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Environment & the Law in Amazonia
James M Cooper
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Description for Environment & the Law in Amazonia
Hardcover. A title that sets out how the Amazon Basin's 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. Num Pages: 292 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
Book & CD. 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 ... Read more
Book & CD. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195007
SKU
V9781845195007
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About James M Cooper
James M Cooper is a Barrister and Solicitor, is Institute Professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, and serves as Assistant Dean of Mission Development and Director of International Legal Studies. Christine Hunefeldt is Professor in the Department of History at University of California, San Diego and served as Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin ... Read more
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