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The relationship between sustainable development and climate change has been extensively addressed, but with few studies focusing on the Amazonian Rainforest. Due to its dimension and importance, preserving it is critical in order to mitigate the problem of climate change associated with rising temperatures, lower precipitation, and the increase of extreme weather events. This paper studies the effects of climate change on the sustainable development of Amazonia. A scientometric analysis was carried out which reveals the evolution of the research field in terms of the growing number of works that have been published in top journals and the main drivers of climate change in Amazonia, such as deforestation, global warming, and land use. Our results indicate that the environmental dimension of sustainable development has been the issue most studied. Our analysis leads us to recommend that policymakers implement incentives for better forest management, design policies with realistic expectations, and rely more on technical reports and approaches to implement policies. Better integration of policies at local, regional, national, and international levels is necessary in order to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Several measures to intensify the scientific approaches joining economic and social dimensions are also proposed. This work contributes to the systematization of the literature on sustainable development and climate change in Amazonia, which has not yet been done, and provides policy recommendations to researchers and professionals for a better understanding of climate change and sustainable development in the Amazonia region of Brazil.
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For these analyses, the software VOSviewer version 1.6.10 was used.
The keywords excluded were Amazon* AND (“Climate Change” OR “Global Warming”); Amazon* AND “Sustainable development”; Amazon* AND (“Climate Change” OR “Global Warming”); AND “Sustainable development.”
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Azevedo, S.G., Sequeira, T., Santos, M. et al. Climate change and sustainable development: the case of Amazonia and policy implications. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 7745–7756 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-07725-4
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