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... in deforestation in the state and elsewhere in the Amazon. It also highlights the continued expansion of green capitalism in many parts of the world. In this, the afterword is a mediation on the entanglement of these two trends—the simultaneous expansion of deforestation (and other climate-changing activities...

... The supply-side approach taken in the War on Drugs has meant a focus on destroying drugs where they grow. It has also prompted growers to hide their activities. As a result, the War on Drugs has led to environmental harms such as excessive pesticide use, deforestation, and pollution, including...

... official policies favoring deforestation. In Michoacán, where avocado plantations began to replace forests, rural people mobilized and undermined state forestry. In Chihuahua, neoliberalism did so, though not before the World Bank proposed one final mega-project in the Sierra Tarahumara. By the 1990s...

... such as excessive pesticide use, deforestation, and pollution, including of water supplies. Marijuana has a somewhat different history of restriction in the United States than do opiates and cocaine. It was prohibited later, at the federal level. There has been more debate about its status, with some...

... to purchase timber from rural communities and provide technical assistance, but these artifacts state forestry soon became mired in bureaucracy and corruption, not to mention problems deriving from official policies favoring deforestation. In Michoacán, where avocado plantations began to replace forests...

... As international icons of conservation, elephants have been enrolled into new modes of governing land. Wildlife corridors, promoted by the state and conservation NGOs, are seen as a solution to the fragmentation of elephant habitat caused by deforestation, the expansion of infrastructure...

... capitalism that come into view through it. It also introduces the state of Acre, Brazil, which is the book’s primary ethnographic focus, and discusses the Amazon as a resource, environmental, and imaginative frontier. Amazon capitalism carbon deforestation value ...

... Neoliberalism spelled an end for state forestry and the post–World War II edifice of state-led development and highly intrusive resource management regimes. By the 2010s, Mexico’s overall rate of deforestation, which had once been the fifth highest in the world, had slowed considerably. Some...

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... uncertain land rights or measure deforestation on specific pieces of land. Instead, they attached forest carbon’s new value to labor and ecosystem services. Examining subsequent redistribution as a form of statecraft, the chapter argues that this approach engendered an environmentally premised welfare state...

... deforestation in occupied Palestine in After the Last Sky (1999); and pre-colonial-invasion erosion control in Peru. These international examples demonstrate how anxieties of erosion engage narratives of the Global North and the Global South in locally specific ways. This closing international scope reframes...

... and varying amounts of resilience to heavy human impacts. climate change resilience deforestation social memory forest ecology This chapter describes social vulnerabilities in the high-altitude zone. Due to the vagaries of colonial road building, the road to the mine was built through the high...