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Does size matter? Guiding deforestation to mitigate Amazonian tipping cascades
The Amazon, a critical global climate tipping element, faces destruction due to land transformation. Research by University of Hamburg and iES Landau investigates whether the size and pattern of deforestation matters, suggesting that guiding clearing can mitigate severe regional climate impacts.
PRODIGY: Understanding and Strengthening Amazonian Resilience
The PRODIGY project takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how diverse systems—ecological, social, and economic—interact and influence each other.
Knowledge tipping points: Co-creating rainforest futures
The article highlights the importance of envisioning multiple futures for human and rainforest coexistence. It emphasizes forest conviviality and knowledge co-creation, drawing insights from the PRODIGY research project, which shows that knowledge systems are essential for socioecological resilience.
Early warning signs in the Amazon: Tipping elements are not tipping points
Unveiling the relationship between society and the environment, a new research project sheds light on “tipping points” – critical thresholds beyond which change becomes abrupt and potentially irreversible.
