Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

The Fall 2024 seminar focus on "A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness". Global society is once again focusing its attention on the conservation of the Amazon, but the outlook is not optimistic. Top-down approaches that depend on macroeconomic policies have not changed the behavior of the inhabitants of the forest frontier, while efforts to improve law enforcement have failed because frontier societies are profoundly unequal. Inequality encourages informality, which breeds corruption and illegality. The seminar will examine the drivers of the conventional economy and the policy options that might change the development pathway of the World's largest tropical forest biome. The seminar will be organized around a series of policy briefs recently published the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA 2023).
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Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 5936

Section 01