International policy commitments highlight the importance of balancing agricultural development with conservation of tropical forest landscapes for climate change mitigation (UNFCCC, 2015), biodiversity conservation (CBD, 2010), and generally sustainable development trajectories (UN, 2015). The Amazon basin has over the last decades become one of the major producer and exporter regions of agricultural commodities (Macedo et al., 2012) at the expense of rampant deforestation (Nepstad et al., 2014; Soares-Filho et al., 2006).
Deforestation scenarios in the area of influence of the Tapajós Hydropower Complex
Deforestation scenarios in the area of influence of the Tapajós Hydropower Complex
A summary of an assessment commissioned by WWF and developed by IPAM aimed to provide a
better understanding of the occupation dynamics in the Tapajós basin region and the effects of the proposed Tapajós Hydropower Complex (in English).