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This chapter aims to review the sustainable development project of the Amazon biome, called Amazon 4.0. That way, their challenges and benefits of implementation were exposed, contributing to opinion formation and knowledge generation in this field. The study is characterized as an exploratory applied research, based on a qualitative approach. A bibliographic research was used for obtaining information. Benefits were verified through the application of sustainable management techniques grounded on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4RI) both for the improvement of already domesticated crops and for the discovery of new biological assets. Furthermore, this process contributes to the reduction of the environmental impact on the forest, helping in the process of capturing carbon from atmosphere and, consequently, to the reduction of global climate change across the globe. However, the study reiterates the importance of inspection practices developed from parallel practices to sustainable management in order to obtain greater control and punish those who use irrational exploitation as the only way to take advantage of the biome.
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Melo, G.A., Barbosa, S.B., Peixoto, M.G.M., Mendonça, M.C.A., de Andrade Guerra, J.B.S.O. (2023). Amazon 4.0: Ways to Sustainable Development. In: Aguilar-Rivera, N., Borsari, B., R. B. de Brito, P., Andrade Guerra, B. (eds) SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_113
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