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A social-ecological database to advance research on infrastructure development impacts in the Brazilian Amazon

Recognized as one of the world’s most vital natural and cultural resources, the Amazon faces a wide variety of threats from natural resource and infrastructure development. Within this context, rigorous scientific study of the region’s complex social-ecological system is critical to inform and direc...

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Autores principales: Tucker Lima, Joanna M., Valle, Denis, Moretto, Evandro Mateus, Pulice, Sergio Mantovani Paiva, Zuca, Nadia Lucia, Roquetti, Daniel Rondinelli, Beduschi, Liviam Elizabeth Cordeiro, Praia, Amanda Salles, Okamoto, Claudia Parucce Franco, da Silva Carvalhaes, Vinicius Leite, Branco, Evandro Albiach, Barbezani, Bruna, Labandera, Emily, Timpe, Kelsie, Kaplan, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5004584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27575915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.71
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Sumario:Recognized as one of the world’s most vital natural and cultural resources, the Amazon faces a wide variety of threats from natural resource and infrastructure development. Within this context, rigorous scientific study of the region’s complex social-ecological system is critical to inform and direct decision-making toward more sustainable environmental and social outcomes. Given the Amazon’s tightly linked social and ecological components and the scope of potential development impacts, effective study of this system requires an easily accessible resource that provides a broad and reliable data baseline. This paper brings together multiple datasets from diverse disciplines (including human health, socio-economics, environment, hydrology, and energy) to provide investigators with a variety of baseline data to explore the multiple long-term effects of infrastructure development in the Brazilian Amazon.