| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) |
| Summary |
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, pollution, dams and other forms of ecocide. In every country, environmental protection is crippled by politics, bureaucracy, untrained officials, small budgets, regional rivalries, collusion with criminals, and the global demand for oils and minerals. Countries are better at creating environmental agencies, that is, than making sure they work. This book explains why, with country studies written by those on the front lines - from national enforcement directors to biologists and activists |
| Notes |
"Water, Energy, and Infrastructure." |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319565521 |
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3319565524 |
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