Assessing the impacts of sustainable development projects in the Amazon: The DURAMAZ experiment

Sustainability Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-212

  Le Tourneau, François Michel ^a   Marchand, Guillaume ^a   Greissing, Anna ^a   Nasuti, Stéphanie ^a   Droulers, Martine ^a   Bursztyn, Marcel ^b   Léna, Philippe ^c   Dubreuil, Vincent ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ RENNES 2   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon; Environment; Sustainability; Sustainable development indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875528502     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-013-0200-1     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Anand S, Sen AK (1994) The human development index: methodology and measurement. University of Oxford, Oxford.
2. Asner GP, Broadbent EN, Oliveira PJC, Keller M, Knapp DE, Silva JNM (2006) Condition and fate of logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon. P Natl Acad Sci USA 103(34): 12947-12950.
3. Ayong Le Kama A, Lagarenne C, Le Lourd P (2004) Indicateurs nationaux du développement durable: Lesquels retenir? Rapport du groupe interministériel sur les indicateurs présenté à la Cour des Comptes et de l'Économie de l'Environnement, France, p 214.
4. Berkes F (2003) Rethinking community-based conservation. Conserv Biol 18(3): 621-630.
5. Brondizio ES (2011) Forest resources, family networks and the municipal disconnect: Examining recurrent underdevelopment in the Amazon estuary. In: Pinedo-Vasquez MA, Ruffino M, Padoch CJ and Brondízio ES (dirs) The Amazon Várzea, Springer, New York, pp 207-229.
6. Brondizio ES, Cak A, Caldas M, Mena C, Bilsborrow R, Futemma CT, Moran EF, Batistella M and Ludewigs T (2009) Small farmers and deforestation in Amazônia. In: Keller M, Bustamante M, Gash J and Silva Dias P (eds) Amazônia and global change: A synthesis of LBA research, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp 117-143.
7. Buclet B (2006) NGO networks and governance in the Amazon region. Autrepart 37: 93-110.
8. Bunker SG (1985) Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, unequal exchange, and the failure of the modern state, University of Chicago Press, USA.
9. Carpentera SR, Mooney HA, Agard J, Capistrano D, DeFries RS, Díaz S, Dietz T, Duraiappah AK, Oteng-Yeboah A, Pereira HM, Perrings C, Reid WV, Sarukhan J, Scholes RJ, Whyte A (2009) Science for managing ecosystem services: beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. P Natl Acad Sci USA 106(5): 1305-1312.
10. Cash DW, Clark WC, Alcock F, Dickson NM, Eckley N, Guston DH, Jäger J, Mitchell RB (2003) Knowledge systems for sustainable development. P Natl Acad Sci USA 100(14): 8086-8091.
11. Daly HE, Cobb JB Jr (1989) For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment and a sustainable future. Beacon Press, Boston.
12. De Mello NA (2010) Les politiques publiques de développement durable. In: Le Tourneau F-M, Droulers M (eds) L'Amazonie brésilienne et le développement durable. Belin, Paris, pp 47-72.
13. Fearnside PM (2005) Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: history, rates and consequences. Conser Biol 19(3): 680-688.
14. Fearnside PM (2008) The roles and movements of actors in the deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia. Ecol Soc 13(1): 23 [online], http://www. ecologyandsociety. org/vol13/iss1/art23/.
15. Foley JA, DeFries R, Asner P, Barford C, Bonan G, Carpenter SR, Chapin FS, Coe MT, Daily GC, Gibbs HK, Helkowski JH, Holloway T, Howard EA, Kucharik CJ, Monfreda C, Patz JA, Prentice IC, Ramankutty N, Snyder PK (2005) Global consequences of land use. Science 309(5734): 570-574.
16. Geffray C (1995) Chroniques de la servitude en Amazonie brésilienne. Karthala, Paris.
17. Goodland RJA, Irwin HS (1975) Amazon jungle: green hell to red desert?. An ecological discussion of the environmental impact of the highway construction program in the Amazon Basin, Elsevier.
18. Hall A (2008) Better red than dead: paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia. Philos T R Soc B 363(1498): 1925-1932.
19. Hecht SB, Cockburn A (1989) The fate of the forest: developers, destroyers and defenders of the Amazon. Verso, New York.
20. Jah R, Murthy KVB (2003) A critique of the Environmental Sustainability Index. Australian National University Division of Economics Working Paper, Canberra.
21. Kohlhepp G (1995) The international pilot programme for Amazonia: An approach to sustainable regional development. Int Geogr Union Bull 45: 17-30.
22. Lahsenm M, Nobre CA (2007) The challenge of connecting international science and local level sustainability: the case of the LBA. Environ Sci Policy 10: 62-74.
23. Laurance WF, Cochrane MA, Bergen S, Fearnside PM, Delamônica P, Barber C, D'Angelo S, Fernandes T (2001) The future of the Brazilian Amazon. Science 291(5503): 438-439.
24. Le Tourneau FM, Droulers M (2010) L'Amazonie brésilienne et le développement durable. Belin, Paris.
25. Le Tourneau FM, Greissing A (2010) A quest for sustainability: Brazil nut gatherers of São Francisco do Iratapuru and the Natura Corporation. Geogr J 176(4): 334-349.
26. Levett R (1998) Sustainability indicators: integrating quality of life and environmental protection. J Roy Stat Soc A Sta 161(3): 291-302.
27. Lobato Ribeiro A (2002) Modelo de indicadores para mensuração do desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia. PhD thesis, Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
28. Loh J, Harmon D (2005) A global index of biocultural diversity. Ecol Indic 5: 231-241.
29. Loh J, Green RE, Ricketts T, Lamoreux J, Jenkins M, Kapos V, Randers J (2005) The living planet index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity. Phil Trans R Soc B 360: 289-295.
30. Malhia Y, Aragão LE, Galbraith D, Huntingford C, Fisher R, Zelazowski P, Sitch S, McSweeney C, Meir P (2009) Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. P Natl Acad Sci USA 106(49): 20610-20615.
31. Marchand, G. (2010) Un système d'indicateurs pour évaluer les impacts territoriaux des politiques de développement durable dans les zones rurales d'Amazonie brésilienne: L'expérience IDURAMAZ. PhD thesis, IHEAL/University Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle, http://tel. archives-ouvertes. fr/tel-00536985_v1/.
32. Marks N, Abdallah S, Simms A, Thompson S (2006) The unhappy planet index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact. New Economics Foundation, London.
33. MMA (Brazil Ministry of Environment) (2004) PPG-7. Subprograma projetos demonstrativos. estudos da Amazônia: Avaliação de 20 projetos. Série Experiências PDA 5.
34. Moran E (1981) Developing the Amazon: the social and ecological impact of settlement along the transamazon highway. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
35. Morsello C (2006) Company-community non-timber forest product deals in the Brazilian Amazon: A review of opportunities and problems. For Pol Econ 8: 485-494.
36. Morsello C, Adger NW (2007) Do partnerships between large corporations and Amazonian indigenous groups help or hinder communities and forests? In: Ros-Tonen MAF (ed) Partnerships in sustainable forest resource management: Learning from Latin America, CLAS 94. Brill e-books, Boston, pp 147-167.
37. Munda G (2005) "Measuring sustainability": A multi-criterion framework. Environ Dev Sustain 7: 117-134.
38. Nogueira EM, Fearnside PM, Walker Nelson B, Imbrozio Barbosa R, Hermanus Keizer EW (2008) Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: new allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories. Forest Ecol Manag 256: 1853-1867.
39. OECD (2004) OECD key environmental indicators. OECD Environment Directorate, Paris.
40. Ostrom E, Nagendra H (2006) Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory. P Natl Acad Sci USA 103(51): 19224-19231.
41. Prescott-Allen R (2001) The well being of nations: A country-by-country index of quality of life and the environment. Island Press, Washington, DC.
42. RAISG (Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georeferenciada) (2010) Mapa da Amazonia 2010-Áreas protegidas e terrotórios indígenas, ISA, São Paulo, Brazil.
43. Reed MS, Fraser EDG, Dougill AJ (2006) An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities. Ecol Econ 59: 406-418.
44. Rodrigues ASL, Ewers RM, Parry L, Souza C Jr, Veríssimo A, Balmford A (2009) Boom-and-bust development patterns across the Amazon deforestation frontier. Science 324(5933): 1435-1437.
45. Santilli J (2005) Socioambientalismo e novos direitos. Peirópolis, São Paulo.
46. Schwartzman S, Zimmerman B (2005) Conservation alliances with indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Conserv Biol 19(3): 721-727.
47. Soares-Filho BS, Nepstad DC, Curran LM, Coutinho Cerqueira G, Alexandrino Garcia R, Azevedo Ramos C, Voll E, McDonald A, Lefebvre P, Schlesinger P (2006) Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature 440(23): 520-523.
48. Stokke K, Mohan G (2001) The convergence around local civil society and the dangers of localism. Soc Scientist 29(11/12): 3-24.
49. Talberth J, Cobb C, Slattery N (2006) The genuine progress indicator 2006. A tool for sustainable development, Redefining Progress, Oakland, CA.
50. Tasaki T, Kameyama Y, Hashimoto S, Moriguchi Y, Harasawa H (2010) A survey of national sustainable development indicators. Int J Sust Dev 13(4): 337-361.
51. Valentin A, Spangenberg JH (2006) A guide to community sustainability indicators. Environ Impact Assess Rev 20(2000): 381-392.
52. Wackernagel M, Monfreda C, Moran D, Wermer P, Goldfinger S, Deumling D, Murray M (2005) National footprint and biocapacity accounts 2005: the underlying calculation method. Global Footprint Network, Oakland.
53. Woodley E, Crowley E, Dey de Pryck J, Carmen A (2006) Cultural indicators of indigenous peoples' food and agro-ecological systems, Food and Agriculture Organization and International Indian Treaty Council, Rome, http://www. fao. org/sard/common/ecg/3045/en/Cultural_Indicators_paperApril2008. pdf.