Soluções climáticas pelo olhar de povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais: Estudos de caso da iniciativa Juventude pelo Clima
A publicação tem como objetivo dar visibilidade às soluções climáticas construídas por povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais a partir de seus próprios territórios, saberes e modos de vida. A obra destaca o protagonismo de jovens indígenas, quilombolas e...
Some doubts about concessions in Brazil – Should Brazil shelve its proposed system of forest concessions?
The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil inherited, in its National Forest Program, a formidable proposal to increase the area designated to national forests (Flonas) in the Amazon from eight to 50 million hectares by the year 2010. This objective is...
Moving Toward Sustainability in the Local Management of Floodplain Lake Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon
Local management systems are generally regarded as traditional systems developed over generations. However, in the Brazilian Amazon, as in many other regions, community or collective management is a response to more recent changes in the exploitation of local...
Influence of leaf-cutting ant nests on secondary forest growth and soil properties in Amazonia
Leaf‐cutting ants (Atta spp.) often increase in abundance following deforestation and may have an important effect on forest succession on abandoned land. In this study, we evaluated the effects of leaf‐cutting ant (Atta sexdens) activity on physical and chemical...
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.