Social and economic constraints on the development of market-oriented extractive reserves in Amazon rain forests
This paper challenges recent claims that "extractive reserves" offer a sustainable and economically competitive mode of tropical forest use. In contrast to the popular image of rubber tappers and other "extractive" populations living in prosperous harmony with their rain forest environment, ample evidence exists that most extractor households in Amazonia are poor, exploited by various forms of debt-peonage, and are fully capable of destroying commercial forest resources when pressed by circumstances threatening their survival. This paper examines several social and economic factors that limit the development and expansion of the "extractive reserves model" in Amazonia and urges policy markers to face the real challenge ahead, that of developing sustainable modes of production for the Amazon's dominant population group (farmers and ranchers), who are directly responsible for most of the tropical forest clearing in the region.
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Bronx, N.Y. (EUA)
1992
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| Subjects: | RESERVAS EXTRACTIVISTAS, ASPECTOS SOCIOECONOMICOS, PRODUCTOS FORESTALES NO MADERABLES, AMAZONIA, BRASIL, |
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