Cultural Diversity in the Amazon Borderlands: Implications for Conservation and Development

David S. Salisbury and Ben G. Weinstein

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2014, vol. 29, issue 2, 217-241

Abstract: The Amazon basin, one of the world's core areas for biocultural diversity, includes or borders on nine South American states. The remote and biodiverse Amazon borderlands shared by these states contain over 12,000 kilometers of international boundaries and are increasingly threatened by transboundary infrastructure initiatives. This paper combines geographic information systems (GIS), field observations, and document research to investigate the relationship between cultural diversity and the Amazon borderlands: (1) Are the borderlands more culturally diverse than the Amazonian countries and Amazonian lowland rainforest biome? (2) If so, what characterizes this diversity? Results introduce the unique characteristics of the Amazon borderlands and underscore the argument for an alternative means of Amazon integration based on standing forest and biocultural diversity.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.916462

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