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INFRACURSIONS studies the infrastructures of incursion economies – a term we use to describe the hidden economic activities that invade remote frontiers and result in environmental degradation.

Our team aims to understand these hidden economies, investigate their drivers, and reveal their far-reaching environmental consequences.

Our goal is to provide a more nuanced picture of these economies from multiple perspectives, whether through remote sensing and modelling or through personal stories of those directly engaging in environmental damage.

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The Amazon rainforest faces unprecedented threats from deforestation. Illegal incursions — specifically illegal land grabbing, logging, and mining — play a major role in the Amazon’s destruction, fragmenting habitats and accelerating deforestation.

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The project will map both the human and environmental impacts of incursions and offer new tools to better grasp the often-overlooked phenomenon of small-scale extraction and its global consequences.

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The project has three specific components that comprise the core analytical framework of incursion infrastructures: 

Social
Technical
Legal

Three Project components

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BLOG POST Some considerations on forest governance and incursion economies at the end of COP30

Margherita Scazza spent over a week in Belém at COP30, dubbed by its organisers as the “COP of the Amazon”. In this latest blog post, Margherita reflects on the week and what it might mean for forest governance and incursion economies

NEWS Paper accepted for publication by Environment Research Letters

The paper ‘Weather disasters and their underreported transboundary impacts on Amazonian communities’ by Rayane Pacheco (Infracursions Research Associate) et al. has been accepted for publication by Environmental Research Letters. The paper is a result of the Fulbright Amazonia program…

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