Environment and the Law in Amazonia: A Plurilateral Encounter [With DVD]

ISBN-13: 9781845195007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 204 str.

Cooper, James M.

Opis

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 world s lungs, remains unexplored and demographic density is still low. This important book sets out how the Amazon Basin s indigenous self-determination movements meet corporate profiteering and where extreme poverty, natural resource stewardship, and the vagaries of the international commodities markets meet. The environment and the law are disciplines at the heart of the debate concerning sustainable development, economic justice, and unfair trading practices. It is the intersection of these disciplines that provides us with an opportunity to explore how activist public policy, increasing transnational litigation, enlightened global governance, and the equitable international distribution of public goods will play out on the world stage."