The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon

The planning and implementation of infrastructure projects is a long-term enterprise that involves debates over the many positive negative impacts. Previous work has examined questions about conditions for effective environmental governance infrastructure, but typically focused on individual short time frames. We therefore pursued an historical approach to across multiple cases, taking up examples highways dams in Amazon. Through multi-stakeholder workshops, conservation partners developed timelines events concerning four regions within basin. Timelines permit analysis identify periods particular dynamism, improvements declines effectiveness, identification influential stakeholders events, define effectiveness governance. conclude with lessons cases strategies infrastructure.