Prospects for land-use sustainability on the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon
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The Brazilian Amazon frontier shows how remarkable leadership can work towards increased agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability without new greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to initiatives among various stakeholders, including national and state government and agents, farmers, consumers, funding agencies and non-governmental organizations. Change has come both from bottom-up and top-down actions of these stakeholders, providing leadership, financing and monitoring to foster environmental sustainability and agricultural growth. Goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-cover and land-use change in Brazil are being achieved through a multi-tiered approach that includes policies to reduce deforestation and initiatives for forest restoration, as well as increased and diversified agricultural production, intensified ranching and innovations in agricultural management. Here, we address opportunities for the Brazilian Amazon in working towards low-carbon rural development and environmentally sustainable landscapes.
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The emergence of the EKC inverted U-shaped relationship between deforestation and socioeconomic development in the Brazilian Amazon is the result of a transition in environmental governance over the last decade to ensure a move toward land use sustainability.
“The emergence of the EKC inverted U-shaped relationship between deforestation and socioeconomic development in the Brazilian Amazon is the result of a transition in environmental governance that occurred over the last decade to ensure a move toward land use sustainability (Culas, 2007 andGalford et al., 2013).”
From Transition in environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon: emergence of a new pattern of socio-economic development and deforestation (2016) · cites this paper as Galford et al., 2013
The “Policies for reducing deforestation” section says Brazil adopted conservation policies and that effective enforcement can decrease Amazon deforestation. The Conclusions also describe top-down and bottom-up approaches to reducing deforestation. Our copy does not establish an inverted U-shaped relationship with socioeconomic development or attribute its emergence to a governance transition over the last decade (searched: environmental Kuznets curve and governance transition). (LLM, conf=0.87)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredHow the ABC plan will effectively be implemented remains a challenging question.
“But by now, how this ambitious program will effectively be implemented remains a challenging question ( Galford et al., 2013).”
From Transition in environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon: emergence of a new pattern of socio-economic development and deforestation (2016) · cites this paper as Galford et al., 2013
The Policy mechanisms to reduce agricultural emissions section describes Programa ABC’s ambitious goals and warns that agricultural intensification does not guarantee reduced deforestation. The Conclusions also identify barriers to applying some policies, especially for small farmers. These passages support a general concern about effective implementation, but the paper does not specifically frame implementation of Programa ABC as an unresolved question. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Galford, G. L., Soares-Filho, B., & Cerri, C. E. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Vermont (US)
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Corresponding author
- Galford, Gillian L.
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2013-06-05
- Volume
- 368
- Issue
- 1619
- Pages
- 20120171
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC3638435
- OpenAlex
- W2100549107
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 6.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ScholarWorks -A service of University of Vermont Libraries (University of Vermont) (submittedVersion)
- ScholarWorks -A service of University of Vermont Libraries (University of Vermont) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Keywords
- sustainable land use, agricultural frontier, Brazilian Amazon, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation reduction, forest restoration, agricultural productivity, agricultural diversification, environmental policy
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Brazil, Carbon, Conservation of Natural Resources, Nitrogen, Soil, Glycine max, Trees, Greenhouse Effect, Crops, Agricultural, Environmental Restoration and Remediation, Environmental Policy
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