Abstract
Developments in the past two decades reveal that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has become a complex process involving a multiplicity of agents and means of change. Along with large-scale clearing of forests for cattle ranches and swidden agriculture (practiced by displaced peasants and indigent immigrants), logging-led clearing has become the major threat to the forests of Amazonia. The complexity of this environmental change is analyzed by pointing out the deficiencies of neo-Malthusian population dynamics and the ‘tragedy of the commons’ theories. A new theory of socio-ecological dynamics of environmental change, proposed by Peter Taylor and Raul Gracia-Barrios, has been proposed as an alternative, and, finally, some possible solutions to prevent deforestation have been proposed.
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