Socio-ecological resilience in the context of sea level rise
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2014
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The presentation addresses ways to build adaptive capacities of indigenous communities in the Amazon Estuary, a region governed by tidal floods. It reviews available data that shows fluctuations in land use and sources of income from the 1950’s to 2008, as well as contexts of rural/urban population changes. Advancing the notion of socio-ecological resilience, it advocates for local peoples’ capacity to adapt by maintaining the structural and functional features of social and natural landscapes over time.
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SEA LEVEL RISE, SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, RESILIENCE, BRAZIL, AMAZON REGION, URBANIZATION, LAND USE, ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, SOUTH AMERICA