How can ecological and economic sustainability be addressed and supported?

Objectives

CLIM-FABIAM is a research project led by a historic multi-disciplinary partnership between French and Brazilian teams.

CLIM-FABIAM is to provide spatial indicators of terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity and tools for monitoring their dynamics, by combining satellite and in situ data, physics-based hydrological modelling and multi-agent modelling (ABM) of local practices.
The local population (along with staff from government and local institutions) will be studied at various sites throughout the zone in question, to characterize their knowledge of their environment, their perception of change, their vision of the future and how they are planning to adapt.
Using the ComMod methodological approach, that information will be used to develop ABMs aimed at understanding resource use and occupation strategies and how that behaviour affects biodiversity.

Models are to be used to identify various change scenarios, based on hydrological situations deduced from regional climate simulations established using IPCC forecasts, so as to help local players find effective adaptation solutions and work collectively to draft public policy aimed at improving their means of subsistence while promoting biodiversity. The study zone is the floodplains along the Solimoes-Amazon corridor, from Tabatinga (Colombia/Peru/Brazil border) to Santarém (Pará, Brazil), an estimated area of 90 000 km2. The region includes three local sites, from upstream to downstream, for which a hydrobiogeochimical and biological study is under way as part of other programmes involving the CLIM-FABIAM consortium.
The Amazon floodplains are highly productive ecosystems and biodiversity hotspots, largely as a result of the river's regular floods, which also determine the local population's activities and practices. Environmental changes have direct consequences for river-floodplain dynamics that may threaten their biodiversity.

Location

• Pará state, Amazonia, Brazil, more specifically Lago Grande de Curuaí (Santarem).

Partners

• UMR IRD GET, UMR EspaceDev, CDS, UMR 208 Local Heritage, INPE, UF Goias, UE Amazonas, UF Juiz de Foras, UNB, UFOPA, UFRA, UFRGS

Funding

Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité