The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon: Environmental Enforcement in the World's Biggest Rainforest

by Mark Ungar (Editor)

Overview

This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. 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. Even such advances, though, struggle to curb devastation by oil extraction, mining, logging, dams, pollution, and other forms of ecocide. In every country, environmental protection is crippled by politics, bureaucracy, unclear laws, untrained officials, small budgets, regional rivalries, inter-ministerial competition, collusion with criminals, and the global demand for oils and minerals. Countries are better at creating environmental agencies, that is, than making sure that they work. This book explains why, with country studies written by those on the front lines—from national enforcement directors to biologists and activists.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319565521
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/13/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	177
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.