Eduardo S. Brondizio

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured leaf area index (LAI) values at 64 locations characteristic of many different cover types including mature forest, secondary succession, pasture, cropped land, barren land, and urban area throughout the Santarem, Brazil area.

TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-legal approach is used to study grassroots mobilization against the violation of social and environmental rights aggravated by floods in the Brazilian Amazon Estuary-Delta, where the Macro-Drainage Project of the Una River Watershed is considered.

TL;DR: The Bridge Collaborative presents principles and recommendations that help harmonize methods for evidence generation and use and provides detailed suggestions for how these recommendations can be applied in practice, streamlining efforts to apply multi-objective approaches and/or synthesize evidence in multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary teams.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ABM/LUCC modeling study of small-holder farming households in the Amazonian varzea in Marajó Island, Brazil is presented, in which the household agents employ one of two primary decision-making methods, either based on linear programming or decision trees.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the development and management of sustainable urban infrastructure must focus on interactions across urban and rural places to advance equitable health and well-being, and they call for a research agenda that focuses on urban-rural infrastructure systems, addressing trade-offs and synergies, decision-making, institutional arrangements, and effective co-production of knowledge across the diverse places connected by infrastructure.