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Unofficial Road Building in the Brazilian Amazon: Dilemmas and Models for Road GovernanceUnofficial roads form dense networks in landscapes, generating a litany of negative ecological outcomes, but unofficial roads in frontier areas are also instrumental in local livelihoods and community development. This trade-off poses dilemmas for the governance of unofficial roads. Unofficial road building in frontier areas of the Brazilian Amazon illustrates the challenges of 'road governance.' Both state-based and community based governance models exhibit important liabilities for governing unofficial roads. Whereas state-based governance has experienced difficulties in adapting to specific local contexts and interacting effectively with local interest groups, community-based governance has a mixed record owing to social inequalities and conflicts among local interest groups. A state-community hybrid model may offer more effective governance of unofficial road building by combining the oversight capacity of the state with locally grounded community management via participatory decision-making.
Document ID
20070022830
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Perz, Stephen G.
(Florida Univ. Gainesville, FL, United States)
Overdevest, Christine
(Florida Univ. Gainesville, FL, United States)
Caldas, Marcellus M.
(Kansas State Univ. Manhattan, KS, United States)
Walker, Robert T.
(Michigan State Univ. East Lansing, MI, United States)
Arima, Eugenio Y.
(Hobart and William Smith Coll. Geneva, NY, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 2007
Publication Information
Publication: Environmental Conservation
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC5-694
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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