ABSTRACT

The Amazon rainforest has undergone significant climate changes in the last 50 years. To combat the drivers of climate change, promote sustainable development, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the region, the Science Panel for the Amazon has introduced the concept of a socio-bioeconomy of healthy standing forests and flowing rivers. However, the Amazon is in danger of surpassing a tipping point, the threshold that sustains the environmental stability of the forest, which may hinder the implementation of the socio-bioeconomy and worsen social and environmental problems in the region. In this study, we analyze the impacts of global warming, land use change, extreme droughts, and forest fires on the provision of ecosystem services and discuss nature-based solutions to strengthen the socio- bioeconomy of the Amazon region.

KEYWORDS:
Global warming; Forest fires; Non-timber forest products; Extreme droughts; Nature-based solutions