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Toby A Gardner1, Joice Ferreira, Jos Barlow, Alexander C Lees, Luke Parry, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Erika Berenguer, Ricardo Abramovay, Alexandre Aleixo, Christian Andretti, Luiz E O C Aragão, Ivanei Araújo, Williams Souza de Ávila, Richard D Bardgett, Mateus Batistella, Rodrigo Anzolin Begotti, Troy Beldini, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Rodrigo Fagundes Braga, Danielle de Lima Braga, Janaína Gomes de Brito, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Fabiane Campos dos Santos, Vívian Campos de Oliveira, Amanda Cardoso Nunes Cordeiro, Thiago Moreira Cardoso, Déborah Reis de Carvalho, Sergio André Castelani, Júlio Cézar Mário Chaul, Carlos Eduardo Cerri, Francisco de Assis Costa, Carla Daniele Furtado da Costa, Emilie Coudel, Alexandre Camargo Coutinho, Dênis Cunha, Álvaro D'Antona, Joelma Dezincourt, Karina Dias-Silva, Mariana Durigan, Júlio César Dalla Mora Esquerdo, José Feres, Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz, Amanda Estefânia de Melo Ferreira, Ana Carolina Fiorini, Lenise Vargas Flores da Silva, Fábio Soares Frazão, Rachel Garrett, Alessandra dos Santos Gomes, Karoline da Silva Gonçalves, José Benito Guerrero, Neusa Hamada, Robert M Hughes, Danilo Carmago Igliori, Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Leandro Juen, Miércio Junior, José Max Barbosa de Oliveira Junior, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira Junior, Carlos Souza Junior, Phil Kaufmann, Vanesca Korasaki, Cecília Gontijo Leal, Rafael Leitão, Natália Lima, Maria de Fátima Lopes Almeida, Reinaldo Lourival, Júlio Louzada, Ralph Mac Nally, Sébastien Marchand, Márcia Motta Maués, Fátima M S Moreira, Carla Morsello, Nárgila Moura, Jorge Nessimian, Sâmia Nunes, Victor Hugo Fonseca Oliveira, Renata Pardini, Heloisa Correia Pereira, Paulo Santos Pompeu, Carla Rodrigues Ribas, Felipe Rossetti, Fernando Augusto Schmidt, Rodrigo da Silva, Regina Célia Viana Martins da Silva, Thiago Fonseca Morello Ramalho da Silva, Juliana Silveira, João Victor Siqueira, Teotônio Soares de Carvalho, Ricardo R C Solar, Nicola Savério Holanda Tancredi, James R Thomson, Patrícia Carignano Torres, Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello, Ruan Carlo Stulpen Veiga, Adriano Venturieri, Cecília Viana, Diana Weinhold, Ronald Zanetti, Jansen Zuanon.
Abstract
Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the collection of synchronized and co-located ecological and socioeconomic data across broad gradients of past and present human use; (ii) a nested sampling design to aid comparison of ecological and socioeconomic conditions associated with different land uses across local, landscape and regional scales; and (iii) a strong engagement with a wide variety of actors and non-research institutions. Here, we elaborate on these key features, and identify the ways in which RAS can help in highlighting those problems in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the tropics. We also discuss some of the practical lessons, limitations and realities faced during the development of the RAS initiative so far.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23610172 PMCID： PMC3638432 DOI： 10.1098/rstb.2012.0166
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci ISSN： 0962-8436 Impact factor: 6.237