O impacto da regularização fundiária na economia verde
Estudo publicado pelo IPAM na revista Stanford Social Innovation Review Brasil, verificou a existência de 57 mil propriedades fora dos sistemas do INCRA, o que resulta em mais de 9,9 milhões de hectares de terras sem cadastro. Quando somadas às áreas já registradas...
Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought.
Considerable uncertainty surrounds the fate of Amazon rainforests in response to climate change. Here, carbon (C) flux predictions of five terrestrial biosphere models (Community Land Model version 3.5 (CLM3.5), Ecosystem Demography model version 2.1 (ED2),...
O estado atual das mudanças climáticas no Brasil com ênfase na Amazônia
Apresentação feita no evento " Caminhos para uma Agricultura Familiar sob Bases Ecológicas: Produzindo com Baixa Emissão de Carbono", realizado em Brasília em junho de 2013.
Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?
The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso was a global deforestation hotspot in the early 2000s. Deforested land is used predominantly to produce meat for distal consumption either through cattle ranching or soya bean for livestock feed. Deforestation declined...
Watershed responses to Amazon soya bean cropland expansion and intensification
The expansion and intensification of soya bean agriculture in southeastern Amazonia can alter watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry by changing the land cover, water balance and nutrient inputs. Several new insights on the responses of watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry to deforestation in Mato Grosso have emerged from recent intensive field campaigns in this region.
Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. Feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effect of future deforestation or assume that deforestation will...
Subsidies for a Cattle Ranching Intensification Subprogram in Acre: A State Analysis
The main objective of this technical report is to provide background information for Acre’s Incentive Program for Environmental Services (SISA) concerning the cattle ranching intensification subprogram.