Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is a powerful strategy for large-scale tropical forest recovery, and payment for ecosystem services (PES) is used to support FLR programs and projects on privately-owned land. In this article, we discuss the lessons learned from the Water Producer Project,…
The following research is based on the affirmation that urban sustainability in developing regions such as Latin America is an impossible goal to be totally achieved due to the circumstances of poverty informality slums corruption violence among others that exist there Therefore urban…
The report “Transforming the livestock sector through the sustainable development goals” examines the sector’s interaction with each of the SDGs, as well as the potential synergies, trade-offs, and complex interlinkages involved. The publication is intended to serve as a reference framework for…
Centuries of colonization of the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil have led its native vegetation cover to be reduced to only 11.7%. On the other hand, regional land changes have fostered natural forest regeneration, since the 1960s, in the region of Paraíba Valley. A fieldwork survey in rural…
The Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT) was developed out of a need to more efficiently and effectively communicate the importance of ecosystem services to decision makers.
IUCN’s collective experience working to increase ecological productivity and improve human well-being…
Hoje, uma porção do Vale do Guapiaçu, é ocupada por uma série de comunidades assentadas pelo Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA) ou via crédito fundiário pela Reforma Agrária de Mercado . Ao longo do tempo, foram diversos os grupos sociais que ocuparam a região e os…
Se analiza si la deforestación en la región amazónica es un caso típico de fallo del mercado. Se calcula el costo de oportunidad de actividades económicas que contribuyen a la deforestación, comparado con el costo de los usos que dejan intactos a los bosques. Respecto a los recursos ambientales…
The article discusses whether deforestation in the Amazonian region should be considered a typical case of market failure and computes the opportunity cost of economic activities that promote deforestation relative to uses that keep the forest intact. For environmental resources threatened by…
“Moro Num País Tropical, Abençoado por Deus ...”[1]
Sobre a Política Externa e de Meio Ambiente do Governo Jair Bolsonaro
Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves *
O recém-eleito Presidente, o Sr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, acaba de fechar a composição de seu ministério com a nomeação de…
Neste trabalho, abordam-se narrativas orais de moradores da Vila de Umarizal, município de Baião banhado pelo Rio Tocantins, e de moradores da Vila de Santa Isabel, no baixo Araguaia, município de Palestina do Pará. A análise tem como objetivo valorizar memórias de camponeses, ribeirinhos e…
Este texto analisa projetos governamentais de colonização em dois momentos distintos, mas que usaram estratégias semelhantes: final do século XIX na região Bragantina do Pará e década de 1970, acompanhando a abertura da Transamazônica. A …
Climate change affects poor and marginalized communities first and hardest. Particularly in cities, a lack of access to basic services, a long history of unsustainable urban development, and political exclusion render the urban poor one of the most vulnerable groups to climate induced natural…