1. @RAS_network is an international research network, mainly between Brazil and the UK, operating for over 10 years in the Amazon. RAS develops ecological and interdisciplinary research, including economic and social approaches. 
2. With a strong in loco work component, it seeks to provide scientific dissemination and interaction with local and regional actors, especially decision makers.
3. The network is coordinated by 7 researchers and includes partners and students from more than 30 associated institutions through various projects. The network grew organically and has a fluid composition.
4. Created in 2009, through 3 projects that came together to understand the causes and consequences of the degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Amazon. Since then, several other projects have been created and with that new people have joined RAS.
5. The main thematic axes researched are fire in the Amazon, conservation of aquatic and forest ecosystems and their biodiversity, environmental degradation, carbon sequestration and loss, climate change and forest restoration. Know more here rasnetwork.org/en/intro-eng/
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