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Overview

Stephen G. Perz is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Building and Construction, and Ecology. Their work addresses topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Mining and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen G. Perz include:

  • Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon, 2021, published in Sustainability
  • Environmental crimes in extractive activities: Explanations for low enforcement effectiveness in the case of illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, 2020, published in The Extractive Industries and Society
  • Roads, deforestation and the mitigating effect of the Chico Mendes extractive reserve in the southwestern Amazon, 2020, published in Trees Forests and People
  • The effects of climate change variability on rural livelihoods in Madre de Dios, Peru, 2020, published in Regional Environmental Change
  • Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil, 2020, published in Ecology and Society

The venues where Perz frequently publishes include:

  • Sustainability
  • Trees Forests and People
  • Ecology and Society
  • Journal of Latin American Geography
  • The Extractive Industries and Society

Stephen G. Perz collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Foster Brown, Marliz Arteaga, Martha Cecilia Rosero-Peña, Sinomar Ferreira da Fonseca, and Andrea Baudoin Farah. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of studies primarily focusing on environmental and social issues related to resource management and conservation efforts.

Their research involves empirical and participatory methodologies aimed at integrating conservation and development goals with local community priorities. The focus on the Amazon region and areas such as Madre de Dios, Peru, highlight concerns over environmental crimes, deforestation, and climate change impacts on rural livelihoods.

Best Publications

  • An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience

    G. S. Cumming;G. Barnes;S. Perz;M. Schmink

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles

    Robert Walker;Stephen Perz;Marcellus Marcellus Caldas;Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva

  • Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Robert Walker;Steven Aldrich

  • Grand Theory and Context‐Specificity in the Study of Forest Dynamics: Forest Transition Theory and Other Directions

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Secondary forest expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and the refinement of forest transition theory

    Stephen G. Perz;David L. Skole

  • Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation

    Marcellus Caldas;Robert Walker;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon.

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon

    Stephen G Perz;Robert T Walker

  • Roads as drivers of change: Trajectories across the Tri-National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon

    Jane Southworth;Matt Marsik;Youliang Qiu;Stephen Perz

  • Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: Behavioral Models of Road Building in the Amazon Basin

    Eugenio Y. Arima;Robert T. Walker;Stephen G. Perz;Marcellus Caldas

  • Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

    Stephen Aldrich;Robert Walker;Cynthia Simmons;Marcellus Caldas

  • Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers and Frontier Stratification

    Stephen P. Aldrich;Robert T. Walker;Eugenio Y. Arima;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Protecting the Amazon with protected areas

    Robert Walker;Nathan J. Moore;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela

    Stephen G. Perz;Carlos Aramburú;Jason Bremner

  • Social determinants of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G Perz;David L Skole

  • Social Determinants and Land Use Correlates of Agricultural Technology Adoption in a Forest Frontier: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • The Fragmentation of Space in the Amazon Basin: Emergent Road Networks

    Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Robert T. Walker;Marcio Sales;Carlos Souza

  • Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz;Robert T. Walker;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Doing it for Themselves: Direct Action Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon

    Cynthia Simmons;Robert Walker;Stephen Perz;Stephen Aldrich

  • The Changing Social Contexts of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Are Agricultural Production and Forest Conservation Compatible? Agricultural Diversity, Agricultural Incomes and Primary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change: Highway paving and community-level deforestation in a tri-national frontier in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz;Youliang Qiu;Yibin Xia;Jane Southworth

  • CONTRIBUTIONS OF RACIAL-ETHNIC RECLASSIFICATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES TO INDIGENOUS POPULATION RESURGENCE : The Case of Brazil

    Stephen G. Perz;Jonathan Warren;David P. Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Southworth
Jane Southworth University of Florida
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena University of Florida
Carlos M. Souza
Carlos M. Souza Amazon Institute of People and the Environment
David L. Skole
David L. Skole Michigan State University
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Michael W. Binford
Michael W. Binford University of Florida
Liana O. Anderson
Liana O. Anderson National Institute for Space Research

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