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Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil

2023; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-22680-9_3

2366-3421

David S. Salisbury, Claire Victoria Powell, Bertha Balbín Ordaya, Pedro Tipula Tipula, Desiree Estilita Alvarado, Miguel Alva Huayaney, Vera Reis Brown, Elaine Monteiro Cardoso Lopes, A. Melo, Sidney Novoa Sheppard, Maria Luiza Pinedo Ochoa, Piero Enmanuel Rengifo Cardenas, Sonaira Souza da Silva, José Frank de Melo Silva, Stephanie Spera, Jorge Washington Vela Alvarado, David Orlando González Gamarra,

Indigenous Health and Education

The Amazon borderlands’ combination of remoteness, lack of state presence, high levels of biocultural diversity, abundant resources, flows of people and goods, and a lack of geographic information creates significant challenges for transboundary cooperation to reconcile conservation and development despite shared biophysical and cultural landscapes. Preliminary transboundary maps opened the eyes of governmental and non-governmental organizations and civil society to the previously invisible landscapes of the neighboring countries. Increasing demand for transboundary maps and analysis led to the Transboundary Geographic Group of the Southwestern Amazon’s (GTASO for its acronym in Spanish) mapping workshops in 2012, 2013, and 2019 that broadened the public’s understanding of these unique and important borderland landscapes on both sides of the border. GTASO grew out of collaborations between researchers seeking to map the remote Amazon borderlands of Peru and Brazil. This chapter describes the evolution of GTASO efforts to map the Amazon borderlands shared by Acre, Brazil, and Ucayali and Madre de Dios, Peru, and to a lesser extent Pando, Bolivia. We first describe the Amazon rainforest and borderlands, PanAmazonia mapping efforts, and the national mapping approaches of Peru and Brazil, and then present a critical reflection on the GTASO transboundary mapping initiative and its outcomes.