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Recognized as one of the world's most vital natural and cultural
resources, the Amazon faces a wide variety of threats from natural
resource and infrastructure development. Within this context, rigorous
scientific study of the region's complex social-ecological system is
critical to inform and direct decision-making toward more sustainable
environmental and social outcomes. Given the Amazon's tightly linked
social and ecological components and the scope of potential development
impacts, effective study of this system requires an easily accessible
resource that provides a broad and reliable data baseline. This paper
brings together multiple datasets from diverse disciplines (including
human health, socio-economics, environment, hydrology, and energy) to
provide investigators with a variety of baseline data to explore the
multiple long-term effects of infrastructure development in the Brazilian
Amazon.
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