Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency
Regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and economic efficiency, as well as the total elasticity of scale in the commercial fishing fleets of the Brazilian Amazon were analysed. Data were collected in 893 interviews with boat operators in four major ports...
The commercial fishing sector in the regional economy of the Brazilian Amazon
The purpose of this study was to determine the magnitude of the fisheries sector along the Amazon River in Brazil. Total income and employment were estimated for the principal activities comprising the fisheries sector: fish processing plants, stores selling...
Community fisheries and co-management on the Lower Amazon floodplain of Brazil
In response to the growth of Amazon commercial fisheries, a loose regional network of communitymanaged lakes has proliferated throughout the Amazon floodplain system. This approach has been widely perceived as a promising alternative for the sustainable management...
Café para viagem: um guia simplificado para auxiliar diálogos durante um World Café
Este é um guia simplificado para auxiliar os diálogos durante um World Café e foi elaborado pela entidade The World Café Community. O material faz parte da leitura complementar do Módulo Vermelho, chamado "Facilitação de Processos Participativos", um dos sete temas...
The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest
Moist tropical forests in Amazonia and elsewhere are subjected to increasingly severe drought episodes through the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and possibly through deforestation-driven reductions in rainfall. The effects of this trend on tropical forest...
O Prejuízo Oculto do Fogo: Custos Econômicos das Queimadas e Incêndios Florestais na Amazônia
Relatório do Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) em colaboração com o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) e o Centro de Pesquisa Woods Hole (WHRC) sobre os prejuízos dos incêndios e queimadas florestais....