Sustainable Land Use Systems and Human Living Conditions in the Amazon Region

The Amazon Information System (SIAMAZ); The Amazonian Register and Database; Funding through the European Community; The G7-Brazil Pilot Programme; Most Significant Gaps in Present Research in the Amazon Region; Outline of Significant Research Needs in the Amazon Region; Some Ideas about Research in Amazonia and French Guyana; Priority Areas and Some Ideas for Research on Amazonia; Activities and Research Priorities of the Centre for Amazonian Studies; Saving the Amazon - Some Discussion Points; Amazonian Floodplains: Needs for Research, Utilization and Protection; Workshop 1: Strategies for Sustainable Use and Protection of the Ecological Potential of the Amazon Region; Workshop 2: Strategies for Improving Human Living Conditions in the Amazon Region; Workshop 3: Strategies for Protection of Soil Fertility and Viable Reclamation of Degraded land in the Amazon Region; Some provocative statements; Workshop 4: Strategies for Protection and Economic Development of Aquatic Systems in the Amazon Region; Annexes: SIAMAZ; The Amazon Cooperation Treaty; The Global Environmental Facility, an Instrument for Structure and Adjustment; Draft of the G7-Brasil Pilot Programme (Science and Technology Subprogramme); Mercury in the Amazon: a Chemical Time Bomb?; Present Research Activities of European Institutions in Amazonia.