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Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin
2021; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 68; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7
ISSN1432-1009
AutoresFernando Mayer Pelicice, Ângelo Antônio Agostinho, Alberto Akama, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Valter M. Azevedo‐Santos, Marcus Vinícius Moreira Barbosa, Luis Maurício Bini, Marcelo Fulgêncio Guedes de Brito, Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro, Érica Pellegrini Caramaschi, Priscilla Carvalho, Rodrigo Assis de Carvalho, Leandro Castello, Davi Borges das Chagas, Carine C. Chamon, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Vanessa S. Daga, Murilo S. Dias, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho, Philip M. Fearnside, Wagner de Melo Ferreira, Diego Azevedo Zoccal Garcia, Tiago Kütter Krolow, Rodrigo Ferreira Krüger, Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Dilermando P. Lima-Júnior, Solange de Fátima Lólis, Fabyano Álvares Cardoso Lopes, Rafael Loyola, André Lincoln Barroso Magalhães, Adriana Malvásio, Paulo de Marco Júnior, Pedro Ribeiro Martins, Rosana Mazzoni, João Carlos Nabout, Mário Luís Orsi, André Andrian Padial, Hasley Rodrigo Pereira, Thiago Nilton Alves Pereira, Phamela Bernardes Perônico, Miguel Petrere, Renato Torres Pinheiro, Etiene Fabbrin Pires, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Thiago Costa Gonçalves Portelinha, Edson Eyji Sano, Vagner Leonardo Macêdo dos Santos, Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro, Idelina Gomes da Silva, Lucas Barbosa e Souza, Francisco Leonardo Tejerina‐Garro, Mariana Pires de Campos Telles, Fabrício Barreto Teresa, Sidinei Magela Thomaz, Lívia Helena Tonella, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule, Jansen Zuanon,
Tópico(s)Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
ResumoThe Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental conditions. These changes are jeopardizing the basin's biodiversity and ecosystem services. Threats are escalating as poor environmental policies continue to be formulated, such as environmentally unsustainable hydropower plants, large-scale agriculture for commodity production, and aquaculture with non-native fish. If the current model persists, it will deepen the environmental crisis in the basin, compromising broad conservation goals and social development in the long term. Better policies will require thought and planning to minimize growing threats and ensure the basin's sustainability for future generations.
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