Polycentric Climate Governance and the Amazon Tipping Point - Indigenous Climate Governance in Acre-Brazil and Ucayali-Peru

Fronika Claziena Agatha de Wit

2018

Abstract

The Amazon region faces complex challenges to the sustainable use of land and water resources because of its expanding socio-economic growth, infrastructure, and agricultural activities. Research shows that the Amazon may be moving towards a near-term tipping point: forest dieback might turn the forest from carbon sink to carbon emitter. Reducing emissions from deforestation, while at the same time keeping up agricultural production, is a major challenge for environmental governance. Top-down strategies fail to align the diverse levels and sectors of government and exclude local stakeholders from the process. New bottom-up forms of climate governance, with polycentric patterns, provide an innovative framework for multi-level governance. Polycentricity highlights the importance of vertical and horizontal integration as well as learning-by- doing. This study examines the challenges, potentials and co-benefits of polycentric governance for Low-Emission Rural Development (LED-R) and looks for sustainable pathways to prolong the Amazonian tipping point. As examples of polycentric governance in the Amazon, this research evaluates the adaptive capacity of three Brazilian Amazon States and local (indigenous) adaptation strategies. By doing so, this study moves beyond the Amazon´s ecological planetary boundary and includes the people living in the Amazon. It examines not only the boundaries for a sustainable landscape, but, more importantly, looks at a threshold for a sustainable territory. The Amazonian people have an important role in climate governance in order to prevent the Amazon´s tipping point.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

de Wit F. (2018). Polycentric Climate Governance and the Amazon Tipping Point - Indigenous Climate Governance in Acre-Brazil and Ucayali-Peru.In Doctoral Consortium - DCGISTAM, ISBN , pages 19-26

in Bibtex Style

@conference{dcgistam18,
author={Fronika Claziena Agatha de Wit},
title={Polycentric Climate Governance and the Amazon Tipping Point - Indigenous Climate Governance in Acre-Brazil and Ucayali-Peru},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DCGISTAM,},
year={2018},
pages={19-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={},
isbn={},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Doctoral Consortium - DCGISTAM,
TI - Polycentric Climate Governance and the Amazon Tipping Point - Indigenous Climate Governance in Acre-Brazil and Ucayali-Peru
SN -
AU - de Wit F.
PY - 2018
SP - 19
EP - 26
DO -