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Environment and the Law in Amazonia - A Plurilateral Encounter (Paperback)
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Environment and the Law in Amazonia - A Plurilateral Encounter (Paperback)
Series: CILAS Sussex Latin American Library
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There are few topics so large yet so uncovered in the academic
literature as the Amazon Basin. Much of the area that connects nine
South American states, hundreds of indigenous peoples, dozens of
multinational corporations, and the worlds lungs, remains
unexplored and demographic density is still low. But development
throughout the basin has occurred with a ravaging appetite: loggers
have decimated parts of the region with their fishbone patterns of
extraction; large-scale agribusiness has moved into a power vacuum;
coffee and sugar in earlier times soya, ranching, and mining
industries in more recent times have resulted in significant
deforestation, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; and
the booms and busts of traditional commodities like rubber latex,
nuts and turtle eggs impact negatively on the social and economic
structure of the basin. In the background to these developments
there is a resurgence of economic nationalism as countries prepare
their futures around a pending crisis over food security and global
climate change. Hydrocarbons potentials the possibility of oil and
gas fields underground in Amazonia complicate the situation as
indigenous communities, sharecroppers, landless peasants, and
others advocate for their respective rights, using ancient methods
of protest as well as digital activism through the Internet. This
important book sets out how the Amazon Basins indigenous
self-determination meets corporate profiteering, where the future
of natural resource stewardship is hotly debated, where subsistence
living, extreme poverty, and the vagaries of the international
commodities markets are revealed. The environment and the law is
seen to be at the heart of the intersection of sustainable
development and unfair trading practices... this product comes with
a DVD containing Devin Beaulieus El Perro Del Hortelano and James
Coopers Global Climate Change
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