Alaine Alexandria Ball

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Produções bibliográficas

• BALL, ALAINE ; GOUZERH, ALICE ; BRANCALION, PEDRO . Multi-Scalar Governance for Restoring the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: A Case Study on Small Landholdings in Protected Areas of Sustainable Development. Forests , v. 5, p. 599-619, 2014.

• BALL, A. A. . We live more like Indians than Indians : Traditional identity, swidden agriculture, and boundary-making in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Tropical Resources: The Bulletin of the Yale Tropical Resources Institute , v. 31, p. 20-30, 2012.

• BALL, A. A. . Claiming space and identity in a contested landscape: Traditional agriculture in and around the Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins. In: International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO): Protected Areas and Place Making, 2013, Foz do Iguaçu. Protected Areas and Place Making: How do we provide conservation, landscape management, tourism, human health and regional development?. Piracicaba, SP: Departamento de Ciências Florestais--ESALQ/USP, 2013. p. 122-128.

• BALL, A. A. . Linking sustainable use of a threatened species to its conservation status: A policy perspective for the palm Euterpe edulis in the Atlantic Forest Hotspot. 2014. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Congresso).

• BALL, A. A. . Claiming space and identity in a contested landscape: Traditional agriculture in and around the Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins. 2013. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Congresso).

• BALL, A. A. . Aspectos Sociais e Culturais da Restauração Ecológica em Comunidades Tradicionais da Mata Atlântica. 2013. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Simpósio).

• BALL, A. A. . We live more like Indians than Indians : Traditional identity, swidden agriculture, and boundary-making in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. 2012. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Simpósio).

• BALL, A. A. . Traditional agriculture in protected areas: Forest use conflict in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. 2011. (Apresentação de Trabalho/Seminário).

• BALL, A. A. ; VARNS, T. S. . An assessment of smallholder engagement with socio-environmental NGOs in Southern Bahia, Brazil, with particular reference to smallholder land-use systems. Hauppauge, New York, EUA: Nova Science Publishers, 2015 (capítulo aceito para publicação).

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• 2012 - 2014

  Desenvolvimento da polpa da juçara (Euterpe edulis) como novo produto florestal e a conservação da espécie, Descrição: In the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot of Brazil, NGOs, researchers, and community leaders are encouraging the commercialization of fruit pulp-based products from the endangered juçara palm (Euterpe edulis) as a more sustainable income source than illegal heart of palm extraction, thus fulfilling development needs of communities while improving conservation of the species. However, major barriers exist to the development of this new product, and the effect of these projects on conservation status of the species is unknown. We conducted qualitative research to assess the potential to increase conservation of E. edulis through management on smallholder properties in São Paulo State, identifying barriers in efforts to replace income from heart of palm with income from fruit pulp. Major difficulties include production and commercialization challenges and continued high rates of poaching, though farmers cite several reasons for recent decreases in heart of palm extraction rates. We conclude that this effort will fail unless both policies for native fruit management and farmer social capital are improved. However, engagement with fruit pulp production links farmers with sustainable agricultural concepts and with networks, changing their perceptions of conservation and enhancing ability to benefit from improved policy. This study offers valuable lessons for practitioners and policy makers in other high biodiversity, developing countries concerned with socially engaged approaches to conservation of threatened species and ecosystems.. , Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Alaine Alexandria Ball - Coordenador / Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion - Integrante., Financiador(es): The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, - Bolsa.

• 2012 - 2012

  Diagnóstico Rápido para o Instituto Floresta Viva, Ilhéus, Brasil, Descrição: Diagnóstico rápido social e ecológico, com uma equipe de oito estudantes da Universidade de Yale, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, para o Instituto Floresta Viva, Ilhéus, Brasil. O diagnóstico foi realizado durante uma semana e teve por objetivo analisar e dar recomendações para o melhoramento das atividades do Instituto, como: práticas técnicas do viveiro de espécies nativas; sistema de pagamento para sementes colhidas por agricultores familiares; práticas da restauração florestal e outros projetos de desenvolvimento com agricultores familiares. Avaliações sociais, ecológicas, técnicas (sensoriamento remoto) e agrícolas foram realizadas. Eu e um colaborador fomos responsáveis pela coleta de dados sociais sobre conhecimento de espécies arbóreas nativas e uso da terra por agricultores familiares.. , Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Alunos envolvidos: Mestrado acadêmico: (4) / Mestrado profissional: (5) . , Integrantes: Alaine Alexandria Ball - Integrante / Theodore S. Varns - Integrante / Mark S. Ashton - Coordenador / Ryan Sarsfield - Integrante / Sharon Smith - Integrante / Danielle Rappaport - Integrante / David Ross - Integrante / Rachel Kramer - Integrante / Patrick Hook - Integrante / Leigh Whelpton - Integrante., Financiador(es): Yale University - Cooperação.

• 2011 - 2012

  Agricultura Tradicional na Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins, Descrição: As conservation practitioners increasingly acknowledge the need to consider local peoples in strategies to preserve biological diversity, the global conservation narrative has shifted away from an emphasis on protected areas absent of people to efforts to support the economic and cultural well-being of populations residing within or adjacent to protected areas. However, multiple factors, including different perceptions of landscape and livelihood, result in conflicting land-use objectives among actors. This tension persists in and around the Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins (EEJI), a fully protected area of coastal São Paulo, Brazil, where local caiçara residents continually contest their right to remain living and practicing swidden agriculture on ancestral lands now designated as an ecological station and as areas of environmental protection (APAs). In Brazil, many traditional communities live within and adjacent to protected areas, limiting their ability to practice traditional resource management such as swidden agriculture and to adaptively respond to change. The continued practice of swidden agriculture in contested landscapes is uncertain, and unintended consequences of conservation plans that neglect existing human populations may include loss of cultural knowledge that contributes to the resilience of communities. Based on qualitative fieldwork undertaken in communities in and around the EEJI, this study considers how traditional agricultural practices, cultural identity, and perceptions of conservation and sustainability may be responsive and adaptive to socio-political change, and how local people and conservation projects negotiate contested land use. Focusing on swidden agriculture as a central phenomenon, I consider how boundary creation constructs and produces traditional identity, how identity and agricultural practices in turn influence these boundaries, and how traditionality is employed to include, exclude, and make claims. Data from interviews and participant observation indicate that spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries operate within a complex social-ecological system of ongoing negotiation and contestation between residents of the EEJI, government, and environmental NGOs. This results in changes in agricultural systems, altered perceptions of cultural identity, and uncertain governance that permits the continued practice of disciplined swidden agriculture. I argue that actors define traditional identity and boundaries from positions in relation to other actors, and that they predicate the functionality of their definitions on the potential stability of these terms. However, traditional identity and boundaries are unstable concepts that act on each other, precluding the use of fixed forms operable within the framework of Brazilian environmental law. This process manifests in the practice of and negotiations over swidden agriculture, which in turn influence identity and the imagining and reimagining of boundaries. . , Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Alunos envolvidos: Mestrado acadêmico: (1) . , Integrantes: Alaine Alexandria Ball - Coordenador., Financiador(es): Tropical Resources Institute - Bolsa / Yale University - Bolsa.

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