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Item type:Publication, La producción de nuevas naturalezas en la alta Amazonía peruana (1940-1981) y las tesis de Ester Boserup(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía (INTE-PUCP), 2023-08-31)The purpose of this work is to describe the historical, population, economic, and environmental conditions that led to the expansion of the agricultural and demographic frontier in the Peruvian high jungle, particularly in the Alto Huallaga basin, during the decades spanning from 1940 to the early 1980s. The text describes and analyzes how the dynamics of demographic frontier expansion, through highland-origin settler farmers, exerted intense pressure on natural resources, subsequent environmental degradation, and eventually regional demographic saturation. The migrant settlers continually reproduced their family units of production and consumption in frontier territories, thereby creating new natures and destroying others in the process. In this context, we aim to explore the links between demographic growth in the Alto Huallaga and the slash-and-burn agricultural systems that accompanied them, as well as the socio-environmental consequences and the ongoing feedback dynamics between these processes. In doing so, we put to the test the model of land use extensification and intensification proposed by economist Ester Boserup. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Árboles, religión y cambios socioambientales en los Andes centrales: El caso del "Schinus molle" L. en la Cordillera Negra, Perú(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía (INTE-PUCP), 2023-08-29)Based on the study of the history and Catholic cult of the Holy Cross of Ampushino, the article presents some preliminary findings, and proposes lines of future research, regarding the conceptualizations of nature among the inhabitants of the locality of Pamparomás (Cordillera Negra, Central Peru). To this end, the research traces the natural and cultural history of Schinus molle in the central Andes, the tree from whose branches the Cross of Ampushino’s emerged according to local tradition. It is hypothesized that the supernatural powers attributed to the cross by its devotees are closely related to pre-Hispanic religious traditions of this Andean region. Considering this historical and cultural background, ongoing environmental and social transformations in the area are described. Finally, the importance of a future research agenda is emphasized, one that highlights the study of ethical-environmental perspectives of local residents regarding environmental change, and the conjecture of the possible emergence of new visions of nature.