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Conservation and land-use governance in Brazil: Domestic and international interconnectivity Open

Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos, Rayssa Yuki Murakami Lima, Paulo Moutinho, Heiner von Luepke · 2025

Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil Open

André L. Guimarães, Álvaro Batista, Yuri Telles, Anna Carolina Fornero Aguiar, Fábio Rúbio Scarano , et al. · 2025

While the world urgently hopes to reduce GHG emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation, the Brazilian Amazon offshore potentially becomes a new frontier for oil companies. The expected impact of oil royalties on the regional GDP is a p…

Protecting the Brazilian Cerrado: conservation strategies and the EUDR’s emphasis Open

Patrícia Pinho, Olivia Zerbini Benin, Andrea Garcia, Isabel Castro, Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini , et al. · 2025

Escalating Climate Disasters in the Amazon (2006-2022): Vulnerabilities and Compound Risks Open

Patrícia Pinho, Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini, Martha Fellows, Letícia Palazzi Perez, Ane Alencar , et al. · 2024

The Amazon, a global biodiversity hotspot and home to ~30 million inhabitants, including numerous Indigenous ethnies, is increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts. Despite global evidence of climate-related disasters, the Brazilian Amazon…

Solving the Brazilian Amazon land use & land cover puzzle: four steps to ensuring conservation, justice, and sustainable development. Open

Marcelo C. C. Stabile, Caroline Salomão, Pedro Henrique Enricone Coimbra, André L. Guimarães, Andrea Garcia , et al. · 2024

Brazil emerged as an agricultural powerhouse in the last four decades, producing 33% of the world’s soybeans and 14% of its beef. Historically, much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. A growing body of work su…

Projetos de infraestrutura na Amazônia: a quem devem beneficiar? Open

Philip M. Fearnside, Laurent Troost, Paulo Moutinho · 2023

Author Correction: Untitled public forestlands threaten Amazon conservation Open

Paulo Moutinho, Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos · 2023

Untitled public forestlands threaten Amazon conservation Open

Paulo Moutinho, Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos · 2023

Policy Brief: El rol de los Pueblos Indígenas Amazónicos en la lucha contra la crisis climática Open

Paulo Moutinho, Isabella Leite Lucas, André Baniwa, Gregorio Mirabal, Carmen Josse , et al. · 2022

Territorios indígenas (ITs, en sus siglas en inglés) en la Amazonia protegen aproximadamente 24,GtC sobre el suelo, funcionan como barreras significativas contra la deforestación y la degradación del bosque, y sirven como una defensa impor…

Policy Brief: O Papel dos Povos Indígenas Amazônicos na Luta Contra as Mudanças Climáticas Open

Paulo Moutinho, Isabella Leite Lucas, André Baniwa, Gregorio Mirabal, Carmen Josse , et al. · 2022

Territórios Indígenas (TIs) na Amazônia protegem aproximadamente 24.5 gigatoneladas de carbono (GtC) acima do solo, atuam como barreiras significativas contra o desmatamento e a degradação florestal, e funcionam como importantes amortecedo…

Policy Brief: The role of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples in fighting the climate crisis Open

Paulo Moutinho, Isabella Leite Lucas, André Baniwa, Gregorio Mirabel, Carmen Josse , et al. · 2022

Indigenous territories (ITs) in the Amazon protect approximately 24.5 GtC aboveground, act as significant barriers to deforestation and forest degradation, and serve as an important buffer against climate change. Demarcated ITs have signif…

Capítulo 32: Hitos y Desafíos en la Construcción y Expansión de una Educación Intercultural Participativa en la Amazonía Open

Sandra Frieri, Fernanda Bortolotto, Gloria Amparo Rivera, André Fernando Baniwa, Bernardo Herrera , et al. · 2022

En este capítulo se destacan algunas experiencias significativas de la región, recogidas de diferentes autores, que se han desarrollado para construir y ampliar la educación intercultural participativa y dialógica, a partir de la problemat…

Capítulo 30: La Nueva Bioeconomía en la Amazonía: Oportunidades y desafíos para bosques en pie y ríos cauda-losos sanos Open

Ricardo Abramovay, Joice Ferreira, Francisco de Assis Costa, Marco Ehrlich, Ana Margarida Castro Euler , et al. · 2022

Este capítulo allana el camino para una nueva visión de una bioeconomía de bosques en pie y ríos que fluyen saludablemente. Primero, presenta la bioeconomía como un campo reciente sin una definición unificada en la literatura internacional…

Capítulo 34: Impulsando las relaciones entre la selva amazónica y las ciudades globalizadas Open

David M. Lapola, Belen Paez, Sandra Costa, Roberto Donato da Silva Júnior, Daniela M. Peluso , et al. · 2022

Al brindar una revisión breve y no autorizada de las relaciones físicas y culturales entre las áreas rural/forestal y urbana en la Amazonía, identificamos varios aspectos a mejorar, como subsidiar la residencia de largo plazo de los profes…

A gestão ambiental e territorial de Terras Indígenas da Amazônia brasileira: uma questão climática Open

Martha Fellows Dourado, Carlos de Almeida Nobrega, Fernanda Bortolotto, Ane Alencar, Paulo Moutinho · 2022

As Terras Indígenas protegem uma grande proporção da Amazônia brasileira, contribuindo para a redução do desmatamento e manutenção do equilíbrio climático da região. Este papel ecológico é consequência direta da gestão ambiental e territor…

Slowing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Avoiding Legal Deforestation by Compensating Farmers and Ranchers Open

Marcelo C. C. Stabile, Andrea Garcia, Caroline S. C. Salomão, Glenn Bush, André L. Guimarães , et al. · 2022

The Amazon Forest is an unquestionable cradle of planetary biological diversity and plays a fundamental role in regional and global climate change regulation. Annual deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have gone up since 2012, pres…

Florestas Públicas Não Destinadas Open

Paulo Moutinho, Ane Alencar, Marcelo C. C. Stabile, Martha Fellows, Caroline S. C. Salomão , et al. · 2022

Beyond Deforestation: Carbon Emissions From Land Grabbing and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon Open

Sanne Kruid, Márcia N. Macedo, Seth R. Gorelik, Wayne Walker, Paulo Moutinho , et al. · 2021

Carbon losses from forest degradation and disturbances are significant and growing sources of emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. Between 2003 and 2019, degradation and disturbance accounted for 44% of forest carbon losses in the region, co…

Challenges of Sharing REDD+ Benefits in the Amazon Region Open

Raissa Guerra, Paulo Moutinho · 2020

The success of jurisdictional reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) initiatives is entirely dependent on how the REDD+ benefits are distributed among the stakeholders seeking to preserve the native vegetation…

Lawless land in no man’s land: The undesignated public forests in the Brazilian Amazon Open

Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos, Paulo Moutinho, Vera Laísa da Silva Arruda, Marcelo C. C. Stabile, Ane Alencar , et al. · 2020

The Brazilian Amazon has 49.8 million hectares (Mha) of public forestlands not allocated by the federal or state governments to a specific tenure status: the so called undesignated public forests (UPF). Historically, these public forests h…

The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas Open

Wayne Walker, Seth R. Gorelik, Alessandro Baccini, José Aragón-Osejo, Carmen Josse , et al. · 2020

Maintaining the abundance of carbon stored aboveground in Amazon forests is central to any comprehensive climate stabilization strategy. Growing evidence points to indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) as buffers against large-s…

Brazilian Amazon gold: indigenous land rights under risk Open

Sara Villén‐Pérez, Paulo Moutinho, Caroline Corrêa Nóbrega, Paulo de Marco Júnior · 2020

Brazilian indigenous lands prevent the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest while protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples. However, they are at risk because they overlap with large areas of registered interest for mining. Indige…

The Role of Amazon Indigenous Territories and Protected Natural Areas in Region-Wide Gains and Losses of Aboveground Carbon (2003-2016) Open

Wayne Walker, Seth R. Gorelik, Alessandro Baccini, José Aragón-Osejo, Carmen Josse , et al. · 2019

Maintaining the abundance of carbon stored aboveground in Amazon forests is central to any comprehensive strategy for stabilizing global climate. Growing evidence points to the contribution that Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP…

Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation Open

Marcelo C. C. Stabile, André L. Guimarães, Daniel Silva, Vivian Ribeiro, Márcia N. Macedo , et al. · 2019

Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world's soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and cropland…

Comment on the Article Published in Forest by Maria Fernanda Gebara and Arun Agrawal, Forests 2017, 8, 66 Open

Erika de Paula Pedro Pinto, Paulo Moutinho, Osvaldo Stella · 2017

The article entitled “Beyond Rewards and Punishments in the Brazilian Amazon: Practical Implications of the REDD+ Discourse” [1], published in the journal “Forests”, provides an interesting analysis for evaluating the performance of paymen…

The Rights and Wrongs of Brazil's Forest Monitoring Systems Open

Raoni Rajão, Paulo Moutinho, Laura Cristina Eiras Coelho Soares · 2017

The article "Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?" published recently in Conservation Letters offers a detailed analysis of the limits of PRODES, Brazil's best known system for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Whi…

Corrigendum: Achieving zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: What is missing? Open

Paulo Moutinho, Raissa Guerra, Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos · 2016

A GESTÃO AMBIENTAL E TERRITORIAL DE TERRAS INDÍGENAS DA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA: UMA QUESTÃO CLIMÁTICA Open

Martha Fellows Dourado, Carlos de Almeida Nobrega, Fernanda Bortolotto, Ane Alencar, Paulo Moutinho · 2016

As Terras Indígenas protegem uma grande proporção da Amazônia brasileira, contribuindo para a redução do desmatamento e manutenção do equilíbrio climático da região. Este papel ecológico é consequência direta da gestão ambiental e territor…

Achieving zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: What is missing? Open

Paulo Moutinho, Raissa Guerra, Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos · 2016

Amazon deforestation causes severe climatic and ecological disruptions, with negative consequences for the livelihood of forest-dependent peoples. To avoid further disruptions, Brazil will need to take bold steps to eliminate both illegal …

Appendix A. Annual percentage mortality rates and 95% confidence intervals for paired and unpaired species in wet and dry plots, in the Tapajós National Forest, east-central Brazilian Amazon. Open

Daniel C. Nepstad, Ingrid Tohver, David Ray, Paulo Moutinho, Georgina Cardinot · 2016

Annual percentage mortality rates and 95% confidence intervals for paired and unpaired species in wet and dry plots, in the Tapajós National Forest, east-central Brazilian Amazon.

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