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Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin
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PELICICE, Fernando Mayer et al. Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin. Environ Manage, v. 68, n. 4, p. 445-452, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7
0364-152X
10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7
Autor
Pelicice, Fernando Mayer
Agostinho, Angelo Antonio
Akama, Alberto
Andrade Filho, José Dilermando
Santos, Valter M Azevedo
Barbosa, Marcus Vinicius Moreira
Bini, Luis Mauricio
Brito, Marcelo Fulgêncio Guedes
Candeiro, Carlos Roberto Dos Anjos
Caramaschi, Érica Pellegrini
Carvalho, Priscilla
Carvalho, Rodrigo Assis de
Castello, Leandro
Chagas, Davi Borges das
Chamon, Carine Cavalcante
Colli, Guarino Rinaldi
Daga, Vanessa Salete
Dias, Murilo Sversut
Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola
Fearnside, Philip
Ferreira, Wagner de Melo
Garcia, Diego Azevedo Zoccal
Krolow, Tiago Kutter
Kruger, Rodrigo Ferreira
Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel
Lima Junior, Dilermando Pereira
Lolis, Solange de Fátima
Lopes, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso
Loyola, Rafael Dias
Magalhães, André Lincoln Barroso
Malvasio, Adriana
Marco Junior, Paulo De
Martins, Pedro Ribeiro
Mazzoni, Rosana
Nabout, João Carlos
Orsi, Mário Luis
Padial, Andre Andrian
Pereira, Hasley Rodrigo
Pereira, Thiago Nilton Alves
Perônico, Phamela Bernardes
Petrere Junior, Miguel
Pinheiro, Renato Torres
Pires, Etiene Fabbrin
Pompeu, Paulo Santos
Portelinha, Thiago Costa Gonçalves
Sano, Edson Eyji
Santos, Vagner Leonardo Macedo Dos
Shimabukuro, Paloma Helena Fernandes
Silva, Idelina Gomes da
Souza, Lucas Barbosa e
Resumen
The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental conditions. These changes are jeopardizing the basin’s biodiversity and ecosystem services. Threats are escalating as poor environmental policies continue to be formulated, such as environmentally unsustainable hydropower plants, large-scale agriculture for commodity production, and aquaculture with non-native fish. If the current model persists, it will deepen the environmental crisis in the basin, compromising broad conservation goals and social development in the long term. Better policies will require thought and planning to minimize growing threats and ensure the basin’s sustainability for future generations.