Amazonia 2030: bases for sustainable development.

The book is structured in three main parts: the Amazon Paradox; the Amazon Five; and zero deforestation and land management policies. Ending deforestation, it argues, is crucial both for the environment and climate and for the economic and social development of the Brazilian Amazon. Continued deforestation keeps Amazonian society trapped in a vicious cycle of environmental destruction with low land productivity, high poverty rates and slow social progress. Moreover, in recent years it has contributed to an explosion of environmental crime and an increase in violence in the region.