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  • Brazil, Hydroelectric Power Plant and Corruption

    The struggle to save the Tibagi River and one of the last forests in South Brazil

    by Adilson Brito ...
    This book aims to perpetuate the history of social and environmental achievements carried out by the activist organization Liga Ambiental, universities and citizens of Paraná. Efforts to prevent the construction of a sequence of large dams on the Tibagi River extended between 1984 and 2019. These moments were compiled and arranged chronologically based on information collected in technical books, ... Read more

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    A journalist’s fatal quest for answers

    by Dom Phillips ...
    “A book both brilliant and broken, [and] one that is ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself.”—The Guardian"The book nearly died with him in the Amazon. But the story endured. . . [Chapters are] rooted in conflict, but searching for solutions."—The New York TimesJournalist Dom Phillips traveled deep into the Amazon rainforest searching for solutions to the problem of ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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  • Extraction

    The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

    by Thea Riofrancos ...
    **"Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution." —Naomi KleinAn in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires.**Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Barrister for the Earth

    'Law could be our planet's greatest hope' - Isabella Tree

    by Monica Feria-Tinta ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS'Inspiring . . . Law could be our planet's greatest hope.'ISABELLA TREE'Fascinating and compelling . . . A vital book for our times.'JULIAN HOFFMAN**'A seminal and important book which will become a key part of the gathering movement to protect the rights of nature.'SARAH LANGFORD*Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law? ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Green Republic

    A Conservation History of Costa Rica

    by Sterling Evans ...
    With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Synthesis for the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    based largely on information provided in fourteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the report on The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic ... Read more

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  • From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence

    Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: ElQuisco and Puerto Oscuro

    by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernandez ...
    From Seascapes of extinction to seascapes of confidence. Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro by Gloria Gallardo Fernandés is an important contribution to our understanding of the multifaceted challenges underlying sustainable solutions to ecological fisheries, the book describes how, in Chile, indiscriminate harvest of the edible shellfish Concholepas ... Read more

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  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    by Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Forest Governance by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. An Opportunity for Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them. These territories contain about a third of the continent's forests. That's 14% of the carbon stored in tropical ... Read more

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  • Management in Latin America

    Threats and Opportunities in the Globalized World

    by Paulo Roberto Feldmann ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The aim of this book is to analyze the quality of entrepreneurial management and economic development in the Latin American region from a microeconomic point of view. It seeks to explain the Latin American way of business management as well as envision ways in which Latin American businesses can increase productivity and innovation in order to successfully compete in the global market.Latin ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World

    Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics

    by Gregory M. Thaler ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalismFor two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land by preventing forest clearing for agricultural expansion, has dominated tropical forest conservation. Land sparing policies transform landscapes and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru

    by Astrid B. Stensrud ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of climate change and extractivist neoliberal policies – including Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), a global paradigm that views water as a finite resource in need of management.Engaging with the many different ... Read more

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