Chapter 34: Boosting relations between the Amazon forest and its globalizing cities
David M. Lapola, Belen Paez, Sandra Costa, Roberto Donato da Silva Júnior, Daniela M. Peluso, Paulo Moutinho, Maíra C. G. Padgurschi, Denilson Baniwa, Sônia Bridi, Nadino Calapucha, Zienhe Castro, Fander Falconí, James Junior, Mapulu Kamayurá, Eduardo Kohn, Anderson Mattos, Pedro Meloni Nassar, Laurent Troost, Manari Ushigua, Robert B. Wallace, Marko Zangas
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Urban Farm DB summary
This book chapter offers a brief, non-authoritative overview of the physical and cultural relations between rural (forest) and urban areas across the Amazon region. It identifies improvement points including economic incentives to draw healthcare professionals to rural areas, peri-urban agricultural belts to strengthen urban food security, expanded access to urban green space, and investment in a "smart cities, smart forests" concept, and states that mobilising human, financial and institutional resources to restore cultural, spiritual and affective bonds between urban and forest inhabitants is perhaps most important.