TY - BOOK ID - 32076761 TI - The 21st century fight for the Amazon : environmental enforcement in the world’s biggest rainforest PY - 2018 SN - 3319565524 3319565516 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental protection KW - Amazon River Region KW - Environmental conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - Environmental quality management KW - Protection of environment KW - Environmental sciences KW - Applied ecology KW - Environmental engineering KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmental quality KW - Amazonia KW - Latin America-Politics and gover. KW - Environmental law. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Regionalism. KW - Latin American Politics. KW - Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. KW - International Environmental Law. KW - Environmental Policy. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Environment law KW - Law KW - Sustainable development KW - Government policy KW - Law and legislation KW - Latin America—Politics and government. KW - International environmental law. KW - International environmental law KW - International law KW - Common heritage of mankind (International law) KW - Latin America: politics and government. KW - Latin America KW - politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076761 AB - 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. 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. . ER -