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. 2023 Feb 2;10(1):65.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-01962-1.

Trajetorias: a dataset of environmental, epidemiological, and economic indicators for the Brazilian Amazon

Ana C Rorato #  1 , Ana Paula Dal'Asta #  2 , Raquel Martins Lana #  3 , Ricardo B N Dos Santos #  4 , Maria Isabel S Escada #  2 , Camila M Vogt  5 , Tatiana Campos Neves  6 , Milton Barbosa  7 , Cecilia S Andreazzi  8   9 , Izabel C Dos Reis  10 , Danilo A Fernandes  4 , Mônica da Silva-Nunes  11 , Anielli R de Souza  2 , Antonio M V Monteiro  2 , Claudia T Codeço  6
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Trajetorias: a dataset of environmental, epidemiological, and economic indicators for the Brazilian Amazon

Ana C Rorato et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

The Trajetorias dataset is a harmonized set of environmental, epidemiological, and poverty indicators for all municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA). This dataset is the result of a scientific synthesis research initiative conducted by scientists from several natural and social sciences fields, consolidating multidisciplinary indicators into a coherent dataset for integrated and interdisciplinary studies of the Brazilian Amazon. The dataset allows the investigation of the association between the Amazonian agrarian systems and their impacts on environmental and epidemiological changes, furthermore enhancing the possibilities for understanding, in a more integrated and consistent way, the scenarios that affect the Amazonian biome and its inhabitants.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

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Fig. 1
The Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) houses the whole Brazilian Amazon biome (predominantly composed of tropical forests), 20% of the Cerrado biome (with a predominance of savannah vegetation) and approximately 40% of the Pantanal biome (the largest continuous wetland in the world), in the state of Mato Grosso.
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Fig. 2
The Trajetorias dataset indicators are computed for two periods, for each municipality, as shown in the diagram. The reference point of each period is the date of agrarian census, from which it is computed the rural techno-productive trajectory. The database harmonizes epidemiological, environmental and economic indicators, as described in the main text.
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Fig. 3
A subset of environmental indicators from the Trajetorias dataset allows the comparison of the rate of deforestation, and the expansion of pasture between 2006 and 2016/2017, the expansion of the road network, and the distribution of negative precipitation anomalies in the Brazilian Legal Amazon region.
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Fig. 4
A subset of epidemiological indicators from the Trajetorias dataset showing the incidence rate of malaria by P. vivax and P. falciparum, and dengue in the Brazilian Legal Amazon region.
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Fig. 5
A subset of socio-economic indicators from the Trajetorias dataset showing the distribution of the rural and urban population in the Brazilian Legal Amazon region, 2010. The standardized indices show the deviation of the poverty indices in rural and urban populations, in relation to the overall mean of the region. A = multidimension poverty intensity; H = multidimension poverty incidence, MPI = AxH = multidimension poverty index.
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