1st Edition

Amazon at Risk Economic, Social and Environmental Questions

Edited By Min Zhang, Fernando Romero Wimer Copyright 2027
132 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.