In recent years, discussions regarding scenarios methods for the Brazilian Amazon have
been mostly explored from the sole perspective of deforestation concerns. This paper …

Our aim with this paper is to present a novel approach for developing story lines and
scenarios by combining qualitative knowledge and quantitative data from different …

Extensive-style logging, ranching, and slash-and-burn agriculture are the principal activities
associated with the haphazard settlement of the Eastern Amazon. We analyze these …

This article presents a 21st Century agenda for Amazonian conservation. The agenda calls
for developing a system of refugia and a scientific methodology for predicting impacts of the …

Highlights•We discuss place-based actions by actors who have ownership in their
implementation.•Local or external ideas, struggles, policies, and opportunities serve as …

Jurisdictional approaches have become popular in international forums as promising
strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation and to guarantee …

In the Amazonian floodplains, the local populations living from agricultural activities and
fishing, have always coped natural variations, between flood and dry seasons. However, the …

Brazil has 109 million hectares of sustainable use reserves (SURs), most of them in
Amazonia. In practical terms, SURs are being created to meet several objectives, but this …

At the peak of Amazonian deforestation in the mid-2000s, a suite of initiatives to curb
deforestation was implemented, narrowing their scopes to particular agents, critical …

An important issue today is the compatibility of agricultural frontiers, which are driven by
economic objectives, with conservationist views. In the Amazon, family farmers are …