The Human-Rainforest Gradient : Reclaiming Local Nature in Brazilian Amazon Culture.
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Nozaki, Tatiana
issued: 2020-05-15T20:05:08Z
issued: 2020-05
description: A divide prevails in the Brazilian Amazon’s most deforested area known as the “Deforestation Arc”. It separates humans from nature, wild from civilized. This divide, expressed as a single spatial manifestation, an edge between rainforest and human inhabited spaces, is perpetuated by attitudes towards local ecologies, local and global economies, and political governance. The divide grows sharper and more defined with deforestation, fires, and agriculture, continuing to threaten biodiversity, fuel armed conflicts between stakeholders, and exacerbate desertification and land degradation. The Human-Rainforest Gradient seeks to reclaim the presence of local ecologies in this contested landscape. By carving away at binary relationships with the rainforest that still frame it as uncivilized and wild, this thesis proposes a wider gradient of human-rainforest interface. The absence of local ecologies in public schools throughout the “Deforestation Arc” is a microcosm of the nature-culture divide. As such, it provides an opportunity to disrupt the divide during young Brazilians’ formative developmental years. In this project, children are agents of bottom-up change by upcycling new relationships with local ecologies and interrelated social practices with their surroundings.
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note: the human-rainforestgradient reclaiming local nature in Brazillian Amazon cultureGP BOOKLET // THE HUMAN-RAINFOREST GRADIENT // Tatiana Nozakithe human-rainforest gradient reclaiming local nature in Brazillian Amazon culture 2019 - 2020 Graduate Project submitted in partial fulfilment of Master’s of Landscape Architecture Degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Student: Tatiana NozakiAdvisor: Susan HerringtonGP BOOKLET // 2019 - 20203I would like to thank my advisor, Susan Herrington, for her continued support and guidance throughout this journey. GP BOOKLET // THE HUMAN-RAINFOREST GRADIENT // Tatiana Nozakitable of contents1. statement of thesis...........................................................................................................22. context.............................................................................................................................9 2.1 environmental....................................................................................................10 the forest and its canopy..............................................................................10 biodiversity.........................................................................................10 hydrology...........................................................................................10 threats of climate change and deforestation...............................................11 desertification ..................................................................................11 tipping point.....................................................................................11 becoming carbon positive.................................................................12 2.2 economical.......................................................................................................14 reasons of deforestation..............................................................................14 cattle......…
has type: Graduating Project
spatial: Brazil
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0390885
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. LARC 598
subject: Landscape Architecture
subject: Amazon
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74481