The Amazon rainforest is a vital carbon reservoir and climate regulator, and yet global demands on its natural resources are leading to irreversible environmental damage, impacting the planet's water cycle, climate, and food security. How to balance the interests of the eight Amazon basin states with these global environmental concerns, and the ancestral rights of the over 400 indigenous peoples that live there? Building on fieldwork in Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador, this book provides a novel multi-scalar and multi-sectoral analysis of the Amazon. In doing so, it argues that the current governance of the Amazon exhibits the policy failures of polycentricity, with different authorities developing localised environmental initiatives with weak coordination. It sets out a policy paradigm shift to plurinational governance, that incorporates indigenous peoples and conservation scientists in international decision-making. This book will interest academics of environmental law, politics and governance, and policymakers and practitioners involved in global environmental governance in general and international commons and the Amazonian region in particular.
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Innovative analysis of the international governance of the Amazon, exposing the potentials of incorporating more democratic governance institutions for international rainforests and global commons.
1. Introduction;
2. The Amazon as an International Commons: Governing
Principles for Negotiating Sovereignty and Environmental Imaginaries;
3. The
Amazon as a Place of Global Extractivism: Rethinking Extractivism and
Infrastructure in Extractive Frontiers;
4. The Amazon as a Place for Global
Conservation;
5. Envisioning a Plurinational Governance for the Amazon;
6.
Envisioning a Pluriversal Environmental Governance: Scientific and Indigenous
Ontologies in the Amazon;
7. Conclusions.
Roger Merino is Associate Professor at the Public Management School, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). He is a Research Associate at University of Georgia's Center for Integrative Conservation Research, former Visiting Scholar at the Harvard's Institute for Global Law and Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Policy Sciences (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and master degrees in International Policy and Comparative Law. He is a prolific author of research articles, book chapters, and a monograph on issues of political ecology, environmental governance, human rights, and international environmental law.
