverside) or roads (roadside). From 2009 to 2015, annual field trips allowed the characterization of 236 communities regarding the population origin and organization, the presence of urban infrastructure and equipment, the access to health and education services, and the land use forms, that were summarized in 28 variables. The multivariate statistical evaluation (Hotelling's T² test) indicated that communities inside an UC presented variables mean values significantly different from those outside. This emphasizes the importance of land use regulation for general community conditions. The fuzzy inference for statistical groupings analysis indicated five clusters, ranked according to the communities' conditions from best (Fuzzy 1) to worse (Fuzzy 5) conditions, identified by the variables. These clusters were described and evaluated considering their temporal evolution, geographical distribution and the variables importance, and were also compared to previous studies. The higher frequency of roadside communities in cluster Fuzzy 1, in opposition to the higher frequency of riverside communities in Fuzzy 5 and Fuzzy 2 (of intermediate conditions) indicated that roadside communities were better structured than riverside ones. These results portray the communities as elements of common and particular aspects, in a hierarchical typology of their attributes, providing useful information for the definition of regional conservation and sustainability policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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27. Ideologías geográficas y producción de la naturaleza: elementos para pensar la resignación de los bosques frente a la crisis del capital.
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De Matheus, Luis Fernando and Cornetta, Andrei
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This paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil's eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. We argue that in the contemporary crisis of capitalism (which has been misunderstood by many observers as an environmental crisis), an array of new commodities have emerged. These processes of commodification have been marked by the commodification of "environmental services"and the creation of more private nature reserves creating value in new ways marked by scarcity and unique natural attractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Ideologías geográficas y producción de la naturaleza: elementos para pensar la resignación de los bosques frente a la crisis del capital.
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Fernando De Matheus, Luis and Cornetta, Andrei
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This paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil's eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. We argue that in the contemporary crisis of capitalism (which has been misunderstood by many observers as an environmental crisis), an array of new commodities have emerged. These processes of commodification have been marked by the commodification of "environmental services" and the creation of more private nature reserves creating value in new ways marked by scarcity and unique natural attractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. From Field Data to Ecosystem Services Maps: Using Regressions for the Case of Deforested Areas Within the Amazon
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Le Clec’h, Solen, Jégou, Nicolas, Decaens, Thibaud, Dufour, Simon, Grimaldi, Michel, and Oszwald, Johan
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30. Comparative Analysis of the Global Forest/Non-Forest Maps Derived from SAR and Optical Sensors. Case Studies from Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado Biomes.
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Sano, Edson E., Rizzoli, Paola, Koyama, Christian N., Watanabe, Manabu, Adami, Marcos, Shimabukuro, Yosio E., Bayma, Gustavo, Freitas, Daniel M., and Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo
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OPTICAL remote sensing ,RAIN forests ,OPTICAL sensors ,SYNTHETIC aperture radar ,BIOMES ,GLOBAL analysis (Mathematics) ,AIRBORNE lasers ,GUT microbiome - Abstract
Global-scale forest/non-forest (FNF) maps are of crucial importance for applications like biomass estimation and deforestation monitoring. Global FNF maps based on optical remote sensing data have been produced by the wall-to-wall satellite image analyses or sampling strategies. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) also made available their global FNF maps based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. This paper attempted to answer the following scientific question: how comparable are the FNF products derived from optical and SAR data? As test sites we selected the Amazon (tropical rainforest) and Cerrado (tropical savanna) biomes, the two largest Brazilian biomes. Forest estimations from 2015 derived from TanDEM-X (X band; HH polarization) and ALOS-2 (L band; HV polarization) SAR data, as well as forest cover information derived from Landsat 8 optical data were compared with each other at the municipality and image sampling levels. The optical-based forest estimations considered in this study were derived from the MapBiomas project, a Brazilian multi-institutional project to map land use and land cover (LULC) classes of an entire country based on historical time series of Landsat data. In addition to the existing forest maps, a set of 1619 Landsat 8 RGB color composites was used to generate new independent comparison data composed of circular areas with 5-km diameter, which were visually interpreted after image segmentation. The Spearman rank correlation estimated the correlation among the data sets and the paired Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon tested the hypothesis that the data sets are statistically equal. Results showed that forest maps derived from SAR and optical satellites are statistically different regardless of biome or scale of study (municipality or image sampling), except for the Cerrado´s forest estimations derived from TanDEM-X and ALOS-2. Nevertheless, the percentage of pixels classified as forest or non-forest by both SAR sensors were 90% and 80% for the Amazon and Cerrado biome, respectively, indicating an overall good agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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31. Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study
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Thiago Morello, Aldo Santos Lima, and Rubicleis Gomes da Silva
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Respiratory illnesses ,Health care seeking ,Econometrics ,Brazilian Amazon ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Abstract Background The scarce knowledge about the drivers of demand for respiratory health care in the Brazilian Amazon, where the gap of human and physical health care resources is wide, is expanded with two surveys conducted in the west of the region, in Acre state. Potential drivers, informed by a review of twelve recent papers, were classified into seven categories capturing the individual, household, community and macroeconomic dimensions. Methods Quantitative field surveys were conducted in 2017 and 2019 based on coupled conglomerate-quota randomization sampling. Adults responded about their own health or their children’s health. The probability of seeking physician care for the latest episode of respiratory illness or dry cough was analysed with multiple nonlinear regressions, having as covariates the potential predictors informed by the literature. Results The propensity to seek health care and to purchase medication was larger for children. Influenza-like illness (Despite the exact diagnostic stated by respondents being “influenza”, a virus detection test (such as the PCR test) is not commonly applied, as informed by the Acre state public health service. In consistency, the term “influenza-like illness” is used.) was the most frequently diagnosed disease, followed by pneumonia, suggesting that a health care-seeking rate below 40% may perpetuate health impairment and local contagion. Illnesses’ severity, including the pain experienced, was the main predictor, revealing that subjective perception was more influential than objective individual and household characteristics. Conclusions The results suggest that subjective underestimation of respiratory illnesses’ consequences for oneself and for local society could prevent health care from being sought. This is in line with some previous studies but departs from those emphasizing the role of objective factors. Social consequences, of, for instance, a macroeconomic nature, need to be highlighted based on studies detecting long-run relationships among health care demand, health and economic performance at the national level. Depending on the intensity of the trade-off between the costs imposed on the health system by increased demand and on the economy by the reduced productivity of the ill, policy could be adopted to change subjective perceptions of illnesses with nudges and educational and informational interventions.
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32. Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase and Fatty Acid Composition in Theobroma grandiflorum Seeds.
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Itriago Yanesa, Casandra Valentina, de Melo Filho, Antonio Alves, Estevam Ribeiroa, Pedro Rômulo, Gonçalves Reis Melo, Ana Cristina, Takahashi, Jacqueline Aparecida, Ferraz, Vany Perpetua, Sagama Mozombite, Diana Maruja, and Carvalho dos Santos, Ricardo
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THEOBROMA grandiflorum ,FRUIT trees ,STERCULIACEAE ,SEEDS ,FOOD industry - Abstract
Theobroma grandiflorum is an important fruit tree from Sterculiaceae family, native to the Brazilian Amazon, known in the region as cupuaçu. The seeds have a high fat content (24%) with characteristics that resemble those of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) butter with potential applications in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and food industries. The main objective of this work was to explore the seed fats from T. grandiflorum that were analyzed for fatty acid composition by Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID) and to analyze their activity for acetylcholinesterase inhibition. Chromatographic analysis provided detection of nine fatty acids. The major fatty acids found in the species were oleic (40.0%), stearic (32.7%), arachidic (10.4%) and palmitic (8.0%). The acetylcholinesterase inhibition by fats from seeds was over 40.48%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Estimating babassu palm density using automatic palm tree detection with very high spatial resolution satellite images.
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dos Santos, Alessio Moreira, Mitja, Danielle, Delaître, Eric, Demagistri, Laurent, de Souza Miranda, Izildinha, Libourel, Thérèse, and Petit, Michel
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High spatial resolution images as well as image processing and object detection algorithms are recent technologies that aid the study of biodiversity and commercial plantations of forest species. This paper seeks to contribute knowledge regarding the use of these technologies by studying randomly dispersed native palm tree. Here, we analyze the automatic detection of large circular crown (LCC) palm tree using a high spatial resolution panchromatic GeoEye image (0.50 m) taken on the area of a community of small agricultural farms in the Brazilian Amazon. We also propose auxiliary methods to estimate the density of the LCC palm tree Attalea speciosa (babassu) based on the detection results. We used the “Compt-palm” algorithm based on the detection of palm tree shadows in open areas via mathematical morphology techniques and the spatial information was validated using field methods (i.e. structural census and georeferencing). The algorithm recognized individuals in life stages 5 and 6, and the extraction percentage, branching factor and quality percentage factors were used to evaluate its performance. A principal components analysis showed that the structure of the studied species differs from other species. Approximately 96% of the babassu individuals in stage 6 were detected. These individuals had significantly smaller stipes than the undetected ones. In turn, 60% of the stage 5 babassu individuals were detected, showing significantly a different total height and a different number of leaves from the undetected ones. Our calculations regarding resource availability indicate that 6870 ha contained 25,015 adult babassu palm tree, with an annual potential productivity of 27.4 t of almond oil. The detection of LCC palm tree and the implementation of auxiliary field methods to estimate babassu density is an important first step to monitor this industry resource that is extremely important to the Brazilian economy and thousands of families over a large scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. URBANIZAÇÃO, DISPERSÃO URBANA E ESTRUTURA INTRAURBANA DE CIDADES INTERMEDIÁRIAS DA AMAZÔNIA: O CASO DE ALTAMIRA (PA).
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Arbage Lobo, Marco Aurélio, Zagury Tourinho, Helena Lúcia, and Nery da Costa, Ériko Fabrício
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Brazilian Amazon, even though internationally known for the exuberance of its natural ecosystem and its traditional communities, has been undergoing intense urbanization process, which is leading to significant population growth of intermediate cities of regional urban network, among other consequences. This study aims to investigate whether this urbanization, like other cities in Brazil, is promoting urban sprawl or not in an important sub-regional center in the Amazon region, Altamira, seeking to identify factors that contribute to the occurrence of the phenomenon. It also aims to determine whether, in this process, there is some significant change in the configuration of intra-urban structure of the city. The review of literature found that the research on urban sprawl is already significant in large cities, but it is still scarce in intermediate cities in the urban network, hence the importance of the contribution of this work to the literature on the subject. The empirical analysis was based upon the construction of a geographic information system (GIS), which integrated spatial information with statistical data from demographic censuses of 2000 and 2010, as well as field research. The paper concludes that there was intense process of urban sprawl in Altamira between 2000 and 2010 without significant changes in the configuration of intra-urban structure, and that the emphasis on horizontal real estate projects aimed at high-income families as the main cause of urban sprawl, needs to be reviewed in the case of intermediate cities. It is also necessary to give importance to other factors such as: the implementation of human settlements in the outskirts for classes of low and medium-low incomes; the new forms of urban mobility that are being used by families residing in these locations; and the effects of reducing the average number of people per household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. A New Record of a Nonnative Bivalve Species in an Amazonian Environmental Protection Area: What Might Have Happened?
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de Oliveira, Claudia Antonia Campos Rodrigues, Palheta, Dulcidéia da Conceição, Trindade, Diego Gomes, Rodrigues, Tatiane Medeiros, and Bentes, Bianca
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INTRODUCED species ,CORBICULA fluminea ,FRESHWATER habitats ,PROTECTED areas ,SPECIES distribution ,PERNA ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
Corbicula fluminea is an Asian mussel that has aggressively invaded freshwater habitats worldwide, causing damage both economically and with the disappearance of native species. In Brazil, this species is present in almost all watersheds, including areas of Federal Conservation Units. In this context, the present work reported the first record of C. fluminea in the Carajás mosaic, Pará, Brazil, a Federal Conservation Area. Collections were made in September and February 2021 and May 2022. In total, 154 specimens of C. fluminea were collected. The size range of the specimens was 16 to 28 mm in shell length and 1.46 to 5.91 g in wet weight. This new record extends the distribution of this species in South America and in the tropical watersheds of Brazil and is the first record in federal protected areas, highlighting the need for large-scale knowledge of the environmental and economic changes that the species can cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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36. Chronic Mercury Exposure and GSTP1 Polymorphism in Munduruku Indigenous from Brazilian Amazon.
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Silva, Mayara Calixto da, Oliveira, Rogério Adas Ayres de, Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago de, Rebouças, Bruno Hojo, Pinto, Bruna Duarte, Lima, Marcelo de Oliveira, Jesus, Iracina Maura de, Machado, Daniel Escorsim, Hacon, Sandra Souza, Basta, Paulo Cesar, and Perini, Jamila Alessandra
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INDIGENOUS peoples of South America ,MERCURY ,GENETIC profile ,GENETIC polymorphisms ,GENE frequency ,LOGISTIC regression analysis - Abstract
Genetic polymorphisms may be involved with mercury levels and signs and symptoms of intoxication from this exposure. Therefore, the aims were to describe the frequency of the GSTP1 polymorphism and to evaluate its effects on mercury levels and neurological signs in three Munduruku indigenous villages in the Brazilian Amazon. One-hundred-and-seven indigenous (over 12 years old) were included and genotyped (rs1695) using a TaqMan validated assay. Then, associations were evaluated by binary logistic regression, using odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Mean age was 27.4 ± 13.9 years old, 52.3% were male, mean hair mercury concentration was 8.5 ± 4.3, exceeding the reference limit (≥6.0 µg/g), and were different among the three villages: 13.5 ± 4.6 µg/g in Sawré Aboy, 7.4 ± 2.3 µg/g in Poxo Muybu and 6.9 ± 3.5 µg/g in Sawré Muybu. The minor allele frequency of GSTP1 G was significantly different among the villages: 57% Sawré Muybu, 21% Poxo Muybu and 15% Sawré Aboy. Finally, after adjustment, GSTP1 GG and GA genotypes were associated with lower levels of Hg (OR = 0.13; CI95% = 0.03–0.49) and abnormal somatosensory signs (OR = 3.7; 95%IC = 1.5–9.3), respectively. In conclusion, monitoring this population is imperative to identify individuals at higher risk of developing signs of chronic mercury exposure based on the genetic profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. HTLV-1/2 in Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon: Seroprevalence, Molecular Characterization and Sociobehavioral Factors Related to Risk of Infection.
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Abreu, Isabella Nogueira, Lima, Carlos Neandro Cordeiro, Sacuena, Eliene Rodrigues Putira, Lopes, Felipe Teixeira, da Silva Torres, Maria Karoliny, Santos, Bernardo Cintra dos, de Oliveira Freitas, Vanessa, de Figueiredo, Leonardo Gabriel Campelo Pinto, Pereira, Keise Adrielle Santos, de Lima, Aline Cecy Rocha, Brito, Wandrey Roberto dos Santos, Botelho, Bruno José Sarmento, Gonçalves, Janete Silvana Souza, Lima, Sandra Souza, Vallinoto, Izaura Maria Vieira Cayres, Guerreiro, João Farias, Ishak, Ricardo, and Vallinoto, Antonio Carlos Rosário
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INDIGENOUS peoples of South America ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas ,ENDEMIC diseases ,SEROPREVALENCE - Abstract
HTLV-1/2 infection is endemic in Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Its origin is attributed to the migratory flow of Amerindian ancestral peoples. The present study aimed to investigate the seroprevalence of HTLV-1/2 infection in Indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon. A total of 3350 Indigenous people belonging to 15 communities were investigated. The investigation was performed using serological (ELISA), molecular (qPCR) and confirmatory (Western blot and/or Inno-Lia) tests to detect and differentiate the infection. The seroprevalence was 8.3% for HTLV-1/2 infection, with 0.1% of individuals seropositive for HTLV-1 and 8.1% for HTLV-2. The prevalence of infection was statistically higher in women (10.1%) than in men (6.5%) (p = 0.0002). This female predominance was observed in all age groups; in females the prevalence was significant from 41 years old (p < 0.0001) and in males from 51 years old (p < 0.0001). Here, we present a prevalence of HTLV-1/2 among Indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon. The endemic infection in these groups must reflect the different epidemiological profiles observed in these peoples, such as sexual transmission through rejection of condom use, breastfeeding, especially in cases of cross-breastfeeding, and the high rate of pregnancy in the villages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Annual Cash Income from Community Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon: Challenges for the Future.
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Piketty, Marie-Gabrielle, Drigo, Isabel, Sablayrolles, Philippe, de Aquino, Evandro Araujo, Pena, Driss, and Sist, Plinio
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INCOME ,COMMUNITY forestry ,COMMUNITY forests ,FOREST management ,SUSTAINABLE development ,FINANCE - Abstract
Community forest management (CFM) is considered an alternative way to protect forests while providing income for smallholders. Since the mid-1990s, the number of CFM projects has rapidly increased in the Brazilian Amazon, although most of them still face several difficulties. In this paper, we discuss the obstacles to the financial viability of CFM in this region and propose some ways to overcome them. Based on evidence from five case studies, we assess the extent to which sustainable forest management for commercial timber production contributes to smallholder income. We show that harvesting timber only provides a limited cash income to smallholders, even though forest covers 80% of their landholding. Market access to timber is very uncertain and smallholder communities often fail to make a profit from their timber. Minimum remunerative public prices and support for timber marketing are thus needed. Simpler and more flexible procedures are required to reduce the high transaction costs of obtaining a permit and increase smallholder involvement in legal forest management for commercial purposes. Finally, a better assessment of timber potential in smallholder forest reserves through systematic inventories would be useful to avoid arousing false expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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39. Deforestation (lack of) control in the Brazilian Amazon: from strengthening to dismantling governmental authority (1999-2020).
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Ferraz da Fonseca, Igor, Pereira Lindoso, Diego, and Bursztyn, Marcel
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FOREST policy ,FOREST density ,DEFORESTATION ,LAND use ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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40. Malaria and other febrile diseases among travellers: the experience of a reference centre located outside the Brazilian Amazon Region
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Dotrário, Andréa Beltrami, Menon, Lucas José Bazzo, Bollela, Valdes Roberto, Martinez, Roberto, de Almeida e Araújo, Daniel Cardoso, da Fonseca, Benedito Antônio Lopes, and Santana, Rodrigo de C.
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41. Demographic dynamic of indigenous populations in urban areas: a study case of the city of Altamira, Pará, Brazil
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Ricardo Dagnino, Alessandra Traldi Simoni, and UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Dossiê ,Population ,Ethnic group ,Ciudades ,Indigenous populations ,Indigenous ,Amazonía brasileña ,03 medical and health sciences ,Politics ,State (polity) ,Environmental protection ,Political movement ,Socioeconomics ,education ,Demography ,media_common ,População indígena ,Amazon River Region ,education.field_of_study ,030505 public health ,City ,Brazilian Amazon ,Indigenous population ,Cidade ,Amazônia ,Geography ,lcsh:HB848-3697 ,Altamira ,lcsh:Demography. Population. Vital events ,0305 other medical science ,Poblaciones indígenas - Abstract
Este artigo aborda as populações indígenas no município de Altamira, Estado do Pará, com ênfase em sua presença nas áreas urbanas e, principalmente, na sede municipal. O objetivo é compreender os movimentos e dinâmicas destas populações com relação aos dados produzidos sobre/por elas. Para tanto, utilizaram-se informações de campo, dos Censos Demográficos de 2000 e 2010, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, e aquelas provenientes de levantamentos visando a identificação de indígenas na cidade para atender à construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte. Procurou-se captar os processos pelos quais a população indígena passou e passa, com destaque para as ameaças provocadas pela usina e por forças políticas que têm colocado esta população em risco. Os resultados apontam para uma presença crescente no meio urbano, principalmente de populações das etnias Juruna, Kuruaya e Xipaya que pareciam ter diminuído significativamente, mas passaram por um processo de recuperação demográfica na cidade associado a um movimento político de articulação em torno de sua identidade étnica a partir dos anos 1990. Abstract This paper focus on indigenous people in the municipality of Altamira, in the State of Pará, Brazil, emphasizing the presence of indigenous people in urban areas and especially in the city of Altamira. The purpose here is to understand the dynamics and movements of these populations in regard to the data produced about them and the data produced by them. For that, data from fieldwork are used, as well as the demographic censuses data of 2000 and 2010, produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and also information from surveys produced because of the construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte to identify the indigenous people living in the city. The paper intends to capture the processes by which the indigenous population has passed and still passes, highlighting the threats posed by the Belo Monte dam construction and by political forces that have put this population at risk. The results point to a growing presence populations in urban areas, mainly from the Juruna, Kuruaya and Xipaya ethnicities who once seemed to have decreased significantly, but underwent to a demographic recovery process in the city, associated with a political movement pivot around their ethnic identity since the 1990's. Resumen Este artículo enfoca los pueblos indígenas en el municipio de Altamira, estado de Pará, Brasil, destacando la presencia de estos en las zonas urbanas y, especialmente, en la ciudad de Altamira. El objetivo es comprender las dinámicas y movimientos de estas poblaciones en relación a los datos producidos por y sobre ellas. Con este fin, se utilizo datos de campo, los de los censos demográficos de 2000 y 2010, producidos por el Instituto Brasileño de Geografía y Estadística, y informaciones de las encuestas para la identificación de los pueblos indígenas en la ciudad para cumplir con la construcción de la central hidroeléctrica de Belo Monte. Se busco captar los procesos por los cuales la población indígena ha pasado y todavía pasa, destacando las amenazas planteadas por la hidroeléctrica y por las fuerzas políticas que han llevado a esta población en riesgo. Los resultados apuntan a una creciente presencia de esas poblaciones en las áreas urbanas, principalmente de las etnias Juruna, Kuruaya y Xipaya que parecían haber disminuido sobremanera, pero se sometieron a un proceso de recuperación demográfica en la ciudad, asociado con un movimiento político en torno a su identidad étnica a partir de los años 1990.
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42. Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge
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Mélanie Congretel and Florence Pinton
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biology of conservation ,Brazilian Amazon ,ethnodevelopment project ,guarana ,indigenous local knowledge ,ontologies of plants ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Ecology ,QH540-549.5 - Abstract
Abstract More than 30 years after the 1988 Declaration of Belém, which we can consider an important outcome of socio‐environmental movements, this reflexive paper proposes new ways of approaching indigenous local knowledge (ILK) related to the living environment and understanding its relevance in times of global socio‐environmental crisis. Drawing upon the example of an ethnodevelopment project based on guarana production by indigenous Sateré‐Mawé people in the Brazilian Amazon, two important issues are addressed. First, we reflect on how a traditional management system can contribute to both biological and cultural conservation, even when that system is inserted in new global markets and spoken about through a scientific perspective. Second, we address the challenge of incorporating ILK into conservation research by formulating a set of methodological proposals. We show that ILK is a dynamic, adaptive and political product of local–global interactions. This leads us to defend an analysis of ILK that would focus on its processes of creation rather than on the body of knowledge that results from them, thus helping to account for ILK's vitality and the various forms of its legitimation. At the crossroads of ethnobiology, science and technology studies, and social anthropology, these research methods seek to go beyond the inventory, categorization and structural analysis of thoughts and practices to instead privilege an analysis of the interactions between local populations and resources; at the same time, they operate across different scales and integrate actors from the beginning to the end of (sometimes long) value chains. Such an approach aims to make visible the modes of knowledge translation and hybridization that indigenous people might implement to maintain control over their collective identities and their relationship with a changing environment. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
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43. Gold miners augment malaria transmission in indigenous territories of Roraima state, Brazil
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de Aguiar Barros, Jacqueline, Granja, Fabiana, Pequeno, Pedro, Marchesini, Paola, and Ferreira da Cruz, Maria de Fátima
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44. Sustainability assessment in the Brazilian Amazon: the municipalities of the state of Amapá
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Ferreira, José Francisco de Carvalho, Corrêa, Jacklinne Matta, and de Alcantara Junior, José Ernaldo
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45. Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Cases Among Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: A New Expression of Old Inequalities.
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Fellows, Martha, Paye, Valéria, Alencar, Ane, Nicácio, Mário, Castro, Isabel, Coelho, Maria Emília, Silva, Camila V. J., Bandeira, Matheus, Lourival, Reinaldo, and Basta, Paulo Cesar
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COVID-19 ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,HEALTH facilities ,POISSON regression ,ETHNIC groups - Abstract
Objective: To estimate the incidence, mortality and lethality rates of COVID-19 among Indigenous Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon. Additionally, to analyze how external threats can contribute to spread the disease in Indigenous Lands (IL). Methods: The Brazilian Amazon is home to nearly half a million Indigenous persons, representing more than 170 ethnic groups. As a pioneer in heading Indigenous community-based surveillance (I-CBS) in Brazil, the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) started to monitor Indigenous COVID-19 cases in March of 2020. Brazil's Ministry of Health (MOH) was the main source of data regarding non-Indigenous cases and deaths; to contrast the government's tally, we used the information collected by I-CBS covering 25 Special Indigenous Sanitary Districts (DSEI) in the Brazilian Amazon. The incidence and mortality rates of COVID-19 were calculated using the total number of new cases and deaths accumulated between the 9th and 40th epidemiological weeks. We studied (a) the availability of health care facilities to attend to Indigenous Peoples; (b) illegal mines, land grabbing, and deforestation to perform a geospatial analysis to assess how external threats affect Indigenous incidence and mortality rates. We used the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) with Poisson regression to show the results. Results: MOH registered 22,127 cases and 330 deaths, while COIAB's survey recorded 25,356 confirmed cases and 670 deaths, indicating an under-reporting of 14 and 103%, respectively. Likewise, the incidence and mortality rates were 136 and 110% higher among Indigenous when compared with the national average. In terms of mortality, the most critical DSEIs were Alto Rio Solimões, Cuiabá, Xavante, Vilhena and Kaiapó do Pará. The GLM model reveals a direct correlation between deforestation, land grabbing and mining, and the incidence of cases among the Indigenous. Conclusion: Through this investigation it was possible to verify that not only the incidence and mortality rates due to COVID-19 among Indigenous Peoples are higher than those observed in the general population, but also that the data presented by the federal government are underreported. Additionally, it was evident that the presence of illegal economic activities increased the risk of spreading COVID-19 in ILs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Impact of Plasmodium vivax malaria and antimalarial treatment on cytochrome P450 activity in Brazilian patients.
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Almeida, Anne Cristine, Elias, Anna Beatriz Ribeiro, Marques, Maria Paula, Melo, Gisely Cardoso, Costa, Allyson Guimarães, Figueiredo, Erick Frota Gomes, Brasil, Larissa Wanderley, Rodrigues‐Soares, Fernanda, Monteiro, Wuelton Marcelo, Lacerda, Marcus Vinicius Guimarães, Lanchote, Vera Lucia, and Suarez‐Kurtz, Guilherme
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OMEPRAZOLE ,METOPROLOL ,PLASMODIUM vivax ,CYTOCHROME P-450 ,ACUTE diseases ,PHENOTYPES ,MALARIA ,CHLOROQUINE - Abstract
Aims: To investigate the impact of Plasmodium vivax malaria and chloroquine‐primaquine chemotherapy on CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 activity in patients from the Brazilian Amazon. Methods: Adult patients (n = 30) were given subtherapeutic doses of CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 phenotypic probes metoprolol (10 mg) and omeprazole (2 mg) in three different stages of vivax malaria illness: acute disease (study phase 1), post chemotherapy (phase 2) and convalescence (stage 3). Plasma concentrations of probes and CYP‐hydroxylated metabolites (α‐OH metoprolol and 5‐OH omeprazole) were measured using LC/MS/MS. Two pharmacokinetic metrics were used to estimate CYP activity: (a) ratio of plasma concentrations of probe/metabolite at 240 minutes after administration of the probes and (b) ratio of areas under the time‐concentration curves for probe/metabolite (AUC0‐12h). For statistical analysis, the pharmacokinetic metrics were normalized to the respective values in phase 3. Taqman assays were used for CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotyping. Cytokines levels were measured using cytometric bead array. Results: Both pharmacokinetic metrics for metoprolol and omeprazole, and plasma concentrations of cytokines IL‐6, IL‐8 and IL‐10 varied significantly across the three study phases (ANOVA P < 0.0001). Post hoc tests showed greater metoprolol:α‐OH metoprolol ratios in phases 1 and 2 compared to phase 3, larger omeprazole:5‐OH omeprazole ratios in phase 1 than in phases 2 and 3, and higher circulating IL‐6, IL‐8 and IL‐10 in phase 1 than in phases 2 and 3. Conclusion: P. vivax malaria and treatment altered CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 metabolic phenotypes. CYP2C19 inhibition is attributed to a higher level of circulating proinflammatory cytokines, while suppression of CYP2D6 is ascribed mainly to chloroquine exposure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Paiter People and the use of technologies for the management of the Indigenous Reserve Sete de Setembro, RO
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Gasodá Suruí, Adnilson de Almeida Silva, and Martin Ignácio Torres Rodriguez
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Brazilian Amazon ,Cultural Strengthening ,Territory ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
Several indigenous peoples have sought ways where the implementation of ethno-development is often mirrored in short-term, merely economic, regional processes in which ethnotechnology and the use of natural resources are disconnected from concerns about environmental impacts generated. Paiter Suruí people is one of those many indigenous peoples in Brazil who has bet on the technological force for the maintenance of their cultural and territorial preservation. This work aims to show the ordinary reality lived by the Paiter Surui by struggling in search of conquests and guarantees to their traditional territories and culture. For this, the knowledge and qualification of using technological tools by the Surui Paiter were and still are important transcultural-territorial means and strategies for the cultural-identity strengthening and for confrontation to the postcolonial discourses. This paper was based on the methodological approach of participant research, once the first author is indigenous of this ethnic group, while the second author has long experience with the native peoples of Rondônia and develops several activities in Indigenous Reserve Sete de Setembro, the territory of the Paiter Suruí.
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48. Climate mitigation or knowledge deprivation? Learning from indigenous socio-environmental funds
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Luiza Muccillo Bica de Barcellos and Maria Fernanda Gebara
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brazilian amazon ,climate mitigation ,indigenous rights ,socio-environmental funds ,traditional knowledge ,Industries. Land use. Labor ,HD28-9999 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Purpose: To reflect on effects of exposing indigenous peoples to neoliberal approaches to mitigate climate change by examining Brazil’s first indigenous peoples’ socio-environmental funds, discussing conflicts, collaborations and how funds help or hinder symbiosis of REDD+ with indigenous practices. Methodology/Approach: Primary data collected between 2011-15; Observation; Open-ended and Semi-structured Interviews; Focus Groups; Coding; Literature Review. Findings: The analysis undertaken indicates that the realities of neoliberal and capitalist practices impose requirements and demands on indigenous peoples, restricting their ability to properly implement the objectives of the funds and affecting their traditional practices and forms of social organization. Research Limitation/implication: Last field data collected in 2015, but the lessons we point out are valuable. Originality/Value of paper: The conflicts and collaborations discussed add to the debate on neoliberalization of nature and give more evidence to suggest that re-thinking climate mitigation strategies is timely and urgent, and indigenous knowledge have a significant role in this process.
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49. Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital
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Luis Fernando De Matheus and Andrei Cornetta
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Capitalist accumulation ,the production of nature ,geographic ideologies ,scarcity ,rarity ,Brazilian Amazon ,southern Chile ,Social Sciences ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
This paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil’s eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. We argue that in the contemporary crisis of capitalism (which has been misunderstood by many observers as an environmental crisis), an array of new commodities have emerged. These processes of commodification have been marked by the commodification of “environmental services” and the creation of more private nature reserves creating value in new ways marked by scarcity and unique natural attractions.
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50. The ghosts of forests past and future: deforestation and botanical sampling in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Stropp, J., Umbelino, B., Correia, R. A., Campos‐Silva, J. V., Ladle, R. J., and Malhado, A. C. M.
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DEFORESTATION ,GRID cells - Abstract
The remarkable biodiversity of the Brazilian Amazon is poorly documented and threatened by deforestation. When undocumented areas become deforested, in addition to losing the fauna and flora, we lose the opportunity to know which unique species had occupied a habitat. Here we quantify such knowledge loss by calculating how much of the Brazilian Amazon has been deforested and will likely be deforested until 2050 without having its tree flora sufficiently documented. To this end, we analysed 399 147 digital specimens of nearly 6000 tree species in relation to official deforestation statistics and future deforestation scenarios. We find that by 2017, 30% of all the localities where tree specimens had been collected were mostly deforested. Some 300 000 km2 (12%; 485 25 × 25 km grid cells) of the Brazilian Amazon had been deforested by 2017, without having a single tree specimen recorded. An additional 250 000–900 000 km2 of severely under‐collected rainforest will likely become deforested by 2050. If future tree sampling is to cover this area, sampling effort has to increase two‐ to six‐fold. Nearly 255 000 km2 or 7% of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon is easily accessible but does yet but remain under‐collected. Our study highlights how progressing deforestation increases the risk of losing undocumented species of a hyper‐diverse tree flora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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