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Percy Summers

Percy Summers

Former Conservation International-Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Professor of Practice, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

pmsummer@asu.edu

Titles

  • Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Former Conservation International-Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Professor of Practice, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

Biography

Percy Summers, former Conservation International-Center for Biodviersty Outcomes Professor of Practice, is the Director of the Sustainable Landscape Partnership, which aims to establish a public private facility to promote low carbon emission businesses in the Alto Mayo basin in the North Eastern Peruvian Amazon. He has been part of the CI Peru Team since 2009 when he joined as the Ecosystem Services Coordinator leading the identification and study of ecosystem services schemes. Percy has a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from Virginia Tech, a MSc in Tropical Forestry from the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, and a Forestry Science degree from North Carolina State University. His Ph.D. thesis followed land use and social change among small landholder farmers in Brazil looking at land use and social change. His MSc thesis focused on the role of coarse woody debris in tropical forest ecosystems. Before joining CI, Percy was part of the Amazon Community-based Natural Resource Management Research Initiative (ACRI) living among indigenous and riverine communities and studying their fisheries and forest management systems. He is an expert in conservation and development issues in the Amazon region with an interdisciplinary lens, integrating the social aspects of conservation with the scientific and technical issues for a wide range of interests from community-based natural resources management to climate change processes. In his spare time, Percy owns a small farm in the foothills of the Yanachaga-Chemillen National Park where he grows ecologically friendly-native fruits and in the neighboring cloud forest a conservation concession.

Education

  • PhD, Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2008
  • MSc, Tropical Forestry, Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas De Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil, 1998
  • BS, Forest Sciences, North Carolina State University, 1995

Expertise

Journal Articles

2008

Browder, J. O., M. A. Pedlowski, R. Walker, R. Wynne, P. M. Summers, A. Abad, N. Becerra-Cordoba and J. Mil-Homens. 2008. Revisiting theories of frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A survey of the colonist farming population in Rondônia's post-frontier, 1992-2002. World Development 36(8):1469-1492. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.08.008. (link )

2007

Wynne, R. H., K. A. Joseph, J. O. Browder and P. M. Summers. 2007. Comparing farmer-based and satellite-derived deforestation estimates in the Amazon basin using a hybrid classifier. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(6):1299-1315. DOI: 10.1080/01431160600928609. (link )

2004

Browder, J. O., M. A. Pedlowski and P. M. Summers. 2004. Land use patterns in the Brazilian Amazon: Comparative farm-level evidence from Rondônia. Human Ecology 32(2):197-224. DOI: 10.1023/B:HUEC.0000019763.73998.c9. (link )

Summers, P. M., J. O. Browder and M. A. Pedlowski. 2004. Tropical forest management and silvicultural practices by small farmers in the Brazilian Amazon: recent farm-level evidence from Rondônia. Forest Ecology and Management 192(2-3):161-177. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.12.016. (link )

Book Chapters

2012

Summers, P. M., G. Torres Alva and G. Catchpole. 2012. Bosques enanos, grandes servicios: Estudio de caso sobre valoración ambiental y mitigación de impactos de gran infraestructura en el Bosque de Sho´llet, Oxapampa. In: Hajek, F. and P. Martinez de Anguita eds., ¿Gratis? - Los servicios de la Naturaleza y como sostenerlos en el Peru. Servicios Ecosistémicos Perú, Tarea Gráfica. Lima, Peru. ISBN: 9786124629204.

Reports

2014

Aldave, M. and P. M. Summers. 2014. Plantas Útiles en las Riberas del Pichis. Instituto del Bien Común.

Report Chapters

2017

Summers, P. M. and P. M. Rios. 2017. El Mundo de los Bosques. In: Smith, R. C. and C. Soria eds., Atlas de las Comunidades Nativas y Áreas Naturales Protegidas del Noreste de la Amazonía peruana. Instituto del Bien Común.

2016

Soria, C. and P. M. Summers. 2016. Limitaciones para la comprensión de los socioecosistemas y su inserción en las políticas públicas. Los bosques y el cambio climático en el Perú. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. : Forest and Climate Change Working Paper 14. (link )

2008

Soria Dall'Orso, C. A., P. M. Summers and S. V. Rodriguez Flores. 2008. La política pesquera y la pesca artesanal en el río Neguache, Pichis. Pp. 112-140 In: Damonte, G., B. Fulcrand and R. Gomez eds., Perú: El Problema Agrario en Debate – SEPIA XII. SEPIA. (link )

2002

Summers, P. M. and D. Pinedo. 2002. Bienes communes enraizados: Descripcion densa de dos casos de manejo comunitario en la Amazonia Peruana. Pp. 107-147 In: Pulgar Vidal, M., E. Zegarra and J. Urrutia eds., Perú: El problema agrario en debate - SEPIA IX. SEPIA. Peru. (link )