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

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dc.contributorIRENE BLANCO-GUTIÉRREZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
dc.contributorRHYS MANNERS, IITA
dc.contributorCONSUELO VARELA-ORTEGA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
dc.contributorANA M. TARQUIS, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
dc.contributorLUCIETA GUERREIRO MARTORANO, CPATU
dc.contributorMARISOL TOLEDO, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado – Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno.
dc.creatorBLANCO-GUTIÉRREZ, I.
dc.creatorMANNERS, R.
dc.creatorVARELA-ORTEGA, C.
dc.creatorTARQUIS, A. M.
dc.creatorMARTORANO, L. G.
dc.creatorTOLEDO, M.
dc.date2023-12-06T20:11:30Z
dc.date2023-12-06T20:11:30Z
dc.date2023-12-06
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-30T23:53:17Z
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.identifierNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, v. 20, n. 3, p. 797-813, 2020.
dc.identifierhttp://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1159250
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-797-2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/392569
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.subjectFronteira agroflorestal
dc.subjectDesenvolvimento Sustentável
dc.subjectAmazonia
dc.titleExamining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals.
dc.typeArtigo de periódico

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