Global impact, local action : new environmental policy in Latin America /

Global impact, local action : new environmental policy in Latin America / edited by Anthony Hall. - London : Institute for the Study of the Americas, [2005] - xxi, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Papers presented at the Third Congress of European Latin Americanists, held in Amsterdam from 3-6 July 2002"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.

Between globalisation and regionalisation : the political ecology of pioneers fronts in the South-West Amazon / Martin Coy -- Global implications of Amazon frontier settlement : carbon, Kyoto and the role of Amazonian deforestation / Philip M. Fearnside -- New frontiers in the Amazon / Hervé Théry -- Between conservation and development : innovations and paradox in Amazon environmental policy / Neli Aparecida de Melo -- World Bank approaches to the Brazilian Amazon : the bumpy road towards sustainable development / John Redwood -- Political reforms and sustainability in the Bolivian Amazon : decentralisation, Participación Popular and the Land Distribution Act / Martina Neuburger -- Breaking the tutelage of the state : indigenous peoples in Brazil / Dan Pasca -- Fostering change for Brazil's indigenous people : the role of the pilot programme / Judith Lisansky -- Indigenous peoples as providers of environmental services in Amazonia : warning signs from Mato Grosso / Philip M. Fearnside -- Extractivists, indigenes and protected areas : science and conservation policy in the Amazon / David Cleary -- Extractive reserves in Rondônia : the challenge of collaborative management / Sergio Rosendo -- Participatory management assessment : a framework for the short-term evaluation of locally-based floodplain resources management in the Amazon / Fábio de Castro -- Fire use and prevention in the Brazilian Amazon : a conceptual household behaviour model / Latissa Chermont.

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