A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecologica...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences 2013-06, Vol.368 (1619), p.1-11
Hauptverfasser: Gardner, Toby A., Ferreira, Joice, Barlow, Jos, Lees, Alexander C., Parry, Luke, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Berenguer, Erika, Abramovay, Ricardo, Aleixo, Alexandre, Andretti, Christian, Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., Araújo, Ivanei, de Ávila, Williams Souza, Bardgett, Richard D., Batistella, Mateus, Begotti, Rodrigo Anzolin, Beldini, Troy, de Blas, Driss Ezzine, Braga, Rodrigo Fagundes, de Lima Braga, Danielle, de Brito, Janaína Gomes, de Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, dos Santos, Fabiane Campos, de Oliveira, Vívian Campos, Cordeiro, Amanda Cardoso Nunes, Cardoso, Thiago Moreira, de Carvalho, Déborah Reis, Castelani, Sergio André, Chaul, Júlio Cézar Mário, Cerri, Carlos Eduardo, de Assis Costa, Francisco, da Costa, Carla Daniele Furtado, Coudel, Emilie, Coutinho, Alexandre Camargo, Cunha, Dênis, D'Antona, Álvaro, Dezincourt, Joelma, Dias-Silva, Karina, Durigan, Mariana, Esquerdo, Júlio César Dalla Mora, Feres, José, de Barros Ferraz, Silvio Frosini, de Melo Ferreira, Amanda Estefânia, Fiorini, Ana Carolina, da Silva, Lenise Vargas Flores, Frazão, Fábio Soares, Garrett, Rachel, dos Santos Gomes, Alessandra, da Silva Gonçalves, Karoline, Guerrero, José Benito, Hamada, Neusa, Hughes, Robert M., Igliori, Danilo Carmago, da Conceição Jesus, Ederson, Juen, Leandro, Junior, Miércio, de Oliveira Junior, José Max Barbosa, de Oliveira Junior, Raimundo Cosme, Junior, Carlos Souza, Kaufmann, Phil, Korasaki, Vanesca, Leal, Cecília Gontijo, Leitão, Rafael, Lima, Natália, de Fátima Lopes Almeida, Maria, Lourival, Reinaldo, Louzada, Júlio, Mac Nally, Ralph, Marchand, Sébastien, Maués, Márcia Motta, Moreira, Fátima M. S., Morsello, Carla, Moura, Nárgila, Nessimian, Jorge, Nunes, Sâmia, Oliveira, Victor Hugo Fonseca, Pardini, Renata, Pereira, Heloisa Correia, Pompeu, Paulo Santos, Ribas, Carla Rodrigues, Rossetti, Felipe, Schmidt, Fernando Augusto, da Silva, Rodrigo, da Silva, Regina Célia Viana Martins, da Silva, Thiago Fonseca Morello Ramalho, Silveira, Juliana, Siqueira, João Victor, de Carvalho, Teotônio Soares, Solar, Ricardo R. C, Tancredi, Nicola Savério Holanda, Thomson, James R., Torres, Patrícia Carignano, Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Zagury, Veiga, Ruan Carlo Stulpen, Venturieri, Adriano, Viana, Cecília, Weinhold, Diana, Zanetti, Ronald, Zuanon, Jansen
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Sprache:eng
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Ecological sustainability
Ecology
Ecoregions
Environmental assessment
Forest ecology
Human ecology
Socioeconomics
Sustainability science
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
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Zusammenfassung:Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the collection of synchronized and co-located ecological and socioeconomic data across broad gradients of past and present human use; (ii) a nested sampling design to aid comparison of ecological and socioeconomic conditions associated with different land uses across local, landscape and regional scales; and (iii) a strong engagement with a wide variety of actors and non-research institutions. Here, we elaborate on these key features, and identify the ways in which RAS can help in highlighting those problems in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the tropics. We also discuss some of the practical lessons, limitations and realities faced during the development of the RAS initiative so far.
ISSN:0962-8436