The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) is an initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that seeks to improve integrated landscape management and ecosystem conservation in priority areas of the Amazon in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. The...

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable, conservationist measures will be ineffective to protect...