Papers by Marc Dourojeanni
Universidad del Pacífico eBooks, 1982
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Pronaturaleza, Lima, 2024
Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon are suffering the worst dry season and forest fires ever recorded. ... more Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon are suffering the worst dry season and forest fires ever recorded. Deforestation, in addition to climate cjhange, is one of its main causes. However, the governments insist in building new roads and other risky infrastructure in the remaining forests.
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Pronaturaleza, Lima, 2024
Forest fires are becoming common everywhere. Also in Peru. However, this is one among few countri... more Forest fires are becoming common everywhere. Also in Peru. However, this is one among few countries that does not have a forest firefighters corp.
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Pronaturaleza, 2024
Ignoring national legislation on protected areas the oil and gas public sector is promoting the e... more Ignoring national legislation on protected areas the oil and gas public sector is promoting the exploration of gas inside the Bahuaja Sonene National Park of Peru and, possibly, the opening of all protected areas in the country to oil and gas exploration and explotation.
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Turrialba, 1966
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Xilema, Dec 30, 2012
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Revista Kawsaypacha, Nov 3, 2022
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Conservation Biology, May 25, 1992
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Revista Kawsaypacha: Sociedad y Medio Ambiente
La producción de madera de bosques naturales en el Perú, salvo excepciones, no resulta de la apli... more La producción de madera de bosques naturales en el Perú, salvo excepciones, no resulta de la aplicación de un manejo forestal sostenible. Por tanto, la extracción de madera degrada al bosque y contribuye a reducir severamente sus servicios ecosistémicos. Una de las causas más evidentes de esta situación ha sido el traslado de la responsabilidad directa del manejo forestal al sector privado, mediante el régimen de las concesiones forestales. En el contexto económico y social prevaleciente los empresarios no consiguen realizar un manejo realmente sostenible que, asimismo, sea rentable (Dourojeanni, 2019, 2021). Por eso, en el marco de una nueva política para los bosques que prioriza el mantenimiento de los servicios ambientales (Dourojeanni et al., 2021; CNF, 2022), se propone transferir gradualmente esa responsabilidad al Estado y a las comunidades locales, sin menoscabo del rol privado en las fases de extracción, transformación y comercialización. El manejo forestal sería realizado ...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú eBooks, 2022
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Centro de Estudios Teológicos de la Amazonia, Iquitos, Peru, 1990
A book describing 20 years of experiences (1960s to 1980s) on the consequences of development on ... more A book describing 20 years of experiences (1960s to 1980s) on the consequences of development on environment in the Peruvian Amazon. It contains a diagnostic of the situation and a prognosis as well as a description of alternative to avoid the worst-case scenario. Most of the negative predictions are today´s reality.
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Big Bang faustiniano, 2013
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El desarrollo de la amazonia peruana no puede seguir adelante estando condicionado a las necesida... more El desarrollo de la amazonia peruana no puede seguir adelante estando condicionado a las necesidades de las otras regiones del pais. La Selva tiene inclinable derecho a alcanzar la expresion propia y genuina que su naturaleza compleja exige. El Gobierno Revolucionario consciente de la perentoria necesidad de encontrar soluciones que erradiquen el simplismo con que el desarrollo de la Selva ha sido abordado hasta el presente, ha definido una nueva estrategia. Se trata de respetar la aptitud natural de los suelos, dedicandolos al uso multiple de los recursos naturales renovables que existen sobre ellos. Se basa pues en la integracion de las actividades agricolas, pecuarias, forestales, pesqueras y de fauna silvestre. No solo mediante la aplicacion de nuevas tecnologias, mas aceptadas a la realidad ecologica y economica sino especialmente gracias al establecimiento d rotaciones agro-silvo-pecuarias. Estas actividades productivas o extractivas s vertebran, con la transformacion y con la...
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Island Press/Center for Resource Economics eBooks, 2012
The Amazon represents one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, much of which is poorly kn... more The Amazon represents one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, much of which is poorly known and highly threatened by conversion to agriculture. Because of the low capacity in the region to conduct science, conduct conservation planning, and enforce laws and regulations, it is also at high risk. Global climate change is exacerbating local land-use impacts that are affecting the region’s climate on a landscape scale. For the unique climate and functioning system of the Amazon to persist in the future, halting forest loss is imperative, or the thermal and water balances largely creating the unique landscape will collapse.
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Revista Kawsaypacha: Sociedad y Medio Ambiente
En esta nota se comenta y critica algunos aspectos de la reciente publicación de Cotrina A. et al... more En esta nota se comenta y critica algunos aspectos de la reciente publicación de Cotrina A. et al., (2021), «Peruvian Amazon disappearing: Transformation of protected areas during the last two decades (2001-2019) and potential future deforestation modelling using cloud computing and MaxEnt approach» (Journal for Nature Conservation, Elsevier), que hace un análisis año a año de la deforestación en áreas naturales protegidas de la Amazonía peruana y en sus zonas de amortiguamiento. Sus resultados son interesantes y, en general, confirman lo que se sabe sobre el tema. Pero los autores de dicha publicación, además de hacer afirmaciones inexactas, llegan a conclusiones alarmistas que no se condicen con sus propios resultados ni con la realidad de la gestión de áreas naturales protegidas en el Perú y en otros países tropicales.
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Revista de Investigaciones de la Universidad Le Cordon Bleu, 2022
Los menonitas han llegado a América del Sur en números considerables después de la Segunda Guerra... more Los menonitas han llegado a América del Sur en números considerables después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y se han instalado en varios países, pero principalmente en Paraguay y Bolivia donde desarrollaron grandes emprendimientos agropecuarios, ocupando bosques y otros ecosistemas naturales. Se estima que ya han deforestado más de cuatro millones de hectáreas de los biomas Chaco y Chiquitanía, principalmente para ganadería y soya. A partir del presente siglo comenzaron a invadir la Amazonia de Bolivia y más recientemente las de Perú y Colombia, habiendo ya deforestado posiblemente unas 20 mil hectáreas. Por sus antecedentes en México y América Central, así como en Paraguay y Bolivia, también preocupa el hecho de que sus tácticas para ocupar la tierra, tanto como muchas de sus prácticas, serían en gran medida ilegales y perjudiciales tanto al ambiente como a las poblaciones locales, especialmente indígenas. Evidencias recientes de Perú y Colombia confirman esas sospechas.
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Papers by Marc Dourojeanni
Book published in 1978 that relates the details and the situation of the initial effort to establish the national system of protected areas of Peru. It describes the progress made for 14 important protected areas, including Manu, Huascarán, Machu Picchu, Titicaca and Cerros de Amotape.
Theories regarding the importance of biogeochemical cycles were already being developed since the 1970s. The confirmation of the role of the Amazon as carbon sink added some international pressure for its protection. But, in general the many scientific discoveries regarding the Amazon were not helpful to improve its conservation. Instead, a combination of new agricultural technologies, anthropocentric philosophies and economic changes strongly promoted forest clearing.
Since the 1980s and as today the Amazon conservation efforts were increasingly diversified covering five theoretically complementary strategies: (i) more, larger and better managed protected areas, including biological corridors; (ii) more and larger indigenous territories; (iii) a series of “sustainable use” options such as “community based conservation”, sustainable forestry and agroforestry; (iv) financing of conservation trough debt swaps and climate change’s related financial mechanisms and; (v) better legislation, monitoring and control. Five small protected areas exist in the Amazon since the early 1960s but, responding to the road building boom of the 1970s, several larger patches of forests aiming at conserving viable samples of biological diversity were set aside. Today around 25 % of the Amazon is covered by protected areas but almost half correspond to categories that allow human presence and resources exploitation, and there is no effective management. Another 25.3 % pertain to indigenous people that may or not conserve the forest. Excluding superposition, both type of areas cover 41.2 % of the Amazon. None of the strategies neither alone nor in their conjunct fully achieved their objectives and development pressures and threats augment as roads and deforestation continues relentlessly with increasing funding by multilateral and national banks and pressure of transnational enterprises.
The future will be pointed by an unprecedented agriculture expansion and corresponding intensification of deforestation and forest degradation. Additionally, the Amazon basin will be impacted by new larger hydraulic works. Mining will increase and spread. Policy makers of Amazon countries still view the region as the future to expand conventional development and the population continues to be indifferent.