U.S.-Brazil Dissertation Improvement: The Role of Land Tenure on the Occurrence of Accidental Fires in the Amazon Region: Case Studies from the Santarem Region

0121563Ostrom这个美洲项目奖将支持玛丽亚·安吉莉卡·托尼奥洛博士在印第安纳大学布鲁明顿分校埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆博士的指导下，与亚马逊研究所(IPAM)的丹尼尔·尼普斯塔德博士合作进行的论文研究。托尼奥洛女士计划探索不同的财产制度对巴西中北部帕拉州桑塔雷姆地区塔帕霍斯国家公园小农户社区意外火灾发生率的影响。这项比较研究的最终目的是对意外火灾、小耕作做法、森林碎片化和财产制度之间的关系进行严格的评估，从而有助于理解亚马逊地区的森林砍伐过程和制定保护政策。这一建议的结果将有助于提高当前对土地保有权、土地利用决策和意外火灾管理之间潜在相互作用的理解。它将允许在农场-社区一级创建火灾风险地图，可用来指示和最大限度地减少在防火方面需要特别关注的地区的风险。这项研究将应用基于地理信息系统(GIS)的两种不同方法来模拟农场社区层面发生意外火灾的可能性。它还将为国家森林砍伐拱门火灾预防和控制方案(PROARCO)和亚马逊地区大规模生物圈-大气实验(LBA)提供新的信息。

0121563Ostrom This Americas Program award will support thesis dissertation research by Dr. Maria Angelica Toniolo under the direction of Dr. Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University-Bloomington and in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Nepstad of the Intituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia (IPAM). Ms. Toniolo plans to explore the impact of different property regimes on the incidence of accidental fires in smallholder communities in Tapajos National Park in the Santarem region of Para state in north central Brazil. The ultimate objective of this comparative study is to produce a rigorous assessment of the relationship between accidental fires, small farming practices, forest fragmentation, and property regimes and, thereby, contribute to the understanding of deforestation processes and the formulation of conservation policy in the Amazon.Results of this proposal will be relevant for improving current understanding of the underlying interactions among land tenure, decision making regarding land use and management of accidental fires. It will allow for the creation of a fire-risk map at the farm-community level, which can be used to indicate and minimize risk in areas that need special attention in terms of fire prevention. The study will apply two different approaches based on Geographic Information System (GIS) to model the likelihood of accidental fires at the farm community level. It will also add new information to the National Program of Prevention and Control of Fires in the Deforestation Arch (PROARCO) and to the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA).