Sustainability and Social Justice
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Large-scale access and energy infrastructure projects, together with expanding investments in natural resource extraction, pose significant challenges to biodiversity conservation, forest cover, and the defence of forest peoples' rights and livelihoods across the wider Amazon region. Following a period in which safeguards and forest dwellers' territorial rights were strengthened under more permissive political opportunity structures, the current period has been characterized by efforts to weaken these protections and to facilitate large-scale private investment in previously protected lands. We describe these investment-based threats to forests and rights, and the nature of regulatory rollbacks in the region. We then discuss some of the ways in which social movement actors have responded to these pressures and the extent to which they have affected the policies driving these pressures on forests and rights. While in prior decades movements were able to exercise mediated influence on policy, at present the channels open to them are mostly indirect, though opportunities for collaboration between movements organizations and rights-defending government agencies do emerge periodically offering channels for mediated influence.
Publication Title
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Issue
106
First Page
183
Last Page
208
ISSN
0924-0608
DOI
10.32992/erlacs.10414
Keywords
Andes-Amazon, Brazil, forests, Indigenous lands, social movements
Repository Citation
Bebbington, Denise Humphreys; Verdum, Ricardo; Gamboa, Cesar; and Bebbington, Anthony, "The Infrastructure-Extractives-Resource Governance Complex in the Pan-Amazon: Roll backs and Contestations" (2018). Sustainability and Social Justice. 28.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/28
