title: Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Juruá.
abstract: Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea's popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, there has been little analysis of the combined conservation and development performance of extractive reserve programs. We present a detailed analysis of deforestation and demographic and socioeconomic changes in Alto Juruá, the first extractive reserve created in Brazil in 1990. Forest cover has remained fairly stable. Population has declined slightly, with some internal displacements. The cash economy base has shifted from the original rubber production to a diversified portfolio of agriculture and livestock, and there has been a dramatic rise in nonagrarian income. We conclude that the Reserve represents a very dynamic setting with positive conservation and development outcomes during its first decade.
authors.affiliation: Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. manuel.ruiz@uam.es
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Pérez
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Sonya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dewi
authors.forename: Eliza Mara Lozano
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Mariana Ciavatta
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pantoja
authors.forename: Atie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puntodewo
authors.forename: Augusto Arruda
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: de Postigo
authors.forename: Alexandre Goulart
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: de Andrade
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001938:Brazil; D003132:Commerce; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics*; D003710:Demography; D016468:Forestry; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D012408:Rubber; D012923:Social Class; D014329:Tropical Climate
chemical_list: D012408:Rubber