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The Pantanal: A Seasonal Neotropical Wetland Under Threat

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Although wetlands are associated with water, their conservation can be a challenge at present days: Wetlands can lose water and be water insecure. The Pantanal is the largest continuous wetlands in the world, highly regulated by precipitation. However, precipitation has been substantially reduced from the past years. The present text explains how this can happen to wetlands and it will show the chain of causality through a conceptual model. The reduction in precipitation, caused by the accretion of the deforestation in the Amazon, reduces the amount of water that is shared in the Pantanal. The construction of dams in the plateau of the Pantanal holds the water that flows to the plain, where the use of the rivers as waterway reduces the capability of the water overflow (from rivers to the floodplain). Drier soil, deforestation, introduction of new crops, intense fire, and even more pronounced lack of rainfall are of high concern for water security in the biome. The water security and the culture of the “pantaneiro” must be taken into account to reach the wetland sustainability. A systemic view can promote a regard on the interdependencies between social and environmental processes related to the production and impacts of water scarcity in this wetland, also encompassing the plain and plateau relationship and the territories management outside and beyond the catchment borders.

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This chapter has been written under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on River Culture (Fleuves et Patrimoine), granted to KMW. This work was also supported by CNPq.

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  1. Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Mato Grosso State University, Cáceres City, MT, Brazil

    Solange Kimie Ikeda-Castrillon & Ernandes Sobreira Oliveira-Junior

  2. Global Water Partnership-South America, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Carlos Hiroo Saito

  3. Graduate Program in Geography, Federal University of Mato Grosso-UFMT, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil

    Onelia Carmem Rossetto

  4. University of Brasilia, Department of Ecology, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

    Carlos Hiroo Saito

  5. UNESCO Chair River Culture – Fleuves et Patrimoine, CNRS UMR 7324 CITERES, University of Tours, Tours, France

    Karl M. Wantzen

  6. CNRS UMR 7362 LIVE, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Karl M. Wantzen

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Ikeda-Castrillon, S.K., Oliveira-Junior, E.S., Rossetto, O.C., Saito, C.H., Wantzen, K.M. (2023). The Pantanal: A Seasonal Neotropical Wetland Under Threat. In: Brinkmann, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01949-4_36

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