Woods Hole Research Center

Associate Scientist
Woods Hole Research Center
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540-1644

Phone:

508-444-1549

Fax:

508-444-1849

Email:

Education

Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989, Geography
Thesis: The Paraense Traders -Small-scale, Long Distance Trade in the Brazilian Amazon.

M.A. - University of Arizona
1983, Geography and Regional Development
Thesis: The Concept of Environment in Early Twentieth Century American Geographic Thought.

B.A. - Harvard University
1976 - Special Concentration Man and his Enironment

Professional Experience

• 2001 - present: Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
• 2001 - present: Vice-Coordinator Doctoral Program in the Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropics, PDTU, NAEA, UFPa, Belém, PA
• 1998 - present: Professor (on leave), Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA), Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA.
• 1992 - 1998: Visiting Professor, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA.
• 1988 - 1990: Visiting Professor, Geography Department, University of New Mexico.

Research Interests

Small-scale inland fisheries and policy approaches for the co-management of fisheries and other floodplain resources. Smallholder settlement, community forestry and development of forest co-management systems. Integrating conservation and land use policies for sustainable aproaches to Amazon development. Evolution of conservation policy for Tropical forest regions.

Selected publications

Stickler C.M., Nepstad, D.C., Coe, M.C., Rodrigues, H.O., McGrath, M.D., Davidson, E.A., Walker, W.S., Soares-Filho, B.S. 2009. The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study. Global Change Biology 15:2803-2824.

Almeida, O.T., K . Lorenzen And D . G. McGrath. 2008. Fishing agreements in the lower Amazon for gain and restraint. Fisheries Management and Ecology.

McGrath, D. A. Cardoso, O. T. Almeida, J. Pezzuti. 2008. Constructing a policy and institutional framework for an ecosystem-based approach to managing the lower Amazon floodplain. Environment, Development and Sustainability 10, p. 677-695

McGrath, D., O. T. Almeida and F. D. Merry. 2007. The influence of community management agreements on household economic strategies: cattle grazing and fishing agreements on the lower Amazon floodplain. International Journal of the Commons 1(1): 101-121.

McGrath, D. G., E M Do C. 2006. Dias. Soja na amazônia: impactos ambientais e estratégias de mitigação. Ciência e Ambiente 32:. 151-165.

Sheikh, Pervaze A., Merry, Frank D., and McGrath, D. G. 2006. Water buffalo and cattle ranching in the lower amazon basin: comparisons and conflicts. Agricultural Systems, 87: 313-330.

McGrath, D. and S.P. da Gama. 2005. Estudo de Áreas Comunitárias na Várzea Amazônica nos Municípios de Santarém-PA, Silves-AM e Tefé-AM. Chapter in J. H. Benatti, (Coord).. A Questão Fundiária e o Manejo dos Recursos Naturais da Várzea: Análise para Elaboração de Novos Modelos Jurídicos. Provárzea-Ibama. Manaus.

McGrath, D. G.; Peters, C. M; Bentes, A. J. M. 2004. Community forestry for small-scale furniture production in the Brazilian Amazon. Pages 200-220 in Zarin, D., Alavalapati, J. R. R.; Putz, F. E.; Schmink, M. (Org.). Working forests in the Neotropics: Conservation Through Sustainable Management? New York, pp. 200-220.

Nepstad, D., McGrath, D., Alencar, A., Barros, A., Carvalho, G., Santilli, M. and Vera Dias, C. 2002. Frontier Governance in Amazonia. Science 295: 629-630.

Almeida, O., McGrath, D. and Ruffino, M.. 2001. The Commercial Fisheries of the Lower Amazon: An Economic Analysis. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 8(3):15-35.

McGrath, David G., Castro, Fabio de, Futemma, Celia R., Amaral, Benedito D. De, and Araujo, Juliana C. De. 1993. Fisheries and the evolution of resource management on the lower Amazonian floodplain. Human Ecology 22(2): 167-195