Background The conservation of the Amazon is necessary to mitigate two planetary crises:
climate change and the loss of biodiversity that threatens different species. The current …

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst
human development indicators in Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not …

Background The growth of the market for products derived from the açaí production chain,
and the problems of the accumulation of residues from the process, intensified the demand …

In the past twenty years, the bioeconomy has been increasingly recognized for its potential
to create value and its contribution to sustainable development. Although most of the world's …

The importance of the bioeconomy in the global context has become increasingly evident
and relevant in recent years. Due to Brazil's abundant environmental resource endowments …

AbstractFor thelasttwo decades, theAmazondevelopmentdebate hasbeentornbetween
attempts to reconcile two rather opposing views of land use: on one hand, a vision of setting …

The continuing destruction of the Amazonian forest, the largest remaining tropical forest
ecosystem, has massive social and environmental consequences for local populations, but …

After the murder of trade union leader Chico Mendes on December 22, 1988, plant
extractivism became the great Brazilian environmental idea to curb deforestation and …

The Science Panel for the Amazon is an unprecedented initiative convened under the
auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). The …

This paper analyzes the possibility of producing bio-fuel in the Amazon degraded lands. The
aim here is to combine environmental concerns with an improvement of local people well …