INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Water, Forests and People: Towards Integrative Research on
Dams, Natural Resources and Society in the Amazon
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies
Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program
Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative (ACLI)
UF Water Institute
Florida Climate Institute (FCI)
January 23 - 25, 2012
J. Wayne Reitz Union, Room 361-363
Gainesville, FL, US
Symposium Topics
Main Objectives:
• Sharing knowledge within and across disciplines on the multiple effects of Dams construction and operation,
• Formation of a community of practice and research team, and • Advance proposal development. Guests: Dr. Philip Fearnside (INPA), Dr. Elineide Marques (UFT), Dr. Carolina Doria
(UNIR).
Symposium’s topics:
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Dams and River Systems – including hydrology, geomorphology, fish and fisheries. Dams and Social Systems – including political ecology, indigenous peoples and struggles against dams in the Amazon, long‐term effects of Dams on social groups in Costa Rica, and socio‐economic benefits of electrification.
Dams and Climate Change – including land‐use and land‐cover change, with a focus on the Brazilian Amazon.
Amazon Dams Program: Planning Process – December 2011 – March 2012
4. Strengthening the
team and writing
research proposal for
NSF
4. Working on
integrative
research
proposal for
NSF
3. Building integrated
knowledge, working
with guests and writing
research proposal
1. Disciplinary
groups to start
integrating and
form
statements
What is the
socio-ecological
system that
emerges after
the
construction of
the dam?
3. Symposium
bigger working
group
1. Building disciplinary
statements – theory and
methods written and ready to
present to bigger group
2.
Interdisciplinary
group at UF –
common
understanding
2. Sharing disciplinary
understanding Presentations and
discussions with
bigger group (2 days/
2 hours each)
Mary Allegreti
Wal Brasil
Brent Millikan
Tom Ankersen
Katrina Schwartz
Government
Utilities/energy sector
Engineers
Workers
Social movements
Political/
legal
Social
Economics
Health
Tony Oliver-Smith
Marianne Schmink
Simone Athayde
Rosane Rosa
Berenice Simao
Adriano Castorino
Juliana Almeida
Wendy-Lin Bartels
Chris McCarty
Management &
administration
Simone
Elineide
Kathleen
Patricia
Scientific Committee
Outside consultants
Ecological/
Biophysical
Climatic
Elineide Marques
Solange da Silva
Carol Doria
Amintas Rossete
Stephanie Bohlman
Mike Binford
Joan Mossa
Kathleen McKee
Ted Melis
Bill Pine
Bob Buschbacher
Bette Loiselle
Philip Fearnside