Communities arrangements, productive systems, scientific and technological inputs for land use and forest resources in Amazon

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is the examination of some of the current trends in Brazilian Amazon that are promoting significant changes in the standards of economic use involving some rain forests products. These new trends are demonstrating, in resume, an extensive modernization of economic activities that affect specifically the structure and dynamics of organized communities in this region. On the other hand, these trends also affect the linkage of these communities with the respective networking in each case. In many cases, the type of region networking is leaded by industrial companies. The research also indicate that the main sources of this new process are the market increase for products extracts in Amazon biodiversity, and beside this, both scale and level of processing. Finally, it approaches another strategic source of modernization, represented by a closer and effective participation of regional scientific research institutions in these new or emerging systems’.

Keywords

• Forest products
• Timber industry
• Emerging systems
• New technologies
• Land use
• Amazon