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This commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; and the failure of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to establish long-term forest conservation policies in the region. The research demonstrates that the 'savannisation hypothesis' is potentially closer to reality than most debates in the social sciences assume and should be considered seriously. The commentary concludes by suggesting possible pathways for preventing the dieback of the Amazon. These are based on three strategic axes: the strengthening of the ACTO, the promotion of a technological revolution in the forest, and a progressive environmental diplomacy by the Amazonian countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For many people throughout much of the world today, the terms ".Amazon" and "rain forest" are synonymous-- indeed, it seems as if the two must have always intertwined. However, while this much-invoked realm of shimmering, fragile nature, together with its ferocious jungle alter ego, does have deep roots in the past, its present-day incarnation has much to do with the global environmental movement that began emerging in the 1960s and has continued to morph over time. This article examines contemporary representations of the Amazon with an eye to what is now changing, as well as why. It underscores the key role that these depictions play in shaping policy, which gives them an importance far transcending purely narrative concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the United Nations conference on environment and development, signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, which obliges the signatory States to combat the extinction of species throughout the world. Its executive secretary said: "the services that nature offers us are free, but the man has a deep unconscious of what he represents their destruction [...] If humanity does not brake to the degradation of biodiversity, the legacy for future generations will be mortgaged [...] must have the courage to look our children in the eye and admit failure [...] admit that we continue losing biodiversity at an unprecedented pace, we are mortgaging their future". Words that initialed by premonitions future about the treatment of the extinction of a large part of the existing biodiversity, that if we do not a treatment, their destruction would speed up and we would be going against the new scheme of sustainable development. In this paper, I analyze and discuss from the perspective of social rights, environmental, and economic, compliance with subparagraphs (c) and (d) of article 10 of the said convention in the native communities of the Peruvian Amazon, an area of permanent armed con ict between the Peruvian State and the native communities. The work consists of six parts. The first explains the legal framework and jurisprudence; the second covers the methodology, and will draw attention to the method and the approach of hypotheses; the third the theoretical framework, the geographical framework and the gathering of information; The fourth on analysis and interpretation; in the fifth set out an analogy with some of the results of the European Union and countries of south America; in the sixth part formulates some conclusions and new perspectives for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the role and responses of Amazonian countries to the international politics of environment. Emergence of the global environment as one of the most important issues on the international agenda in the post-Cold War era; Environmental problems produced by the increase in economic activity; Environmental issues in Latin America; Oil and gas development in the Amazon rainforest; Large-scale deforestation and environmental degradation in the region; Internal factors that resulted in Latin America having a changed perception towards environment in general and Amazon in particular.

Uses the Brazilian situation as a starting point in discussing the First World's role in environmental protection. Socio-economic conditions in Brazil; Destruction of the Amazon ecosystem and its effects; Argument on the extent of rich and poor countries' responsibilities in environmental conservation efforts.

Discusses the need for protection of the Amazon Basin Rainforests, the home of one-half of the world's remaining tropical forests. Consideration of international programs to help preserve the forests; Focus on global environmental systems that are essential for the habitability of the planet; Link between vegetation and climate; Role of the tropics in a global climate; Importance of sustaining good standards of living for generations to come by conserving the environment; Investigation of the consequences of three extreme scenarios for the Amazon in the future.