A study led by a Cambridge University lead author offers a new way of rebuilding our economies based on the success of indigenous and traditional communities in the Amazon basin. Professor Rachael Garrett from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Geography and the Conservation Research Institute says that economic models known as socio-bioeconomies, or SBEs, could resolve the systemic changes in how Western economies are designed. The report, in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, starts with the need to shift from environmentally harmful production in the Amazon to a model built …
