Elsa Mendoza

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present field surveys of wood mills and forest burning across Brazilian Amazonia which show that logging crews severely damage 10,000 to 15,000 km2 of forest that are not included in deforestation mapping programmes.

TL;DR: The MAP Initiative in the southwestern Amazon provides an example of an innovative hybrid approach to environmental governance that includes government agencies, NGOs, universities and communities in a planning process that links scientific data to public deliberations in order to mitigate the effects of new infrastructure and climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review on interdisciplinarity, interorganizational networks and international cooperation highlights their justifying rationales and strategic practices for crossing multiple boundaries, such as recognizing grievances to manage politics, constituting functional redundancies in networks to manage uncertainty and nonaligned collaboration to manage both difficulties.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatially-explicit rent model of Brazil nut production is used to assess yields and potential profits from the Brazil nut concessions in Madre de Dios (Peru), under three scenarios of processing and management (unshelled, shelled and shelled-certified nuts).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the case of the Inter-Oceanic Highway, being paved through the tri-national frontier in the southwestern Amazon where Brazil, Bolivia and Peru meet to raise local awareness and facilitate public participation in planning to mitigate negative road impacts.