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The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia book cover

1st Edition

The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia

By Pitou van Dijck Copyright 2013
320 Pages 86 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 86 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme. IIRSA aims at facilitating intra-regional trade and at improving trade and transport links with world markets. This is the first book on IIRSA and its potential implications for South America and more... Read more

1. The Assessment of IIRSA Corridors: an Introduction  2. IIRSA-The Initiative  3. IIRSA and the New Insertion of Latin America in the World Economy  4. Assessing Impact Ex-ante: an SEA  5. The Impact of Road Infrastructure – Reviewing Evidence  6. Predicting Deforestation – a Methodological Approach  7. Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Corredor Norte in Bolivia  8. The IIRSA Guianese Shield Hub: the Case of Suriname  9. Hub and Spokes: Manaus and its Infrastructure Network into Amazonia  10. The Environmental Impact Assessment of the BR-319 Manaus-Porto Velho - Methodological reflections  11. The Integrated Impact Assessment of Road Infrastructure in Amazonia  12. Conclusion: Towards an Improved Methodology for Assessing the Impact of Mega-Road Infrastructure

Biography

Pitou van Dijck is Associate Professor of Economics at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) at the University of Amsterdam.

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