Abstract
Development, resource, and settlement frontiers inspired by national policies and global demand continue to expand into the international boundary lands of Amazonia. National policies promote development and conservation projects on lands already inhabited and managed. Regional governments are increasingly frustrated by the inadequate and outdated geographic information available to solve overlapping claims and improve planning in sensitive border regions. The resulting combination of inappropriate policies, contested resources, and poor geographic information in the borderlands create impacts not only for national, regional, and local landscapes and livelihoods but also foreign relations due to transboundary effects. This article uses a transboundary political ecology framework to contextualize the products, process, and promise of a Ucayali, Peru, Acre, Brazil transboundary mapping workshop funded by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH).
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2012, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia. This article first appeared in Revista Geográfica: 152 (2012), 105-115.
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Recommended Citation
Salisbury, David S., A. William Flores De Melo, and Pedro Tipula Tipula. "Transboundary Political Ecology in the Peru-Brazil Borderlands: Mapping Workshops, Geographic Information, and Socio-Environmental Impacts." Revista Geográfica 152 (2012): 105-15.
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