David S. Salisbury

I am a human-environment geographer interested in the reconciliation of conservation and development in the humid tropics of Latin America. More specifically, my research focuses on the Amazon borderlands shared by the nine nation states straddling or adjoining the Amazon basin. These poorly understood borderlands stretch across the international boundary from one advancing settlement frontier to another and are a culturally, ecologically, and natural resource rich battleground contested between indigenous peoples, conservationists, illegal resource extractors, colonists, drug runners, and development oriented policy makers.