Título: | Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin |
Autor: | Pelicice, Fernando Mayer Agostinho, A. A. Akama, Alberto Andrade-Filho, José Dilermando Azevedo-Santos, Valter Monteiro De Barbosa, Marcus Vinícius Moreira Bini, Luis Mauricio Brito, Marcelo Fulgêncio Guedes Dos Anjos Candeiro, Carlos Roberto Caramaschi, Érica Pellegrini Carvalho, Priscilla de Carvalho, Rodrigo Assis Castello, Leandro das Chagas, Davi Borges Chamon, Carine Cavalcante Colli, Guarino R. Daga, Vanessa Salete Dias, Murilo Sversut Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre Felizola Fearnside, Philip Martin de Melo Ferreira, Wagner Garcia, Diego Azevedo Zoccal Krolow, Tiago Kütter Krüger, Rodrigo Ferreira Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel Lima-Junior, D. P. de Fátima Lolis, Solange Lopes, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso Loyola, Rafael Dias Magalhães, André Lincoln Barroso De Malvásio, Adriana De Marco Júnior, Paulo Martins, Pedro Ribeiro Mazzoni, Rosana Carlos Nabout, João Orsi, Mario Luís Padial, André Andrian Pereira, Hasley Rodrigo Pereira, Thiago Nilton Alves Perônico, Phamela Bernardes Petrere, Miguel Pinheiro, Renato Torres Pires-Oliveira, Etiene Fabbrin Pompeu, Paulo Santos Portelinha, Thiago Costa Gonçalves Sano, Edson Eyji Dos Santos, Vagner Leonardo Macêdo Shimabukuro, Paloma Helena Fernandes da Silva, Idelina Gomes Souza, Lucas Barbosa E. Tejerina-Garro, Francisco Leonardo de Campos Telles, Mariana Pires Teresa, Fabrício Barreto Thomaz, Sidinei Magela Tonella, Lívia Helena Vieira, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Simões Vitule, Jean Ricardo Zuanon, Jansen Alfredo Sampaio |
Palavras-chave: | Biodiversity Conservation Policy South America Sustainability |
Data do documento: | 2021 |
Revista: | Environmental Management |
Abstract: | The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental conditions. These changes are jeopardizing the basin’s biodiversity and ecosystem services. Threats are escalating as poor environmental policies continue to be formulated, such as environmentally unsustainable hydropower plants, large-scale agriculture for commodity production, and aquaculture with non-native fish. If the current model persists, it will deepen the environmental crisis in the basin, compromising broad conservation goals and social development in the long term. Better policies will require thought and planning to minimize growing threats and ensure the basin’s sustainability for future generations. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7 |
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