Amazon at Risk

Economic, Social and Environmental Questions
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-31980-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The book offers a systematic analysis of economic development across the eight Amazonian countries—Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname—as well as the territory of French Guiana. It reveals how resource-intensive growth has exacerbated deforestation, ecological degradation and the erosion of indigenous rights.

Readers will gain a critical understanding of the structural tensions between conservation and development through landmark cases, including the Chevron pollution lawsuit, Ecuador’s Yasuní referendum and illegal mining in Peru’s Madre de Dios. The concluding assessment of the Amazon’s tipping point underscores the urgency of rainforest protection for global climate stability. Additionally, the book offers historical and structural analytical tools for exploring the complex relationship between society and nature.

This volume will be valuable for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of environmental governance, economic history, political ecology and Latin American studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Min

Wimer, Fernando Romero

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Economy, society, and socio-environmental issues in the Brazilian Amazon Region 2: Society, economy, and socio-environmental issues in the Amazon Region of Peru 3: Economy, society, and socio-environmental issues in the Colombian Amazon Region 4: Economy, society, and socio-environmental problems in the Amazon Region of Ecuador 5: Economy, society, and socio-environmental issues in the Bolivian Amazon Region 6: Economy, society and socio-environmental issues in the Venezuelan Amazon Region 7: Economy, society, and socio-environmental issues in the Amazon Region of Suriname 8: Economy, Society, and Socio-Environmental Issues in the Amazon Region of Guyana 9: Economy, society and socio-environmental issues in the Amazon Region of French Guiana

Über Autor(innen)

Min Zhang is the Associate Professor of American Studies at Nanjing Agricultural University. Her research interest is international environmental governance.

Fernando Romero Wimer is a Professor of History from the National University of the South (UNS), Argentina. He earned his Master's degree in Development and Territorial Management from UNS and his PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He currently serves as Professor of undergraduate and graduate courses in International Relations at the Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA), Brazil, Director of the Interdisciplinary Group for Studies and Research on Transnational Capital, States, Dominant Classes, and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean (GIEPTALC) and of the Center for Studies on Nature and Capital (NUNACAL) at the Mercosur Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA). He is also a Researcher at the Collective for Social Studies and Research (CEISO) of Argentina and at the Interdisciplinary Center for Agrarian Studies (CIEA) at UBA.