Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) is a non-profit, independent research, policy and outreach organisation working towards achieving sustainable development in the Amazon region in a way that reconciles people’s economic aspirations and social justice with the maintenance of the functional integrity of tropical forest landscapes. Made up of scientists and educators, the remit of IPAM is to address three problems that threaten the survival of the forest and its people: degraded landscape, non-sustainable economies and social injustice.
IPAM research has throughout its history been based on the concept of participatory research by measuring and assessing both from the point of view of scientific research, environment conservation and community. IPAM’s activities and researches are carried out by experts of academic excellence through four major research programmes:
- Amazon scenarios
- climate change
- community-based management of floodplains and forests
- IPAM international programme.