Caminhos para a recuperação florestal
The future of tropical forests depends on their ability to resist and recover from multiple disturbances. Here, we evaluated how edge effects, experimental fires, extreme droughts, and blowdowns reshaped forest structure, composition, and functional traits over two...
A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon?
In their Policy Forum "National forests in the Amazon” (30 Aug., p. 1478), A. Veríssimo et al. seem assured that a new system of national forests will solve the problems of uncontrolled forest exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon. Unfortunately, we are far less...
A Amazônia será ocupada
A revista Veja publicou entrevista realizada com o pesquisador associado do WHRC, David McGrath, que fala sobre sobre a ação do homem no ambiente amazônico.
Florestas Familiares: Um pacto sócio-ambiental entre a indústria madeireira e a agricultura familiar na Amazônia
O objetivo deste relatório é analisar as perspectivas para a governança da indústria madeireira na Amazônia.
Mobilização Social e Encontros Regionais BR-163 e Xingu
Este documento contém uma breve descrição, assim como o documento final de cada um dos quatro encontros.
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...