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Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature : extractive industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Linda Etchart.

9783030815196 (electronic book)
3030815196 (electronic book)
3030815188
9783030815189

Cham : Palgrave Macmillian, 2022.

English

1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-030-81519-6 doi

KHK2216.S55 E83 2022

342.8660872

This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the worlds remaining rainforests. Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the worlds wild places for the maintenance of ecosystems and the prevention of climate change. The Amazonian/Andean indigenous philosophies of sumac kawsay/suma qamana (buen vivir) were the inspiration for the incorporation of the Rights of Nature into the Ecuadorian and Bolivian constitutions of 2008 and 2009. Yet despite the creation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2000), and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), indigenous peoples have been marginalized from intergovernmental environmental negotiations. Indigenous environment protectors lives are in danger while the Amazon rainforests continue to burn. By the third decade of the 21st century, the dawn of woke capitalism was accompanied by the expansion of ethical investment, with BlackRock leading the field in the greening of investment management, while Big Oil sought a career change in sustainable energy production. The final chapters explain the confluence of forces that has resulted in the continued expansion of the extractive frontier into indigenous territory in the Amazon, including areas occupied by peoples living in voluntary isolation. Among these forces are legal and extracurricular payments made to individuals, within indigenous communities and in state entities, and the use of tax havens to deposit unofficial payments made to secure public contracts. Solutions to loss of biodiversity and climate change may be found as much in the transformation of global financial and tax systems in terms of transparency and accountability, as in efforts by states, intergovernmental institutions and private foundations to protect wild areas through the designation of national parks, through climate finance, and other sustainable investment strategies. Linda Etchart is a lecturer in Human Geography at Kingston University, UK. She has published work on conflict transformation, transnational womens peace movements, and indigenous environmental activism.

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