Accelerating Equitable Adaptation Strategies in the Amazon Amid Climate Change
Protecting and adapting vulnerable Amazonian peoples and communities to climate change, although costly, is the most economical way to prevent environmental collapse and to shield Brazil from even greater losses resulting from the climate crisis, warns a policy...
Desmatamento zero: possível e urgente
O desmatamento zero na Amazônia brasileira, legal e ilegal, é um movimento inexorável. A Amazônia, o Brasil e o mundo precisam dessa meta atingida. Neste documento, o Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) defende que o fim do desmatamento amazônico...
Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?
Halving carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 2020 could help bring the international community closer to the agreed goal of <2 degree increase in global average temperature change and is consistent with a target set last year by the governments,...
Tropical Forests: Conserving Climate and Culture
Climate change is occurring now in many places in the tropics. Avoiding large future changes will require empowerment of indigenous peoples and traditional communities as land stewards. Further, scientists must work with stakeholders and policymakers to understand...
GIS without GPS: new opportunities in technology and survey research to link people and place
This paper presents innovative ways to relate survey data to GIS maps, thereby making the connection of people and place more accessible for the research community. Based on data from rural areas in the Brazilian Amazon, we describe a successful effort to sample...
Changing Amazon biomass and the role of atmospheric CO2 concentration, climate, and land use
The Amazon tropical evergreen forest is an important component of the global carbon budget. Its forest floristic composition, structure, and function are sensitive to changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use. In this study biomass and productivity...
Desmatamento até 2014 conforme classificação fundiária
Mapa produzido pelo IPAM indica desmatamento na Amazônia até 2014 e classificação fundiária.