Brazil-China Cooperation for Sustainable Development
IPAM produces research on the relationship between Brazil and China across climate, trade, and environmental conservation agendas - from protecting the Cerrado and the Amazon to opportunities for sustainable cooperation between the two countries. Explore two IPAM...
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin‐wide Amazon forest plot data?
Positive aboveground biomass trends have been reported from old‐growth forests across the Amazon basin and hypothesized to reflect a large‐scale response to exterior forcing. The result could, however, be an artefact due to a sampling bias induced by the nature of...
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?
Positive aboveground biomass trends have been reported from old-growth forests across the Amazon basin and hypothesized to reflect a large-scale response to exterior forcing. The result could, however, be an artefact due to a sampling bias induced by the nature of...
Para estudar queimadas, pesquisadores incendeiam floresta em MT
Reportagem do Portal Globo Amazônia aborda o projeto Savanização, do Programa Cenários do IPAM. GLOBO AMAZÔNIA - BARBOSA, DENNIS. Para estudar queimadas, pesquisadores incendeiam floresta em MT. São Paulo. Setembro de 2009.
Paying to save the rainforests
Reportagem publicada na revista Nature, em inglês, sobre projeto de pagamento por conservação da floresta, o Fundo Amazônia, ao longo da Transamazônica. Jeff Tollefson. Paying to save the rainforests. Revista Nature. Volume 460. 20 de agosto de...
Paving the REDD road in the Brazilian Amazon
In this publication, IPAM briefly presents two on-the-ground initiatives with potential for REDD in the Brazilian Amazon that could be useful to create the basis of a National REDD regime in Brazil and, perhaps, in other tropical countries. ALENCAR, A.; CASTRO, I.;...
Workshop on climate change in the Amazon River Basin: diagnostic of the current situation and development of strategic action
Resumo do workshop "Mudanças Climáticas na Bacia Amazônica: Diagnóstico da situação atual e desenvolvimento da ação estratégica", que teve lugar em Quito, no Equador. Esse documento está em inglês.