Esse artigo se propõe pensar de que forma pessoas, “almas” e “caboclos”, em suas diversas modulações, convivem e povoam o espaço de uma ilha situada no trecho submédio do rio São Francisco, no Brasil, a Ilha do Massangano. Por viverem numa ilha em meio ao semiárido nordestino, seus habitantes articulam a presença desses seres à força dos regimes das águas do rio e sua relação com o sem-fim da “terra firme”, atualizado ali no bioma da caatinga. Em oposição à terra firme, a ilha ela própria anda, movida pela força das correntezas do rio.

A Amazônia brasileira é a região do planeta com maior número de comunidades nativas classificadas como isoladas. No Brasil de hoje, como nos demais países da região amazônica, assiste-se a uma proliferação crescente de relatos e imagens que dão notícia de povos indígenas em situação de isolamento. A Funai conta 114 registros, 28 deles já confirmados; a maioria se concentra nas regiões de frontei- ra com outros países amazônicos.

The search for a sustainable land management has become a universal issue. It is especially necessary to discuss sustainable land management and to secure a site with enough feed supply to improve the lives of the farmers in the Ethiopian Highlands.

Discussions on the relationships between forests and water have primarily focused on the biophysical nature of these relationships. However, as issues such as land degradation affect the ability of forests to provide water-related ecosystem services resulting in water insecurity, the human dimension of the forest–water nexus has become more evident. This has resulted in the identification of the forest–water nexus as an issue that requires urgent recognition within major international policy processes and where knowledge gaps on the global state of the nexus exist.

The forest landscapes of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are changing dramatically, with a multitude of impacts from local to global levels. These changes invariably have their foundations in forest governance. The aim of this paper is to assess perceptions of key stakeholders regarding the state of forest governance in the countries of the GMS. The work is based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the perceptions of forest governance in the five GMS countries, involving 762 representatives from government, civil society, news media, and rural communities.

The United Nations adopted the Agenda 2030 with its core element, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in September 2015. In order to achieve these goals within the coming years, intense efforts are required by all political and societal actors. Although the first definitions of sustainable development referred to the forest sector, the question remains: what contribution can forestry make to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?