ABSTRACT
T His chapter contrasts two sites in the Legal Brazilian Amazon 1 to discuss how gender issues have been addressed in different types of community-based forest management. Given the spatial distribution of deforestation in the Amazon, an “arc of deforestation” that advances northward and westward (see map in Wood 2002, 5), we selected an Extractive Settlement Project (PAE) 2 in the westernmost state of Acre as our forest-rich site and a conventional Settlement Project (PA) 3 in the easternmost state of Maranhão as a forest-poor site. 4
