Governing international commons : from polycentric to plurinational governance in the Amazon / Roger Merino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merino, Roger, Author.

Series:

Transnational environmental law.

Transnational environmental law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--Amazon River Region.

Environmental law.

Environmental policy--Amazon River Region.

Environmental policy.

Environmental justice--Amazon River Region.

Environmental justice.

Environmental law, International.

Common heritage of mankind (International law).

Human rights--Amazon River Region.

Human rights.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Amazon as an International Commons : Governing principles for negotiating sovereignty and environmental imaginaries

The Amazon as a place of global extractivism : Rethinking extractivism and infrastructure in extractive frontiers

Envisioning a Plurinational Governance for the Amazon

Envisioning a Pluriversal Environmental Governance : Scientific and Indigenous Ontologies in the Amazon.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-68903-7

1-009-68907-X

9781009689052