The Predicament of Connectivity and the

Changing Landscape of Collective Action

Eduardo S. BrondizioDepartment of Anthropology

Center for the Analysis of Social Ecological Landscapes (CASEL)The Ostrom Workshop in Policy Analysis and Political Theory

Indiana University Bloomington, United States

GLOBAL LANDSCAPE FORUMScience-policy exchange – Big ideas to connect landscapes,

climate and development

Paris, Dec 6, 2015

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5.The Great Global Acceleration … and its regional manifestations

Brondizio 2013

Governing landscapes of overlapping property regimes

The changing nature of collective action

Urban vulnerability & networks shape regional landscapes

Connectivity and Acceleration Landscapes and Social Processes

Xavante Indigenous Reserve Ka’apor Indigenous Reserve

Island of Landscape Governance: Connectivity and the limits of level specific governance systems

ISA 2008. Xingu Indigenous Park

> 40% in Indigenous and Conservation areas

Fire events 2005-2015

Source: Juan Doblas, ISA/Programa Xingu “Populações tradicionais e proteção territorial: o caso da Terra do Meio” IPBES seminar Nov 15, 2015. University of Sao Paulo.

Deforestation [Prodes 2014]

Evolving Property Regimes, forms of attachment and management:Landscapes Within, Above, and Below

Indigenous Militia against loggersThe Washington Post, Nov. 2015

Small farmers, communities protesting soy expansion and water pollution (Santarem/BR 163, field photos)

Discussing reforestation plans across boundaries(Canarana, Xingu Indigenous Park, Rosely A. Sanchez)

Collective Action Dilemma:Boundary enforcement

Trans-boundary governance

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Padoch et al 2008; Costa, S. M. and E. S. Brondizio. 2010, Pnedo-Vasquez et al 2011; Brondizio et al 2013

The Brazilian Amazon: An Evolving Inter-Urban Articulation with high degree of ‘rural’-’urban’ circulation

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Insolvent municipalities cannot respond to accelerated demands

Urbanization and the Changing Nature of Collective Action Problems

Functional Inter-dependence: limits to local level responses

The co-evolution of inter-urban

networks, agrarian expansion, and

territorial conservation will shape Amazonian landscapes in the coming 20 years

The Predicament of Connectivity

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Bridging Institutions as social capital in complex landscapes

Aligning funding of climate challenge mitigation efforts to the SDGs

Incremental approach to improving basic social conditions and resilient ecosystems

Complex Systems thinking for landscape decision support

Final Remarks

Thank You!

Nathan Vogt - IN

PEA

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