Current social-technical and political conditions threaten the integrity of the Amazon biome.
Overcoming these lock-ins requires structural transformations away from conventional …

Fake controversies have influenced policy making on health and environmental issues for
decades, resulting in major implementation setbacks worldwide. As a case study, in this …

This article analyzes the metadiscourse of bioeconomy and the ways in which bioeconomy
is gaining new meanings in Brazil. We argue that the currently unfolding framing of …

Conserving tropical forests is crucial for the environment and future of our climate. Tropical
rainforests worldwide, including the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA), offer exceptional …

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is related to the use of fire to remove natural
vegetation and install crop cultures or pastures. In this study, we evaluated the relation …

Due to human activities, most natural ecosystems of the world have disappeared and the
rest are threatened. At a global scale, 40% of the remaining forests occur in Indigenous …

The choice of energy systems and their design in and around the Amazon biome implicate
the future status of all of the following–climate, the ecological systems, and the cultural …

Illegal logging remains widespread across the tropics, leading to extensive forest
degradation and trade in illegal timber products. By adapting environmentally extended …

Brazilians have lived for many years under governments with discourse proclaiming the
need to occupy and develop the Amazon to integrate this vast territory into the rest of the …

Across the globe, the legal land rights and tenure of many Indigenous peoples are yet to be
recognized. A growing body of research demonstrates that tenure of Indigenous lands …