Amazon 2030 - Sustainability Issues in the World's Largest Rainforest Region

Walter Leal Filho is Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is Initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 700 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.Laís Viera Trevisan is Project Manager and Research Associate at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Her research interests are sustainability, technology and innovation for sustainable development, smart campuses and education for sustainability. She leads two research groups in the sustainability field: the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the European-North American Sustainability Research Consortium (ENASRC).Gabriel Costa is a Meteorologist (UFPA), with Ph.D. in Sciences (Applied Ecology, USP) currently effective Professor at Universidade Federal do oeste do Pará (Ufopa, Pará State- Brazil). Research interest in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, with special emphasis on the energy fluxes, Greenhouse gases emissions, renewable and sustainable energy, biogeochemistry cycles over tropical ecosystems. This includes the interaction between climate and health correlations, by air pollution and thermal comfort.Ismar Borges de Lima is Senior Professor, Level V: State University of Roraima—UERR, Brazil (2012–present). Director in Brazil for the Latin American Foundation for Research on Science, Nature and Tourism—RECINATUR Foundation (2014–present). Adjunct-Lecturer and postdoc Studies at Southern Cross University (SCU, Australia, 2016–2019). Ph.D. holder by the Waikato University, New Zealand (2004–2008). Master’s degree in international relations at the International University of Japan—IUJ (2000–2004), Internship at UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand in 2001. Professional training at the Radio Nederland Training Centre, The Netherlands (1995). Academic expedition and seminars in Africa: Botswana, Mozambique, Kenya, Swaziland, and South Africa (2018).

• The Yanomami crisis, ethno-ecocide practices and the 2030 Agenda: challenges to territorialize the SDGs in the Amazon.- The history behind the land use change in Rondônia state: deforestation culture for the exploitation of the land.- Risk assessment through the consumption of Mercury-contaminated fish riverine communities, Brazilian Amazon.- Struvite recovery from domestic and agro-industrial wastewater: agronomic potential fertilizer for the circular economy in Amazon cities.- Environmental Policy, Climate Emergency and Inequalities in the Amazon (2015-2023).- Mercury Exposure in Riverside Tapajós Communities in the Brazilian Amazon.- Companion modeling for bringing closer fishers and policymakers for sustainable fisheries management on the lower Amazon floodplain.- Tensions between territorial dynamics and the other ways of coexisting, inhabiting and reproducing life in the eastern Amazon: from the collective experience of women babaçu coconut breakers.- Tourism and Development in Amapá State, Brazil.- Sustainable Recovery in the Amazon: An analysis of the main practices adopted in Engineering Courses.- Estimation of the Vulnerability of the Coastal Zone of the Amazon to Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change.- Territorial Racism: the urban context of the Warao indigenous People in transit through the Brazilian Amazon.- Natural Arte - Sustainable Use of Wood.- The Amazon that is news on regional television news broadcasts: an analysis of the ‘Amazônia Viva’ operation based on the Frame Analysis Theory.- Analysis of news about the Amazon in the light of the Sustainable Development Goals.- Implementation of University Meliponary.- Access and the quality of drinking water in quilombola communities in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest.- REDD+ - Where is the money? Funding protection of tropical forests.- Carbon, communities and conservation projects: a case study in Rondônia state, Brazil.- PNAE and integrative policies in Boa Vista, Roraima: levels of learning, development, and sustainability.- Integrated diagnosis of biodiversity, water quality, and aquatic resources as an insight for conservation strategies and sustainability of artisanal fishing on the Tapajós River.- Analysis of fire hotspot numbers, fire radiative power and air pollutant concentrations in the Legal Amazonia between 2016 and 2021.- Amazon energy cultures and the transition to sustainability.- Biosocioeconomic contributions to restructuring the sustainable growth of the main value chains in the Amazon.- Environmental, organizational and productive perceptions of artisanal fisherwomen and family farmers: a case study in Santarém, Pará, Brazil.- Fisheries co-management on the lower Amazon: the process of resuming fishing agreements, as of 2021, in Pará state, Brazil.- Floristic and phytosociological survey of fabaceae and potential use of species for soil recovery.- Assessment of Vegetation’s Response Time to Water Availability in the Soil in the Jaru Biological Reserve, Rondônia.- CO2 flow dynamics in a primary forest area in Western Amazon in the dry period of 2022.- Yanomami People and Land in Roraima: Reviewing the Complex Nexus of Illegal Mining, Indigenous Vulnerability and Government Interventions.