Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon

Research that features participation and action orientation, such as participatory research (PAR), is especially valuable in contexts where there rapid change, high social inequality, great uncertainty about the future, which drives stakeholder demands for information to support their goals. The Amazon offers a context, it region diverse stakeholders engage contestation over environmental governance address issues climate change achieve conservation sustainable development. Stakeholder mobilization has changed terms by conducted, from definition of priority topics application findings. Due mobilization, more now necessarily participatory, routinely issue how will be conducted what purpose. In this paper, we provide an overview several experiences implementing methods PAR different teams or networks, focusing on complementary contributions outside researchers local stakeholders. heart paper reports three broad types development Amazon: (1) data collection co-production knowledge governance, (2) inclusive monitoring systems, (3) innovative models exchange facilitate collective action. Within each type, report multiple with distinct approaches research. These constitute can replicated other places broader impact