Sustainable Amazon : Limitations and Opportunities for Rural Development
The report contributes to the debate
surrounding land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It sets the
context by reviewing the evidence concerning the deleterious
effect of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural
settlement, and productivity. Next, it compares the economic
future of an Amazonian community, under the traditional
"predatory logging followed by ranching" model,
and under sustainable logging. Last, the authors investigate
the potential to create a system of national forests. The
authors make four conclusions: 1) they demonstrate that
increasing levels of rainfall, seriously undermine
agricultural productivity, and sustainability. At the
highest extreme, in the 45 percent of the Amazon with annual
rainfall of over 2,200 mm, only forestry, and possibly some
palm crops, are likely to be economically viable; 2) the
authors assert that in this area of the Amazon, and much of
the transition area (rainfall between 1,800 mm and 2,200
mm), sustainable forestry would provide more stable
communities, and a higher standard of living than
agriculture; 3) the authors conclude that regulatory
competition, and a short local political time horizon,
prevent sustainable forestry from being adapted, despite its
better long-run performance; and, 4) some 10 percent of the
Amazon could be put into national forests, in a way that
would both meet current demand for Brazilian Amazonian
timber, and reinforce the Amazon park system, which is
expected to fully conserve 10 percent of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Schneider, Robert R.,
Arima, Eugenio,
Verissimo, Adalberto,
Souza, Carlos, Jr.,
Barreto, Paulo |
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2002
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL LAND USE,
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS,
AGRICULTURE,
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION,
CARBON,
CARBON EMISSIONS,
CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM,
CLIMATE,
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS,
CONCESSION,
CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY,
CROPS,
CULTIVATION,
DEFORESTATION,
DEGRADATION,
DISCOUNT RATES,
DRY SEASON,
ECOLOGY,
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS,
ECONOMIC GROWTH,
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY,
ECOSYSTEM,
EMISSIONS,
EMPLOYMENT,
EROSION,
EXCHANGE RATE,
FARMERS,
FARMING,
FOREST,
FOREST CONSERVATION,
FOREST DAMAGE,
FOREST MANAGEMENT,
FOREST POLICY,
FOREST RESOURCES,
FOREST STEWARDSHIP,
FORESTRY RESEARCH,
FORESTRY SECTOR,
FRUIT,
GDP,
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION,
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT,
GROUNDWATER,
HUMID ZONE,
HUMIDITY,
INCOME,
IRRIGATION,
KNOWLEDGE OF FORESTRY,
LAND USE,
LAND-USE,
LOGGING,
NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAM,
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM,
NATIONAL FORESTS,
NATURAL RESOURCES,
NITROGEN,
PARKS,
PASTURES,
PATHOGENS,
PHOSPHORUS,
PLANTING,
PRECIPITATION,
PRESENT VALUE,
PRODUCTIVITY,
RAIN FORESTS,
RAINFALL,
SATURATED SOILS,
SAVANNAS,
SEA,
SOCIAL COSTS,
SOIL,
STATE FOREST,
STATE FORESTS,
STUDY AREA,
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,
SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT,
SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY,
SUSTAINABLE USE,
TAXATION,
TEMPERATURE,
TIMBER,
TIMBER HARVESTING,
TIMBER SPECIES,
TOPOGRAPHY,
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE,
TREES,
VEGETATION,
WATER PRICING,
WILDLIFE,
WOOD, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1808701/sustainable-amazon-limitations-opportunities-rural-development
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14089
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