21st Century Fight for the Amazon

Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of constitutional protections, military operations, stringent laws, police forces, judicial procedures and societal efforts that together break through barriers that have long restrained decisive action.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-23
Mått:148 x 210 x 11 mm
Vikt:256 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:177
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319859408

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Mark Ungar is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is author of four books and 30 publications and is a security sector advisor for the United Nations and Inter-American Development Bank. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Ford, Tinker, and Henkel Foundations.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: The Evolution of Environmental Enforcement.- 2. Amazonia, Organized Crime and Illegal Deforestation: Best Practices for the Protection of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.- 3. Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon: The Case of the El Choré Forest Reserve in Santa Cruz Department.- 4. Peru: A Legal Enforcement Model for the Amazon.- 5. Ecuador: Rainforest Under Siege .- 6. Colombia: Bridging the Gaps between What Is Needed and What Actually Exists Regarding the Protection of its Amazon.- 7. Environmental Penal Control in Venezuela: Amazonia and the Orinoco Mining Arc.- 8. Suriname: An Exposed Interior.