@article{824044,
      recid = {824044},
      author = {Ungar, Mark,},
      title = {The 21st century fight for the Amazon : environmental  enforcement in the world's biggest rainforest /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Mark Ungar is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn  College and the Graduate Center of the City University of  New York, USA. He is author of four books and 30  publications and is a security sector advisor for the  United Nations and Inter-American Development Bank. He has  received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center and the  Ford, Tinker, and Henkel Foundations. This book is the most  updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the  Amazon, home to half of the world's remaining tropical  forests. In the past five years, the Basin's countries have  become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement  through formation of constitutional protections, military  operations, stringent laws, police forces, judicial  procedures and societal efforts that together break through  barriers that have long restrained decisive action. Even  such advances, though, struggle to curb devastation by oil  extraction, mining, logging, dams, pollution, and other  forms of ecocide. In every country, environmental  protection is crippled by politics, bureaucracy, unclear  laws, untrained officials, small budgets, regional  rivalries, inter-ministerial competition, collusion with  criminals, and the global demand for oils and minerals.  Countries are better at creating environmental agencies,  that is, than making sure that they work. This book  explains why, with country studies written by those on the  front lines--from national enforcement directors to  biologists and activists.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/824044},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56552-1},
}