Essays about: "Amazon rainforest"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Amazon rainforest.

1. 1. To Keep the Forest Standing: Analyzing Proposals to Safeguard the Brazilian Amazon Through Mandatory Due Diligence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Amanda Oliveira; [2023]
   Keywords : International Law; Human Rights; Due Diligence; Amazon Forest; Responsible Business; Livestock; Beef Industry; Deforestation; Environmental Law.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Brazilian state has failed to protect the Amazon rainforest, its biodiversity, and its forest-dependent population. Scientific evidence proves the vital importance of the Amazon biome for life on Earth, as well as its crucial role in maintaining global climate balance. Recently, deforestation rates in Brazil have skyrocketed. READ MORE

3. 2. Women’s Resistance Against Extractivism in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Decolonial Ecofeminist Study of the Collective Mujeres Amazónicas

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alejandra Romoleroux Grijalva; [2022]
   Keywords : Amazonian Women; socio-environmental resistance; extractivism; decolonial ecofeminism; territory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In response to the substantial expansion of the extractive frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous women have positioned themselves at the forefront of the struggle. In this context, the grassroots collective Mujeres Amazónicas has become a crucial political actor in the defense of indigenous territories and the multiple forms of life inside the rainforest, using numerous resistance dynamics and practices in private and public spheres. READ MORE

4. 3. Sustainable Cattle Production in Brazil - The Agricultural Innovation System of Integrated Livestock Systems in Mato Grosso State

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Mads Stub Pullich; [2021]
   Keywords : Agricultural Innovation System; Deforestation; Sustainable Agriculture; Integrated Livestock Systems; Brazil; Mato Grosso; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The precarious state of affairs in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, particularly in Mato Grosso, where unsustainable cattle ranching is driving the deforestation. Brazil needs to invest in sustainable development of its cattle production. READ MORE

5. 4. Peace with the environment: Community perspectives from the Andean-Amazon foothills of Colombia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Lorenz Rodrigo Peh; [2021]
   Keywords : Buen vivir; Caquetá; Colombia; community perspectives; conflict; environment; environmental peacebuilding; participatory methods; peace; social ecology; visual methods; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Half a decade after the signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, the country continues to suffer from persisting violence and the need to address environmental destruction is more evident than ever. This research builds on a post-development critique of current peace efforts and responds to the call for including local perspectives in knowledge creation and development practice. READ MORE

6. 5. Political leaders' motives to action : An analysis of Jair Bolsonaro's and Emmanuel Macron's motives in the Amazon rainforest fires

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Sofia Kjellin; [2020]
   Keywords : Political leadership; rational choice; political psychology; motives; actions; Jair Bolsonaro; Emmanuel Macron; the Amazon rainforest;

   Abstract : This study seeks to explain political leaders' motives to action, by studying how Jair Bolsonaro and Emmanuel Macron have acted in the matter of the fires in the Amazon rainforest. It is assumed that while political leaders may try to act rationally, they are influenced by psychological factors in terms of educational background and style. READ MORE