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Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon

Some coupled land–climate models predict a dieback of Amazon forest during the twenty-first century due to climate change, but human land use in the region has already reduced the forest cover. The causation behind land use is complex, and includes economic, institutional, political and demographic...

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Autores principales: Perz, Stephen, Brilhante, Silvia, Brown, Foster, Caldas, Marcellus, Ikeda, Santos, Mendoza, Elsa, Overdevest, Christine, Reis, Vera, Reyes, Juan Fernando, Rojas, Daniel, Schmink, Marianne, Souza, Carlos, Walker, Robert
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Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18267915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0017
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author Perz, Stephen
Brilhante, Silvia
Brown, Foster
Caldas, Marcellus
Ikeda, Santos
Mendoza, Elsa
Overdevest, Christine
Reis, Vera
Reyes, Juan Fernando
Rojas, Daniel
Schmink, Marianne
Souza, Carlos
Walker, Robert
author_facet Perz, Stephen
Brilhante, Silvia
Brown, Foster
Caldas, Marcellus
Ikeda, Santos
Mendoza, Elsa
Overdevest, Christine
Reis, Vera
Reyes, Juan Fernando
Rojas, Daniel
Schmink, Marianne
Souza, Carlos
Walker, Robert
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description Some coupled land–climate models predict a dieback of Amazon forest during the twenty-first century due to climate change, but human land use in the region has already reduced the forest cover. The causation behind land use is complex, and includes economic, institutional, political and demographic factors. Pre-eminent among these factors is road building, which facilitates human access to natural resources that beget forest fragmentation. While official government road projects have received considerable attention, unofficial road building by interest groups is expanding more rapidly, especially where official roads are being paved, yielding highly fragmented forest mosaics. Effective governance of natural resources in the Amazon requires a combination of state oversight and community participation in a ‘hybrid’ model of governance. The MAP Initiative in the southwestern Amazon provides an example of an innovative hybrid approach to environmental governance. It embodies a polycentric structure that includes government agencies, NGOs, universities and communities in a planning process that links scientific data to public deliberations in order to mitigate the effects of new infrastructure and climate change.
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spelling pubmed-23759502008-05-15 Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon Perz, Stephen Brilhante, Silvia Brown, Foster Caldas, Marcellus Ikeda, Santos Mendoza, Elsa Overdevest, Christine Reis, Vera Reyes, Juan Fernando Rojas, Daniel Schmink, Marianne Souza, Carlos Walker, Robert Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Review Some coupled land–climate models predict a dieback of Amazon forest during the twenty-first century due to climate change, but human land use in the region has already reduced the forest cover. The causation behind land use is complex, and includes economic, institutional, political and demographic factors. Pre-eminent among these factors is road building, which facilitates human access to natural resources that beget forest fragmentation. While official government road projects have received considerable attention, unofficial road building by interest groups is expanding more rapidly, especially where official roads are being paved, yielding highly fragmented forest mosaics. Effective governance of natural resources in the Amazon requires a combination of state oversight and community participation in a ‘hybrid’ model of governance. The MAP Initiative in the southwestern Amazon provides an example of an innovative hybrid approach to environmental governance. It embodies a polycentric structure that includes government agencies, NGOs, universities and communities in a planning process that links scientific data to public deliberations in order to mitigate the effects of new infrastructure and climate change. The Royal Society 2008-02-11 2008-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2375950/ /pubmed/18267915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0017 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Royal Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Brilhante, Silvia
Brown, Foster
Caldas, Marcellus
Ikeda, Santos
Mendoza, Elsa
Overdevest, Christine
Reis, Vera
Reyes, Juan Fernando
Rojas, Daniel
Schmink, Marianne
Souza, Carlos
Walker, Robert
Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon
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title_sort road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the amazon
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18267915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0017
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