U.S.-Brazil Program: Deforestation in the Amazon: Social Science Debates and the Struggle for Synthesis

0105183Walker 该美洲计划奖将支持密歇根州立大学的 Robert T. Walker 博士与圣保罗大学的 Marcellus Caldas 和 Joaquin Bento de Souza Ferreira 合作。 该提案的目的是组织一次社会科学研讨会，以讨论我们对热带森林砍伐驱动过程的集体理解，并确定潜在的政策应对措施。将讨论三个主题：(1) 研究方法，(2) 森林砍伐的驱动因素，(3) 和政策应对措施。会议的目标是汇集在巴西亚马逊地区不同地理层面工作的不同学科的研究人员，以促进将他们的工作纳入有关热带森林砍伐社会影响的更普遍的理论中。 该研讨会的结构将促进关键研究问题的国际合作，并将在研究亚马逊的社会科学研究界建立代际连续性。

0105183WalkerThis Americas Program award will support Dr. Robert T. Walker of Michigan State University in collaboration with Marcellus Caldas and Joaquin Bento de Souza Ferreira, both of the University of Sao Paulo. The purpose of this proposal is to organize a social science workshop to address our collective understanding of the processes driving tropical deforestation, and to identify potential policy responses. Three subjects will be addressed: (1) research methodology, (2) the drivers of deforestation, (3) and policy responses.The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers of various disciplines, working at different geographical levels in the Brazilian Amazon, to facilitate the integration of their work into more universal theories about the social dimensions of tropical deforestation. The workshop by its very structure will facilitate international collaboration on key research questions and will establish generational continuity in the social science research community studying the Amazon.