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Review
. 2008 May 27;363(1498):1911-6.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.0023.

Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty: past, present and future environmental governance

Emily Boyd  1
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Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty: past, present and future environmental governance

Emily Boyd. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. .

Abstract

One of the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century is the continued rapid deforestation of Amazonia. The 2005 dieback crisis emphasizes the unprecedented challenges facing Brazil. The examination of past and present institutions for ecosystem management, in Amazonia, shows structural barriers across public, private and community arrangements. The adaptive governance concept helps to understand why these institutions are failing to deliver sustainable futures. In looking forward, it is encouraging to see that important networks of knowledge and a number of novel initiatives are emerging in Brazil. These new arrangements are novel in the way that they seem to be adaptive and navigate structures in the hope of overcoming insurmountable drivers of deforestation.

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