International policy commitments highlight the importance of balancing agricultural development with conservation of tropical forest landscapes for climate change mitigation (UNFCCC, 2015), biodiversity conservation (CBD, 2010), and generally sustainable development trajectories (UN, 2015). The Amazon basin has over the last decades become one of the major producer and exporter regions of agricultural commodities (Macedo et al., 2012) at the expense of rampant deforestation (Nepstad et al., 2014; Soares-Filho et al., 2006).
Roads, conservation and governance: lessons from the BR-163 regional planning process
Roads, conservation and governance: lessons from the BR-163 regional planning process
This paper describes the main socioeconomic groups involved in the BR-163 paving debate, as well as, documents the steps that were taken to design the regional planning process for building this major Amazon road corridor.