International Environmental Law Research Guide
Research Sources Deforestation in the Amazon
Introduction to Research Guides
Selected Articles and Other Information Sources
Al Zachary Lazarus, A War Worth Fighting: the Ongoing Battle to Save the Brazilian Amazon, 9 Law and Business Review of the Americas 399 (2003)
Christina Schwansee Romano, Brazilian Government Policies towards the Amazon Rain Forest: from a Developmental Ideology to an Environmental Consciousness? 1998 Colo. J. Int’l. & Pol’y. 65 (1998) [Print resource: MSU Law library]
Jacqueline Klosek, note, The Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon: an International Problem, 6 Cardozo J. Int’l. & Comp. L. 119 (1998) [Print resource: MSU Law library and available electronically through HeinOnline]
Erin B. Newman, Earth’s Vanishing Medicine Cabinet: Rain Forest Destruction and its Impact on the Pharmaceutical Industry, 20 Am. J. L. & Med. 479 (1994) [Print resource: MSU Law library and available electronically through MAGIC]
Emilio F. Moran, The Law, Politics, and Economics of Amazonian Deforestation, 1 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 397 (1993-1994) [Print resource: MSU Law library and available electronically through MAGIC]
Sergio Margulis, Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon [Print resource: MSU Main library, Call # HG 3881.5.W57 W67, no. 28 (2004)]
International Organizations
FAO Forestry Page Country Profiles - Brazil
http://www.fao.org/forestry/18308/en/bra/
NGOs
Amazon Watch
http://www.amazonwatch.org/
World Bank/World Wildlife Fund Alliance Brazilian Amazon
http://www.gefweb.org/Outreach/Media/Press_Releases/080902ARPA_-_English.doc
World Bank/World Wildlife Fund Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/globalmarkets/forests/WWFBinaryitem7334.pdf
Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/
campaigns/forests/amazon
World Bank Rainforest Trust Fund
http://www.worldbank.org/rfpp/docs/resolution.htm
Brazilian Information
Brazilian Embassy Amazon information
http://www.brasilemb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=111
Brazilian Embassy Environment Links
http://www.brasilemb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=112
Legal Framework
Treaties and Conventions
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994
http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/texts/ITTA.1994.txt.html
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development ( Rio 1992)
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm
Statement of Principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-3annex3.htm
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992)
http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/2627.php
Text of the Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf
Kyoto Protocol
http://unfccc.int/essential_background/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
Text of the Kyoto Protocol
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.pdf
Agenda 21 – comprehensive plan of action
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/agenda21toc.htm
Domestic Legislation and Programs
United States
Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, 21 U.S.C. §2151
House of Representatives Report on reauthorization
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_reports&docid=f:hr603.108.pdf
USAID Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/environment/forestry/intro_eai.html
Brazil
http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/30815/en/bra
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