Welcome to the Colonial Amazon Project
We investigate the socio-environmental impact of modern colonialism in the Amazon
It is a collaborative and transdisciplinary research project that focuses on the socio-environmental impact of modern colonialism in the Amazon. Both indigenous people and colonizers transformed the Amazonian landscape and shaped its territory, but in what way?
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The Colonial Amazon Project is the subject of an article in the magazine Pesquisa FAPESP. Researchers associated with the project discuss the plant species that were exploited by the Portuguese, driving the Amazonian economy during the colonial period.
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Article
The objective is to understand the relationship between two types of practices: agricultural production and extraction of forest products.
scientific publications
Article
The relationship with nature of the Amazonian peoples, both present and past, allows the conservation and above all the increase of Amazonian biodiversity.
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This website was created with financial support from the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP). The content is the responsibility of the project “Between a deep past and an imminent future: human action and the environmental impact of modern colonialism in the Amazon (16th-18th centuries), and should in no way be considered to reflect the views of the São Paulo Research Foundation. Research Grant – Initial Proposal Process n. 2022/02896-0.
Created by Tayná Gonçalves © 2025
Created by Tayná Gonçalves © 2025