Amazon

Tropical forests are at the front line of sustainable development, where critical trade-offs need to be negotiated between climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation, food production and economic development. SEI research work on tropical forests ranges from ecological research to groundbreaking data-driven transparency tools linking impacts of deforestation to global companies and consumer markets.

64 results / 7 of 8 pages

Rio de Janeiro

Brazil’s environmental leadership at risk

Journal article

7 November 2014 / About Forests, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

Palm leaf in sun

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene

Journal article

17 October 2014 / About Forests

Parrots

Actor-specific contributions to the deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon

Journal article

13 October 2014 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Hummingbird

Road networks predict human influence on Amazonian bird communities

Journal article

1 October 2014 / About Ecosystems and Forests

Amazon, Brazil

Challenges of Governing Second-Growth Forests: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazonian State of Pará

Journal article

23 July 2014 / About Forests and Public policy

Rainforest

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

Journal article

28 May 2014 / About Forests

Small green leafs

Two hundred years of local avian extinctions in Eastern Amazonia

Journal article

2 May 2014 / About Forests

Brazil Amazon

Resolving conservation-development trade-offs in the Brazilian Amazon and identifying ways to improve the effectiveness of sustainability science

Project / Assess conservation-development trade-offs and realistic policy and management scenarios to improve opportunities in the Amazon.

2014 - 2016 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use and Sustainable lifestyles

Jungel

From large to small: Reorienting rural development policies in response to climate change, food security and poverty

Journal article

1 November 2013 / About Adaptation, Business, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Participation

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