Brazil-Guiana Border
The French Guyana-Brazil, Amapá region remains relatively isolated on both sides of the frontier, poorly accessible.
Forest is the primary cover with a very strong biodiversity. The local population needs to cope with social and environment changes but are poorly informed or helped by consistent and well-adapted policies. As a border region it remains far from the decision centers and there is a strong lack of shared public policies.
The region challenges
- A complex transborder context with different social and environmental governmental regulations.
- The region is mostly forested with high biodiversity with various degraded environments
- A large demographic growth on both sides but contrasted across the frontier
- “Isolated” region with a population with small incomes vulnerable to climatic and socio-economic changes
Main questions of past and on-going research
Climate and Health Brazilian Observatory: the GAPAM Sentinela Project
- How do transborder contexts limit the fight against vector-borne diseases ?
- How to develop tools and methodologies to cope with this particular context ?
- How to bring both countries to cooperate and elaborate a shared diagnostic ?
- What common methodologies and protocols can facilitate date exchange and exploration ?
Biodiversity indicators for the actors: the SINBIOSE Project
- How to construct useful indicators on the both sides of the border?
- Which type of indicators is useful for each border side?
- How to build a common framework?
Monitoring forest and biomass from space: the BIOMAP project
- How to monitor biomass based on a forest typology and detecting biomass changes from space ?
- How to combine forest inventories and low to very high remote sensing data to capture forest structure and associated biomass ?