naa a22 4500 510806368 CHVBK 20180411083420.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11625-013-0200-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11625-013-0200-1 Assessing the impacts of sustainable development projects in the Amazon: the DURAMAZ experiment [Elektronische Daten] [François-Michel Le Tourneau, Guillaume Marchand, Anna Greissing, Stéphanie Nasuti, Martine Droulers, Marcel Bursztyn, Philippe Léna, Vincent Dubreuil] Since 1992, a boom of "sustainable development projects” has been registered in the Brazilian Amazon, turning it into a kind of open-air laboratory for sustainability. But their real impacts remain unclear, especially because of inadequate evaluation tools. A new device is therefore needed to unveil the inner mechanisms of development aid despite the difficulties linked with the diversity of contexts or the heterogeneity in the relevant parameters. Those are the challenges we met when we engaged in comparing the impacts of sustainable development programs in 13 sites throughout the Brazilian Amazon in order to identify determining factors of sustainability. To achieve our objective, we conceived an indicator system based on the results of intensive fieldwork, including social, economic, environmental, and biographical issues. Our results show that the most prominent problem of sustainability—evaluation of effectiveness—has not been tackled; life conditions and environmental preservation continue to appear antagonistic. At the same time, variability appears among outwardly coherent social groups, showing that a case-to-case approach is definitely indispensable and confirming the need to go "beyond panaceas” to find resolutions. This article successively addresses three points. First, we present the starting point of our research, or how the Amazon region was turned into a laboratory for sustainability and how our research project aimed at analyzing the consequences of this trend. Second, we discuss how available indicator systems fail to respond to the need for a multidimensional evaluation at the local level and, therefore, how we constituted our own analytical tool. Third, we focus on some results that can be derived from our system, especially in terms of identifying key factors needed to achieve sustainability in the Amazon. Springer Japan, 2013 Sustainability nationallicence Sustainable development indicators nationallicence Amazon nationallicence Environment nationallicence Le Tourneau François-Michel Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut Marchand Guillaume Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut Greissing Anna Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut Nasuti Stéphanie Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut Droulers Martine Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut Bursztyn Marcel Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil aut Léna Philippe Research unit on Local Patrimony, Institute for Research on Development (IRD), Paris, France aut Dubreuil Vincent Climate, Land-use and Remote Sensing research unit, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Rennes 2 University, Rennes, France aut Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 199-212 1862-4065 8:2<199 2013 8 11625 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-013-0200-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-013-0200-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Le Tourneau François-Michel Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marchand Guillaume Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greissing Anna Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nasuti Stéphanie Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Droulers Martine Centre for Documentation and Research on the Americas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bursztyn Marcel Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Léna Philippe Research unit on Local Patrimony, Institute for Research on Development (IRD), Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dubreuil Vincent Climate, Land-use and Remote Sensing research unit, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/Rennes 2 University, Rennes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/2(2013-04-01), 199-212 1862-4065 8:2<199 2013 8 11625 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer