Large-scale collective action: Amazon tipping point, actors, interventions

This research paper analyzes Amazon deforestation as a large-scale collective action problem, focusing on the behavioral and institutional drivers that either hinder or facilitate conservation efforts to prevent a biophysical tipping point.

• The Amazon rainforest is at risk of a dieback process that could transform it into a drier ecosystem with global climatic effects, as nearly 20% of the forest has already been lost.
• The authors propose a novel analytical framework based on collective action theory to address Amazon conservation, identifying six specific variables: information, accountability, harmony of interests, horizontal trust, knowledge about consequences, and sense of responsibility.
• An assessment of Amazon deforestation reveals that while increased transparency has improved information availability as a facilitator, the primary stressors remaining are a lack of accountability, distrust between actors, and a limited sense of responsibility for stopping deforestation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Large-scale collective action: Amazon tipping point, actors, interventions. https://www.sei.org/publications/large-scale-collective-action-amazon-tipping-point-actors-interventions/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Large-scale collective action: Amazon tipping point, actors, interventions. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/large-scale-collective-action-amazon-tipping-point-actors-interventions/.

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021largescale, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Large-scale collective action: Amazon tipping point, actors, interventions}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/large-scale-collective-action-amazon-tipping-point-actors-interventions/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }