Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for
combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet …

Roads fragment landscapes and trigger human colonization and degradation of
ecosystems, to the detriment of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The planet's remaining …

The Brazil nut (the seeds of the rainforest tree Bertholletia excelsa) is the only globally
traded seed collected from the wild by forest-based harvesters across the Amazon basin …

The biodiversity hotspots are 35 biogeographical regions that have both exceptional
endemism and extreme threats to their vegetation integrity, and as such are global …

This study presents our efforts to automate the detection of unofficial roads (herein, roads) in
the Brazilian Amazon using artificial intelligence (AI). In this region, roads are built by …

Abstract The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure development in
human history. Given its scale of influence and infrastructure undertakings, it is set to bring …

The Amazon is the largest expanse of tropical rainforest globally and deforestation resulting
from land use changes poses a major concern for sustainable resource management …

This paper analyzes how the governance of non-renewable natural resources affects
different dimensions of human security in local sites of extraction. We show how the analysis …

Forests, through the regulation of regional water balances, provide a number of ecosystem
services, including water for agriculture, hydroelectric power generation, navigation …

Shifting cultivation has been shown to be the primary cause of land use change in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Traditionally, forested and fallow land are rotated in a …