Boletim do CIMC | Edição 3
O Comitê Indígena de Mudanças Climáticas (CIMC) tem a responsabilidade de acompanhar os debates nacionais e internacionais sobre o clima e divulga estudos realizados pelos povos indígenas sobre mudanças climáticas com o intuito de valorizar os conhecimentos...
REDD+ in the Post-Copenhagen World: Recommendations for Interim Public Finance
REDD holds the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent people, and conserve biodiversity. The interim public fundind announced during and since the COP15 could play a role in helping to realize this potential. The...
Relatório de atividades IPAM 2009
Relatório traz projetos e atividades desenvolvidos no ano de 2009, assim como informações sobre o conselho diretor, coordenadores e publicações.
Princípios e critérios socioambientais de REDD+
Documento que relata o resultado de um processo amplo de construção, que se iniciou com a elaboração de uma primeira versão em outubro de 2009 por um grupo multissetorial da sociedade brasileira.
Social Movements and Large-Scale Tropical Forest Protection on the Amazon Frontier: Conservation From Chaos
Amazon social movements arose, like many others globally, in conflicts with political and economic elites over land use and resource extraction. Amazon social movements have moved beyond protest to protagonize large-scale forest protection. The article examines the...
Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective
Drought varies spatially and temporally throughout the Amazon basin, challenging efforts to assess ecological impacts via field measurements alone. Remote sensing offers a range of regional insights into drought‐mediated changes in cloud cover and rainfall, canopy...
Predicting moisture dynamics of fine understory fuels in a moist tropical rainforest system: results of a pilot study undertaken to identify proxy variables useful for rating fire danger
The use of fire as a land management tool in the moist tropics often has the unintended consequence of degrading adjacent forest, particularly during severe droughts. Reliable models of fire danger are needed to help mitigate these impacts. Here, we studied the...