[NEW] Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes, and C. Abizaid. Forthcoming. “Tropical forests provide gendered insurance against illness.” Land Economics.
[NEW] Poissant, David, O.T. Coomes, B. E. Robinson, Y. Takasaki, and C. Abizaid. 2023. Livelihoods and poverty in small-scale fisheries in western Amazonia. Fisheries Management and Ecology.
[NEW] Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes and C. Abizaid. 2023. Tropical forests provide insurance against COVID-19. Ecology & Society 28(3): 8
Collard, E., Salisbury, D.S., Fequis, B. Herrenkohl, E., Abizaid, C., Spera, S. A. 2023. COVID-19 within Indigenous Communities of the Southwestern Amazon: A Transboundary Case Study / COVID-19 dentro de las comunidades indígenas de la Amazonía suroeste: un estudio de caso transfronterizo. Poster. Meeting of the Conference of Latin American Geography.
Takasaki, Y., C. Abizaid, and O.T. Coomes. 2022, COVID-19 contagion across remote communities in tropical forests. Scientific Reports 12, 20727 (2022).
Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes, C. Abizaid and M. Kalacska. 2022. Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(40): e2116446119.
Coomes, O. T., Takasaki, and C. Abizaid. 2022. Sparing of Amazonian old-growth forests with floodplain access. Nature Sustainability 5(11): 965–972.
Coomes, O. T., Takasaki, and C. Abizaid. 2022. Floodplain agriculture can prevent the disturbance of rainforests in Amazonia. Research Briefing Nature Sustainability 5(11): 922–923.
Langill, J.C., C. Abizaid, Y. Takasaki, and O.T. Coomes. 2022. Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards: assessing extreme flooding in western Amazonia. Global Environmental Change 76: 102585.
Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes and C. Abizaid. 2022. COVID-19 information and self-protective behaviors among rural communities in tropical forests, BMC Public Health 22: 1394
Coomes, O.T., C. Abizaid, S. Breau and T. R. Moore. 2022. The academic job market in Geography in the United States. The Professional Geographer 74(4): 602-619.
Abizaid, C., O. T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki. 2022. Lifeways and currents of change in the Peruvian Amazon: A 1000 km boat journey down the Ucayali River. Focus on Geography. 65:1.
Collard, E., E. Hellenkhol, D. Salisbury, C. Abizaid, L.A. Collado Panduro, and S. Spera. 2022. COVID-19 within indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon: an Ucayali case study. Poster, Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
Kalacska, M., J.P. Arroyo-Mora, O.T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki and C. Abizaid. 2022. Multi-temporal surface water classification for four major rivers from the Peruvian Amazon. Data. 7(1): 6.
Coomes, O.T., M. Kalacska, Y. Takasaki, C. Abizaid and T. Grupp. 2022. Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia. Environmental Research Letters 17(1): 014024.
Coomes, O.T., Y. Cheng, Y. Takasaki and C. Abizaid. 2021. What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon. Ecological Economics 189, 107170.
Coomes, O.T., S. Rivas Panduro, C. Abizaid and Y. Takasaki. 2021. Geolocation of unpublished archaeological sites in the Peruvian Amazon. Scientific Data 8, 290
Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes and C. Abizaid. 2021. COVID-19 among rural peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Policy brief. Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods and Poverty (PARLAP) Project, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes y C. Abizaid. 2021. COVID-19 en las comunidades rurales de la Amazonía Peruana: Resumen de política. Proyecto sobre Pobreza y Formas de Vida Rural en la Amazonía Peruana (PARLAP), Universidad de Tokio, Tokio, Japón.
Abizaid, C., L.A. Collado Panduro, and S. Gonzales Egusquiza. 2020. Pobreza y medios de subsistencia en la Amazonía Peruana en tiempos de la COVID-19. Journal of Latin American Geography 19 (3): 202-215.
Coomes, O.T., Y. Takasaki, and C. Abizaid. 2020. Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia: a large-scale community survey of local ecological knowledge. Environmental Research Letters. 15(7).
Langill, J. and C. Abizaid. 2020. What is a bad flood? Local perspectives of extreme floods in the Peruvian Amazon. Ambio 49:1423–143.
Abizaid, C., O.T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki and J. P. Arroyo-Mora. 2018. Rural social networks along Amazonian rivers: seeds, labor and soccer among rural communities on the Napo River, Peru, The Geographical Review 108(1): 92-119.
• Selected as the 2018 Best Paper Award published by The Geographical Review.
Abizaid, C., O.T. Coomes, and M. Perrault-Archambault. 2016. Seed sharing in Amazonian indigenous rain forest communities: a social network analysis in three Achuar villages, Peru. Human Ecology 44(5): 577-594.
Coomes, O.T., Y. Takasaki, C. Abizaid and J.P. Arroyo-Mora. 2016. Environmental and market determinants of economic orientation among rain forest communities: evidence from a large-scale survey in western Amazonia, Ecological Economics 129: 260-271.
Webster, K., J.P. Arroyo-Mora, O.T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki and C. Abizaid. 2016. A cost path and network analysis methodology to calculate distances along a complex river network in the Peruvian Amazon, Applied Geography 73:13-25.
Abizaid, C., O.T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki, and S. Brisson. 2015. Social network analysis and peasant agriculture: cooperative labor as gendered relational networks. The Professional Geographer 67(3): 447-463.
Takasaki, Y., O.T. Coomes, C. Abizaid, and S. Brisson. 2014. An efficient nonmarket institution under imperfect markets: labor sharing for tropical forest clearing. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96(3): 711-732.
Coomes, O.T., Y. Takasaki, C. Abizaid and B. Barham. 2010. Floodplain fisheries as natural insurance for the rural poor in tropical forest environments: evidence from Amazonia. Fisheries Management and Ecology 17: 513-521.
Coomes, O.T., C. Abizaid and M. Lapointe. 2009. Human modification of a large meandering Amazonian river: genesis, ecological and economic consequences of the Masisea cutoff on the central Ucayali, Peru. Ambio 38(3): 130-34.
Abizaid, C. 2005. An anthropogenic meander cutoff along the Ucayali River, Peruvian Amazon. The Geographical Review 95(1): 122-134.
Abizaid, C. and O.T. Coomes. 2004. Land use and forest fallowing dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forest in the southern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Land Use Policy 21(1): 71-84.
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