Discover how environmental and technological governance is woven across the Amazon of Colombia and Peru
Our new paper maps 392 organizations and 793 cooperation ties (2021–2023) in the Colombia–Peru Amazon, revealing fragile governance: reliance on a few hubs/tech platforms and weak cross-border links.
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Discover how environmental and technological governance is woven across the Amazon of Colombia and Peru
Our new paper maps 392 organizations and 793 cooperation ties (2021–2023) in the Colombia–Peru Amazon, revealing fragile governance: reliance on a few hubs/tech platforms and weak cross-border links.
The Amazon, the most biodiverse biome on the planet, faces increasing pressures from deforestation, illegal mining, agricultural expansion, and extreme climate events that exceed local response capacities. It is not enough to look at isolated policies or projects; it is essential to understand how the different institutions working to address these challenges connect with each other.
In the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, there is a wide range of government actors, local organizations, universities, international NGOs, research centers, and technological networks working on environmental issues and collectively forming a cooperation network that supports environmental governance in the biome. But how solid is this network? Who connects to whom? Where are its strengths and weaknesses?
Our recent article, Institutional network relationships and environmental governance in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, we analyzed this institutional network by identifying 392 actors and 793 relationships between 2021 and 2023. In this analysis, an actor is understood as any institution, organization, or platform that participates in information exchange, cooperation, or decision-making within the environmental governance system. We focused on cooperation relationships, use of technologies, and knowledge transfer based on interviews with 131 experts from 60 organizations and institutions operating in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon (full node details are provided in the following dashboard).