Living Amazon Initiative: Free flowing rivers and forest friendly roads

Posted on 19 September 2011 |

Improving standards for infrastructure projects

Investments in infrastructure development projects, particularly in the transportation and energy sectors, are on a steep rise in the Amazon. Remote areas with little contact with the global economy have become the new frontiers for development, compromising the future of these fragile regions as well as the communities who have no prior experience in dealing with transformations of this magnitude.

Living Amazon Initiative Free - Flowing rivers and forest - friendly roads

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