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A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

2013; Royal Society; Volume: 368; Issue: 1619 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rstb.2012.0166

1471-2970

Toby Gardner, Joice Ferreira, Jos Barlow, Alexander Charles Lees, Luke Parry, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Érika Berenguer, Ricardo Abramovay, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Christian Borges Andretti, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Ivanei S. Araujo, Williams Souza de Ávila, Richard D. Bardgett, Mateus Batistella, Rodrigo Anzolin Begotti, Troy Patrick Beldini, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Rodrigo Fagundes Braga, Danielle de Lima Braga, Janaína Gomes de Brito, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Fabiane Campos dos Santos, Vívian Campos de Oliveira, Amanda Cardoso Nunes Cordeiro, Thiago Moreira Cardoso, Débora Reis de Carvalho, Sergio André Castelani, Júlio Cézar Mário Chaul, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, Francisco de Assis Costa, Carla Daniele Furtado da Costa, Émilie Coudel, A. C. Coutinho, Dênis Antônio da Cunha, Álvaro de Oliveira D’Antona, Joelma Dezincourt, Karina Dias‐Silva, Mariana Durigan, Júlio César, José Gustavo Feres, Sílvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz, Amanda Estefânia de Melo Ferreira, Ana Carolina Oliveira Fiorini, Lenise Vargas Flôres da Silva, Fábio Frazão, Rachael Garrett, Alessandra dos Santos Gomes, Karoline da Silva Gonçalves, José Benito Guerrero, Neusa Hamada, Robert M. Hughes, Danilo Carmago Igliori, Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Leandro Juen, Miércio Júnior, José Max Barbosa de Oliveira, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira, Carlos Souza, P.R. Kaufmann, Vanesca Korasaki, Cecília Gontijo Leal, Rafael P. Leitão, Natália Lima, Maria de Fátima Lopes Almeida, Reinaldo Lourival, Júlio Louzada, Ralph Mac Nally, Sébastien Marchand, M. M. Maués, Fátima Maria de Souza Moreira, Carla Morsello, Nárgila Moura, Jorge Luiz Nessimian, Sâmia Nunes, Victor Hugo Fonseca Oliveira, Renata Pardini, Heloisa Correia Pereira, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Carla R. Ribas, Felipe Rossetti, Fernando Augusto Schmidt, Rodrigo da Silva, Regina Célia Viana Martins da Silva, Thiago Fonseca Morello Ramalho da Silva, Juliana M. Silveira, João Victor Siqueira, Teotônio Soares de Carvalho, Ricardo Solar, Nicola Savério Holanda Tancredi, James R. Thomson, Patrícia Carignano Torres, Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello, Ruan Carlo Stülpen Veiga, Adriano Venturieri, Cecília Viana, Diana Weinhold, Ronald Zanetti, Jansen Zuanon,

Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and ecological dimensions of land-use sustainability in eastern Brazilian Amazonia. The research approach adopted by RAS offers three advantages for addressing land-use sustainability problems: (i) the collection of synchronized and co-located ecological and socioeconomic data across broad gradients of past and present human use; (ii) a nested sampling design to aid comparison of ecological and socioeconomic conditions associated with different land uses across local, landscape and regional scales; and (iii) a strong engagement with a wide variety of actors and non-research institutions. Here, we elaborate on these key features, and identify the ways in which RAS can help in highlighting those problems in most urgent need of attention, and in guiding improvements in land-use sustainability in Amazonia and elsewhere in the tropics. We also discuss some of the practical lessons, limitations and realities faced during the development of the RAS initiative so far.