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The Amazon rainforest, containing over 40% of the world’s remaining tropical forest, is particularly important in maintaining global and regional systems.  However, the degradation of the Amazon rainforest continues despite global economic uncertainty and concern stemming from global warming (Betts et al. 2008).  Previously, the most isolated areas of the Amazon rainforest lay alongside the Amazon’s 12,000 km of international boundary.  However, these culturally and ecologically rich Amazonian border zones have recently been targeted for development, even as these zones often double as existing or proposed sites for the conservation of biodiversity and protection of indigenous lands.  How local people adapt to both the modernizing forces of conservation and development will have important ramifications for the land-cover and land-use of these ecologically critical regions.  Nevertheless, to model adaptation we need Amazon wide baseline data about the diverse interactions between local people and their environment.  This applied research proposal focuses on human-environment dynamics of the Peruvian Amazon’s lower Abujao River.\nThe Abujao River winds down from Peru’s international boundary with Brazil to empty close to the rapidly growing city of Pucallpa.  Once part of the unmapped Amazonian borderlands, this river has come under increasing scrutiny with the dual and divergent proposals of the Sierra del Divisor conservation corridor (Vriesendorp et al. 2006) and the transboundary Pucallpa-Cruzeiro do Sul highway (Conover 2003).  Despite these proposals, and the proximity of Pucallpa, the river and riverside inhabitants remain poorly understood (Vela 2008).  In 2004, the Centro de Investigación de Fronteras Amazónicas (CIFA) of the Peru’s Universidad Nacional de Ucayali (UNU) studied two communities at the headwaters of the river (Salisbury 2007).  Since then, CIFA has continued to study the Abujao watershed in partnership with the World Bank’s Amazon Livelihood and Environment Network (RA","cbCaicXmoflGLmIq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicXmoflGLmIq","docx",443499,"English","# Application for Approval of Research\n## Institutional Review Board Information\n## Study Details\n## Review of Literature","[{\"question\":\"Who is the applicant and what is their role in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Leigh Ann West is the Principle Investigator and an undergraduate student. 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