Land Use Change in Amazonia: Institutional Analysis and Modelling at multiple temporal and spatial scales
Investigator(s)
Principal investigator:
Gilberto Cāmara, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brasil
E-mail: gilberto.camara(at)inpe.br
Abstract
This project aims to understand and model the social processes that contribute to large-scale deforestation in Amazonia. The project incorporates comparative case studies, each organized along four interrelated lines of research, combining methods from different academic areas, including social analysis of institutional arrangements, remote sensing, landscape ecology, and dynamic modeling. Findings will be incorporated into multiscale LUCC models to produce scenarios of possible trajectories of deforestation in Amazonia. We will develop models and scenarios, from local to regional scales, incorporating the project findings about institutional arrangements, land change and intraregional interplays. We expect the project to provide the basis for developing more robust environmental models, which consider the complexity of social interactions in Amazonia, and to allow researchers to study the relations between deforestation and climate change.
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