Navigating the Map of Environmental-policy Narratives and its Influence within the Conservation Network of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon

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Carlos Eduardo González-Rodríguez and co-authors published a 2025 study mapping the stories that steer conservation work in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon. The region draws many organizations, funders, and technologies, forming a tangled cooperation network. What each actor believes about the forest shapes whom it works with and how. The team set out to chart those beliefs as narratives.

They identified seventeen environmental narratives circulating in the network. For each organization, they measured which stories it endorsed, and how those endorsements patterned its links to others. Shared narratives appear to glue some partnerships together, while clashing ones may isolate actors. The study treats ideas as infrastructure: invisible, but load-bearing. For conservation planners, the map offers a diagnostic tool. Before funding projects, they can see where the story lines align or collide. The authors argue that managing narratives is part of managing the forest itself.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12748104