Presentation by Eduardo S. Brondizio at “Science-policy exchange: Big ideas to connect landscapes, climate and development” Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.

1. The Predicament of Connectivity and the
Changing Landscape of Collective Action
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Department 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 FORUM
Science-policy exchange – Big ideas to connect landscapes, climate
and development
Paris, Dec 6, 2015

2. Steffenetal2015.
The Great Global Acceleration … and its regional manifestations
Brondizio 2013

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Indigenous Militia against loggers
The 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

7. 1970
1980
1990 2010
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
1900.0 1950.0 1970.0 1990.0 2010.0
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8. The face of urban vulnerability
60-90% population moderate to very high degree of vulnerability
=[lack infrastructure, flood risk, income, social indicators]
Mansuretaln.d.,Brondizio2011
Insolvent municipalities cannot respond to accelerated demands

9. Urbanization and the Changing Nature of Collective Action Problems
Functional Inter-dependence: limits to local level responses

10. 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
Brondizio n.d.
Structuraldeterminants
Constraints-Opportunities
Action-Interactions
Emergentlandscapes

11. 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

12. Thank You!

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