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New publication: supporting local communities impacted by dams in the Brazilian Amazon

Marion Le Failler (staff)| 18 December 2018

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Smart Road Development in the Amazon

Alfonso Malky (staff)| 12 December 2018

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Road in Colombia. Photo credit: Pedarilhos/Shutterstock.

CSF has been working with the Moore Foundation, IPAM, and FCDS to identify the relative riskiness of planned roads in the Amazon basin in terms of economic, social and environmental costs. Our goal is to promote better infrastructure decision-making in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru by contributing reliable data to the national road planning process.

Brazilian Public Prosecutors Seminar: Uses and Limits of Economic Valuation

Marion Le Failler (staff)| 9 July 2018

Most decisions regarding the environmental and social impacts of infrastructure projects in the Brazilian Amazon are arbitrated by judges, which means that there are often no clear criteria to establish compensation values.

Evaluating the impacts of hydroelectric plants on the Munduruku indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon

Anonymous| 5 December 2017

CSF staff conducted a field visit to villages of the Munduruku people in the Brazilian Amazon. These communities have been adversely affected for several years by the construction of the Teles Pires and São Manoel hydropower plants.

CSFScenic beauty of the Teles Pires river.

Case studies for the development of environmental compensation in Peru

Niki Gribi (staff)| 21 September 2017

Peru compensation publications

As part of our collaboration with the Environmental Ministry in Peru (MINAM), CSF has finished a series of papers on environmental compensation (biodiversity offsets). We explored 4 infrastructure and extractive projects in Madre de Dios and Loreto, and analyzed how to offset their residual impacts. This work supports MINAM’s development and implementation of technical compensation guidelines, while also generating evidence about methods for designing environmental compensation plans.

From all of us at CSF: Thank you!

Leandro Pampin| 19 December 2016
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Every day, support from donors like you makes our work possible. Are you willing to make a special year-end donation to help us protect ecosystems around the world?

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CSF Participates in Infrastructure Working Group Meeting in Brasília

Camila Jericó-D... (staff)| 26 September 2016

 

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Infrastructure WG’s participants during the meeting held in September 2016 .

CSF-Brazil on a workshop about "Dams in Tapajós River"

Camila Jericó-D... (staff)| 25 June 2015

On 21st June, CSF-Brazil participated of a workshop about “Dams in Tapajós River”, held in PUC University (Brazil). It was an opportunity to debate with students, professors and other NGOs the subject of huge infrastructures in Amazon and its implications on social and environmental issues.

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung made a report about this event and also an interview with Camila Jericó-Daminello, who is conducting the CSF’s study about the São Luiz do Tapajós dam, planned for the same river.

This was repost with permission from Heinrich Böll Foundation – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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CSF begins analysis of proposed dam in Brazil's Tapajós river basin

Camila Jericó-D... (staff)| 18 May 2015

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Tapajós river basin, Pará State, Brazil © Camila Jericó-Daminello

After an inventory of potential dams in the Tapajós river basin was released in 2008, the area has been hailed as the new frontier of energy development in Brazil. Due to the typically extensive environmental and social impacts of dam construction, governments and communities in the Amazon region have been engaged in discussions over the past few years on how to mitigate impacts on people and nature. Some dam projects are already underway with many more on the drawing board.

What is Conservation Economics?

John Reid (staff)| 5 March 2015

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There’s no Wikipedia page so you can be forgiven for suspecting that I’m making it up. But Conservation Economics is actually being practiced by a bunch of serious people engaged in one of the most profound challenges of our time - averting massive losses in the diversity of Earth's life forms. So if it doesn’t exist, it’s time we brought it into being. Here goes: