Additional Materials - Jurisdictional/Landscape Approaches

This Practical Guide for Integrated Landscape Management outlines an adaptive, collaborative and iterative process to help stakeholders achieve transformational change in their landscape.

The Indigenous Negotiations Resource Guide, designed in consultation with Indigenous partners, supports Indigenous peoples and local communities to negotiate effective and equitable benefit sharing agreements with those seeking to develop their lands, waters and resources, such as for extractive and infrastructure projects. 

The guide document is available to download in both English and Spanish.

This brochure gives an overview of LandScale, a user-friendly assessment tool and validation service that helps generate credible landscape-level insights.

The main objective of this study is to propose a methodology to evaluate the impacts of ASGM on human health in different contexts in the Brazilian Amazon. It connects several points in the literature based on hypotheses regarding mercury dispersion in water, its transformation into methylmercury, and absorption by fish and humans. This methodology can be used as a tool to estimate the extent of environmental damage caused by artisanal gold mining, the severity of damage to the health of individuals contaminated by mercury and, consequently, can contribute to the application of fines to environmental violators.

The objective of this study was to develop a methodology for assessing the socio-environmental costs of dredge boat mining in the Tapaj´os watershed, using a method linking the type of gold mining, type of pump, motor power required, time spent in exploration, and mercury use with the average socioeconomic cost. The findings can contribute to a more accurate economic valuation of illegal dredge boat mining, providing valuable information for estimating compensation fines and planning law enforcement investments to prevent illegal ASGM.