Objectives & Expected Results
Fostering public policies for sustainable adaptations in the Amazon.
Odyssea Scopes
Where we aim at :
- Analizing retrospectively the interactions between environment and society and their evolution in the last two decades,
- Assessing and exploring different adaptation strategies with local stakeholders, with respect to their impacts on the environment, household vulnerability and health,
- Building prospective scenarios and identifying how public policies could promote more sustainable adaptations to changing conditions.
Towards an Observatory
Based on the results of past and current projects, our objective is to propose an interdisciplinary methodology and innovative tools to monitor the dynamics of interactions between Amazonian societies and their environments, to assess the vulnerability of local populations to environmental changes and to understand how different modes of governance allow to strength adaptations. This observatory will serve as a basis for policy development that integrates social, environmental, political-economic and human health dimensions.
Fostering Social Learning
- Our methodology puts society at the heart of the observatory’s building process,
- Engaging stakeholders and decision makers in the research to favour advancement of their objectives and commitment to sustainable development issues,
- Promoting learning between researchers, policy makers and civil institutions through summer schools and common field works,
- Building a collaborative platform to share data, tools and demonstrators for scenario co-construction.
Our Key-Questions
- How have environmental/climatic conditions changed ?
- How have the populations adapted their practices to these changes ?
- How do local stakeholders imagine their adaptations to expected changes?
- Can these adaptations reduce their environmental footprint and vulnerability ?
- How could governance foster adaptations to these changes ?
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The Closing Meeting of the ODYSSEA project took place at the University of Brasilia on October 7 and 8, 2019: ODYSSEA project lessons, Observatory of socio-environmental dynamics in Amazonia.