Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-797-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-797-2020
Research article
 | 
24 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2020

Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals

Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez, Rhys Manners, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Ana M. Tarquis, Lucieta G. Martorano, and Marisol Toledo

Related authors

Irrigation efficiency and water-policy implications for river basin resilience
C. A. Scott, S. Vicuña, I. Blanco-Gutiérrez, F. Meza, and C. Varela-Ortega
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 1339–1348, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1339-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1339-2014, 2014

Related subject area

Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies, Socioeconomic and Management Aspects
Development of a regionally consistent and fully probabilistic earthquake risk model for Central Asia
Mario A. Salgado-Gálvez, Mario Ordaz, Benjamín Huerta, Osvaldo Garay, Carlos Avelar, Ettore Fagà, Mohsen Kohrangi, Paola Ceresa, Georgios Triantafyllou, and Ulugbek T. Begaliev
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3851–3868, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3851-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3851-2024, 2024
Short summary
Critical infrastructure resilience: a guide for building indicator systems based on a multi-criteria framework with a focus on implementable actions
Zhuyu Yang, Bruno Barroca, Ahmed Mebarki, Katia Laffréchine, Hélène Dolidon, and Lionel Lilas
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3723–3753, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3723-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3723-2024, 2024
Short summary
Where to start with climate-smart forest management? Climatic risk for forest-based mitigation
Natalie Piazza, Luca Malanchini, Edoardo Nevola, and Giorgio Vacchiano
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3579–3595, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3579-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3579-2024, 2024
Short summary
Dynamic response of pile–slab retaining wall structure under rockfall impact
Peng Zou, Gang Luo, Yuzhang Bi, and Hanhua Xu
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3497–3517, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3497-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3497-2024, 2024
Short summary
Urban growth and spatial segregation increase disaster risk: lessons learned from the 2023 disaster on the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil
Cassiano Bastos Moroz and Annegret H. Thieken
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3299–3314, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3299-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3299-2024, 2024
Short summary

Cited articles

Albornoz, M., Cronkleton, P., and Toro, M.: Estudio regional Guarayos: Historia de la configuración de un territorio en conflicto, CEDLA and CIFOR, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2008. 
Assunção, J., Bragança, A., and Hemsely, P.: High productivity agricultural techniques in Brazil: Adoption barriers and potential solutions, Technical paper, Climate Policy Initiative, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, 2013. 
Axelrod, R. (Ed.): Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 422 pp., 1976. 
Bicalho, A. M. S. M. and Hoefle, S. W.: Conservation units, environmental services and frontier peasants in the Central Amazon: Multi-functionality, juxtaposition or conflict?, in: Climate change, culture, and economics: Anthropological investigations (Research in economic anthropology, Volume 35), edited by: Wood, D. C., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 65–105, https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120150000035004, 2015. 
Brondizio, E. S. and Moran, E. F.: Human dimension of climate change: The vulnerability of small farmers in the Amazon, Philos T. Roy. Soc. B, 363, 1803–1809, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0025, 2008. 
Download
Short summary
The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed, resulting in negative ecological and social impacts. We explore how stakeholders perceive the causes of the Amazon's degradation in Bolivia and Brazil and develop a series of scenarios to help strengthen the balance between human development and environmental conservation. The results suggest that the application of governance and well-integrated technical and social reform strategies encourages positive regional changes even under climate change.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint