Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia
In much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia, we find that rural-urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process. Like...
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| author | Christine Padoch Eduardo Brondizio Sandra Costa Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez Robin R. Sears Andrea Siqueira |
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| description | In much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia, we find that rural-urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process. Like recent rural-urban migrants worldwide, Amazonian migrants, although they may be counted as urban residents, are often not absent from rural areas but remain members of multi-sited households and continue to participate in rural-urban networks and in rural land-use decisions. Our research indicates that, despite their general poverty, these migrants have affected urban markets for both food and construction materials. We present two cases: that of açaí palm fruit in the estuary of the Amazon and of cheap construction timbers in the Peruvian Amazon. We find that many new Amazonian rural-urban migrants have maintained some important rural patterns of both consumption and knowledge. Through their consumer behavior, they are affecting the areal extent of forests; in the two floodplain regions discussed, tree cover is increasing. We also find changes in forest composition, reflecting the persistence of rural consumption patterns in cities resulting in increased demand for and production of açaí and cheap timber species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a463e23bcbfc48c4b7e181e45e86462f2022-12-21T21:30:36ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872008-12-01132210.5751/ES-02526-1302022526Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in AmazoniaChristine Padoch0Eduardo Brondizio1Sandra Costa2Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez3Robin R. Sears4Andrea Siqueira5The New York Botanical GardenDept. of Anthropology, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana UniversityLaboratory of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Vale do Paraiba - SPCenter for Environmental Research and Conservation and Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia UniversityCenter for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia UniversityCenter for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and ACT - Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana UniversityIn much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia, we find that rural-urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process. Like recent rural-urban migrants worldwide, Amazonian migrants, although they may be counted as urban residents, are often not absent from rural areas but remain members of multi-sited households and continue to participate in rural-urban networks and in rural land-use decisions. Our research indicates that, despite their general poverty, these migrants have affected urban markets for both food and construction materials. We present two cases: that of açaí palm fruit in the estuary of the Amazon and of cheap construction timbers in the Peruvian Amazon. We find that many new Amazonian rural-urban migrants have maintained some important rural patterns of both consumption and knowledge. Through their consumer behavior, they are affecting the areal extent of forests; in the two floodplain regions discussed, tree cover is increasing. We also find changes in forest composition, reflecting the persistence of rural consumption patterns in cities resulting in increased demand for and production of açaí and cheap timber species.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art2/afforestationAmazoniadeforestationrural–urban migrationurban–rural interactions |
| spellingShingle | Christine Padoch Eduardo Brondizio Sandra Costa Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez Robin R. Sears Andrea Siqueira Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia Ecology and Society afforestation Amazonia deforestation rural– urban migration urban– rural interactions |
| title | Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia |
| title_full | Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia |
| title_fullStr | Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia |
| title_short | Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia |
| title_sort | urban forest and rural cities multi sited households consumption patterns and forest resources in amazonia |
| topic | afforestation Amazonia deforestation rural– urban migration urban– rural interactions |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art2/ |
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