@InProceedings{SolerKokCāmaVeld:2012:UnHuIn,
               author = "Soler, L. S. and Kok, K. and C{\^a}mara, G. and Veldkamp, A.",
          affiliation = "Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), 
                         University of Twente, The Netherlands and Wageningen University, 
                         The Netherlands and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and Wageningen University, The Netherlands",
                title = "Land use and land cover dynamics in the brazilian Amazon: 
                         understanding human-environmental interactions",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2012",
         organization = "Planet Under Pressure Conference, (PUP).",
             keywords = "land use, land cover, brazilian Amazon, human-environmental 
                         interactions.",
             abstract = "In the last decades, 18% of forest cover was cleared by human 
                         colonization in the Brazilian Amazon, where the spatial 
                         variability of deforestation depends not only on drivers but also 
                         on the spatial scale. Spatial variability can be explained by a 
                         combination of accessibility measures, public policies, 
                         socioeconomic and biophysical aspects that can lead the land use 
                         systems to distinct pathways, depending on the existing 
                         human-environmental interactions. The understanding of these 
                         interactions is a challenge to interdisciplinary research between 
                         social and natural sciences, while scientific results can help 
                         developing land use policies at different levels. In this context, 
                         the main objective of this study is to identify and analyze the 
                         role of human-environmental interactions at local and regional 
                         scales regarding the land use and land cover dynamics in the 
                         Brazilian Amazon. The adopted method consists of an innovative 
                         approach that integrates Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs), built based 
                         on spatial data and expert knowledge (Soler et al, 2010), to a 
                         framework that analyzes sustainability of social-ecological 
                         systems (Ostrom, 2009). FCMs are built using spatial databases at 
                         three different spatial resolutions and extents in areas of 
                         heterogeneous biophysical and socioeconomic aspects, colonization 
                         history and land tenure regimes. A number of empirical methods are 
                         employed using detailed deforestation maps, surveying data, 
                         agricultural census and household level data to support the 
                         background knowledge to build the FCMs. The results indicate 
                         feedback mechanisms between deforestation and land prices or dry 
                         season severity act differently within different scales, being 
                         stronger at broader scales. However, feedbacks among 
                         deforestation, accessibility and credits seem to have a similar 
                         influence at different scales, but only poor conclusions can be 
                         drawn on how they act over scales. Finally, FCMs linked to spatial 
                         data can elucidate interactions such as those within institutional 
                         arrangements, needed to identify successful or failuring 
                         social-ecological systems.",
  conference-location = "London",
      conference-year = "26-29 Mar. 2012",
        urlaccessdate = "19 abr. 2024"
}