Social Movements and Large-Scale Tropical Forest Protection on the Amazon Frontier: Conservation From Chaos

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Schwartzman ◽  
Ane Alencar ◽  
Hilary Zarin ◽  
Ana Paula Santos Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Protection

scholarly journals Spatial Agglomeration of China’s Forest Products Manufacturing Industry: Measurement, Characteristics and Determinants

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1006
Author(s):  
Zhenhuan Chen ◽  
Hongge Zhu ◽  
Wencheng Zhao ◽  
Menghan Zhao ◽  
Yutong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Spatial Agglomeration ◽  
Continuous Space

China’s forest products manufacturing industry is experiencing the dual pressure of forest protection policies and wood scarcity and, therefore, it is of great significance to reveal the spatial agglomeration characteristics and evolution drivers of this industry to enhance its sustainable development. Based on the perspective of large-scale agglomeration in a continuous space, in this study, we used the spatial Gini coefficient and standard deviation ellipse method to investigate the spatial agglomeration degree and location distribution characteristics of China’s forest products manufacturing industry, and we used exploratory spatial data analysis to investigate its spatial agglomeration pattern. The results show that: (1) From 1988 to 2018, the degree of spatial agglomeration of China’s forest products manufacturing industry was relatively low, and the industry was characterized by a very pronounced imbalance in its spatial distribution. (2) The industry has a very clear core–periphery structure, the spatial distribution exhibits a “northeast-southwest” pattern, and the barycenter of the industrial distribution has tended to move south. (3) The industry mainly has a high–high and low–low spatial agglomeration pattern. The provinces with high–high agglomeration are few and concentrated in the southeast coastal area. (4) The spatial agglomeration and evolution characteristics of China’s forest products manufacturing industry may be simultaneously affected by forest protection policies, sources of raw materials, international trade and the degree of marketization. In the future, China’s forest products manufacturing industry should further increase the level of spatial agglomeration to fully realize the economies of scale.

scholarly journals Primates Can Be a Rallying Symbol to Promote Tropical Forest Restoration

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 669-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin A. Chapman ◽  
Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques ◽  
Amy E. Dunham ◽  
Pengfei Fan ◽  
Peter J. Fashing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Restoration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Restoration Ecology ◽  
Habitat Restoration ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Flagship Species ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
Tropical Country

With 60% of all primate species now threatened with extinction and many species only persisting in small populations in forest fragments, conservation action is urgently needed. But what type of action? Here we argue that restoration of primate habitat will be an essential component of strategies aimed at conserving primates and preventing the extinctions that may occur before the end of the century and propose that primates can act as flagship species for restoration efforts. To do this we gathered a team of academics from around the world with experience in restoration so that we could provide examples of why primate restoration ecology is needed, outline how primates can act as flagship species for restoration efforts of tropical forest, review what little is known about how primate populations respond to restoration efforts, and make specific recommendations of the next steps needed to make restoration of primate populations successful. We set four priorities: (1) academics must effectively communicate both the value of primates and the need for restoration; (2) more research is needed on how primates contribute to forest restoration; (3) more effort must be put into Masters and PhD level training for tropical country nationals; and finally (4) more emphasis is needed to monitor the responses of regenerating forest and primate populations where restoration efforts are initiated. We are optimistic that populations of many threatened species can recover, and extinctions can be prevented, but only if concerted large-scale efforts are made soon and if these efforts include primate habitat restoration.

Protest, Social Movements, and Spaces for Politically Oriented Consumerist Actions—Nationally, Transnationally, and Locally

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Francesca Forno
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Predatory Lending ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Consumer Organizations ◽  
Ethical Criteria ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and political consumerism. Besides traditional consumer organizations that seek to protect customers from corporate abuse (such as unsafe products, predatory lending, or false advertising), political consumer practices have become increasingly employed to achieve diverse political and social goals. Calls to citizens to take action in their role as consumers have been made by social movement organizations of various types, either to build up transnational awareness so as to step up pressure on corporations or to facilitate the purchase of goods/services that meet specific ethical criteria. Along with large-scale boycotting and global fair trade initiatives, market-based actions have entered the repertoire of a number of local grassroots organizations seeking bottom-up solutions for sustainable development, within which the act of shopping moves beyond a form of individuals taking responsibility to become a tool for constructing collective, citizenship-driven alternative styles of provisioning.

IX. Report on the eruptions of the soufrière, St. Vincent, 1902, and on a visit to Montagne Pelèe, in Martinique. -Part I.

1903 ◽  
Vol 200 (321-330) ◽  
pp. 353-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tempest Anderson ◽  
John Smith Flett
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Main Axis ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Geological Work ◽  
Steep Slopes

The islands of the Caribbean chain have been occupied by European colonists for several hundred years, yet they cannot even at the present day be said to be thoroughly known or sufficiently explored. Though small, they are for the most part moun­tainous, and present usually a ridge or backbone of high land forming the main axis of each island, with sharp spurs on each side running down to the sea. Cul­tivation is practically confined to the lower grounds, where alone there are goodroads, and the interior is covered with dense tropical forest, the aspect of which varies greatly with the altitude, and through which there are only rough bush paths. The valleys are usually very deep and narrow, and the steep slopes are covered with plantations of arrowroot, limes, cocoa, coffee, banana or plantain, while most of the level alluvial ground in the valley bottoms is given up to the growth of sugar cane. In all the British islands, at any rate, the principal peaks and ridges have been ascended, and the main features of the country are delineated on the Admiralty charts, which are the best, and in fact the only available maps. As regards the coast-lines and the lower grounds generally, they are very accurate; but in theinterior only the more important points, the principal mountain summits and the like, have had their position sufficiently determined. The rest of the country has apparently been sketched in more or less carefully—but many of the details as, for example, the courses of the smaller streams, and the number of their branches, cannot be relied on. The want of a good map on a fairly large scale is a great drawback in geological work, and prevents the structure of the country being laid down with anyapproach to minuteness.

The Sustainability of Ecological Compensation in Inner Mongolia-Regional Management Based on Regional Characteristics

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 1574-1577
Author(s):  
Yan Xia Yang ◽  
I Shin Chang ◽  
Hui Min Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Ecological Engineering ◽  
Ecological Compensation ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Regional Management ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Engineering Projects

Under the situation of the ecological environment damage, the ecological compensation is becoming one of the focal points of the society in China. In responding to the decision of the Central Government positively, all provinces and municipalities have carried out a variety of plots of ecological compensation, in addition to large-scale ecological engineering projects implemented by the Central Government, including Three-North projects, Natural forest protection, Beijing-Tianjin sandstorm sources governance, and Returning farmland to forest/grassland which came into effective since the late 1990s, gradually. Through the analysis on those large-scale ecological engineering projects located in Inner Mongolia, this study summarized the progress and development of afforestation and the existing problems. In addition, through regional management scheme based on regional characteristics, the sustainability of ecological compensation in Inner Mongolia was assessed.

Smartphone as a mediating technology of organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 429-442
Author(s):  
Jennifer Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Small Device ◽  
Power Trust ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Site

This chapter considers the smartphone as organizational force. Its effects are to blur the boundaries between work and home; to involve different constituent actors and forms of power (bypassing traditional organizational gatekeepers); and to raise new forms of service and exclusion. The smartphone is a small device that impacts large-scale organizing. A site of interaction between the individual and organizing, it raises questions of power, trust, transparency, work–life balance, self-monitoring, surveillance, and self-expression. It is associated with the rise of new, less-regulated forms of work and social movements. Organizational scholars need to further unpack its implications for organizations and organizing.

scholarly journals Fluxo de calor no solo modelado a partir de dados de temperatura em dois níveis de profundidade em uma floresta tropical na Amazônia Ocidental

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Antônio Vinicius do Prado Rodrigues ◽  
Nelma Tavares Dias Soares ◽  
Renata Gonçalves Aguiar ◽  
Alberto Dresch Webler ◽  
Bruno Soares de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Soil Heat Flux ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Biological Reserve

The global climate is dependent of ecological balance of forests, especially tropical. The heat flux in the soil is an important factor in studies of energy balance representing the main form of energy exchange between soil and atmosphere. The aim of the present work was to estimate soil heat flux using soil temperature measurements at two depth levels in a tropical forest in the Western Amazon, in order to obtain coherent data for both the use of the values and for the filling of failures in database. Had been used data on temperature and soil heat flux collected in a micrometeorological tower belonging to the towers network of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Program in the Amazon, located in the Jaru Biological Reserve. The estimated data presented 94% agreement with the measured data, the two have similar behaviors that allow the use in filling of failures in a demonstrative way. However, there is a delay in the estimated values of the heat flux in the soil in relation to the measured one, which interferes in the result of the model, provoking more studies to improve it.

scholarly journals Fighting forest fires in the Kuibyshev Region in 1931-1940: a little-known aspect of the ecological history of the Middle Volga region

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-188
Author(s):  
Evgeny Vladimirovich Voeykov
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fire Fighting ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga

The paper deals with the spread of forest fires and measures to combat them in the course of implementing the policy of preserving the forests of the Volga region in the years of the pre-war five-year plans. The paper is written mainly on the basis of archival materials of the Russian State Archive of Economics, the Central State Archive of the Samara Region, and the State Archive of the Ulyanovsk Region, which were first introduced into historical circulation. In the 1930s, large-scale logging was carried out in the Kuibyshev Region in violation of the rules of forestry. One of the problems of forest exploitation was the growth of forest fires, which caused significant economic and environmental damage. The forest industry trust Sredles and the Srednevolzhsky Forestry Trust could not significantly change the situation with the fire protection of forests for the better. The most unfavorable years for the forests of the Middle Volga region and the Kuibyshev Region were 1933 and 1938. After the creation of the Srednevolzhsky (Kuibyshev) Forest Protection Department, the effectiveness of fire-fighting measures increased. Fire fighting was carried out by the most modern means at that time. As a result, the annual number of fires decreased. But it was not possible to completely solve the problem of fires in the forests of the Middle Volga during the third five-year plan.

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