Título:	Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals.
Autoria:	BLANCO-GUTIÉRREZ, I. MANNERS, R. VARELA-ORTEGA, C. TARQUIS, A. M. MARTORANO, L. G. TOLEDO, M.
Afiliação:	IRENE BLANCO-GUTIÉRREZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid RHYS MANNERS, IITA CONSUELO VARELA-ORTEGA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ANA M. TARQUIS, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid LUCIETA GUERREIRO MARTORANO, CPATU MARISOL TOLEDO, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado – Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno.
Ano de publicação:	2020
Referência:	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, v. 20, n. 3, p. 797-813, 2020.
Conteúdo:	The Amazon basin is the world's largest rainforest and the most biologically diverse place on Earth. Despite the critical importance of this region, Amazon forests continue inexorably to be degraded and deforested for various reasons, mainly a consequence of agricultural expansion. The development of novel policy strategies that provide balanced solutions, associating economic growth with environmental protection, is still challenging, largely because the perspective of those most affected - local stakeholders - is often ignored. Participatory fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) was implemented to examine stakeholder perceptions towards the sustainable development of two agricultural-forest frontier areas in the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon. A series of development scenarios were explored and applied to stakeholder-derived FCM, with climate change also analysed. Stakeholders in both regions perceived landscapes of socio-economic impoverishment and environmental degradation driven by governmental and institutional deficiencies. Under such abject conditions, governance and well-integrated social and technological strategies offered socio-economic development, environmental conservation, and resilience to climatic changes. The results suggest there are benefits of a new type of thinking for development strategies in the Amazon basin and that continued application of traditional development policies reduces the resilience of the Amazon to climate change, whilst limiting socio-economic development and environmental conservation.
Thesagro:	Desenvolvimento Sustentável
NAL Thesaurus:	Amazonia
Palavras-chave:	Fronteira agroflorestal
Digital Object Identifier:	https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-797-2020
Tipo do material:	Artigo de periódico
Acesso:	openAccess
Aparece nas coleções:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CPATU)