The Brazilian Air Force's mission is: "Maintain the sovereignty of the airspace and integrate the national territory, with a view to the defense of the country boundaries" (Brasil, 2018, p. 20). To achieve this mission, the Brazilian Air Force needs the readiness to employ means that are part of complex systems limited in resources. Thus, it is necessary to use such resources most efficiently.Air Forces operations are intrinsically complex. This affirmation drives to constant development and improvement of all the readiness structures. To achieve this goal Brazilian Air Force has a tool called Operational Assessment (represented by acronym AVAOP), and Readiness Command is accountable for it. This command has subordinated units, where the operational resources are prepared and trained. One of them, responsible for performing AVAOPs, is the Institute of Operational Applications, based at Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo state. At that institute, "the staff is trained and skilled in solving complex problems and generating solutions with mathematical models and programming, statistics, and stochastic processes". (Brasil, 2019, p. 2).
The Amazon Rainforest suffers from unsustainable exploitation and encroachment on native peoples’ territories, leading to poverty and environmental destruction. This inquiry aims to understand the impact of deforestation on the economic development of communities and peoples and the relationships between persistent poverty and social pathologies. The research project employed empirical and conceptual methods, collecting data through interviews and constructing a systemic model concerning pathological dynamics within the Amazon region. The study found traps involving innovation, biodiversity, capacity building, access to economic assets, social development, cultural identity, access to knowledge, savannization, and forest appropriation. A systemic approach that reconnects with nature is essential to establish a sustainable economy in the Amazon rainforest. Proposed solutions include an ecological economy, stopping deforestation, encouraging entrepreneurship, valuing tradition, safe environment, building skills and competencies, increasing information and communication effectiveness, and fostering cooperation. This research seeks fundamentally new solutions that reach beyond the existing regime and contributes to establishing a new paradigm for the Amazon Forest.
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