The Palgrave Handbook on the International Relations of the Amazon

Christoffer Guldberg, Thomas Froehlich, Thais Tartalha do Nascimento Lombardi, Ana Flávia Granja e Barros (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-14708-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This handbook reframes the Amazon Rainforest as central to international relations. With contributions from a diverse group of authors, it shows how political, social and economic forces both endanger the forest and open real pathways to protect it. Chapters examine the bioeconomy; cross-border and narco-deforestation; land grabbing and gold laundering; forest carbon projects (REDD+); Indigenous and riverine rights and governance (including ILO Convention 169); Amazonian cities; China s role; the EU Deforestation Regulation; and carbon markets. Using decolonising, participatory and visual methods alongside grounded fieldwork, case studies and conceptual chapters, we connect law, culture, power, ecology and economy across local, regional and global scales. Written in accessible language, this handbook bridges scholarship and practice for researchers, students, journalists and policymakers interested in geopolitics, climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, development, security and governance in the Amazon to clearly refuse determinism and offer fresh analytical tools and practical policy options for the Pan-Amazonian region.

Autor

Christoffer Guldberg, teaches at King s College London focusing on Brazil and the Global South. He holds a joint PhD (KCL USP) and has published in Critical African Studies (2024), the Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (2022), and King s Blogs on research and teaching methods, artificial intelligence, state violence and disinformation.

 

Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau is an International Relations professor at the University of Brasilia and Superior Defence College (ESD). She is the former director of the Brasilia Research Centre (2019-2024) for the Earth System Governance network.

 

Thais Tartalha do Nascimento Lombardi is a Territorial Planning assistant professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) and of Social Science at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Her main research is on impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects, Agrarian dynamics and co-production of tools and knowledge for sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon.

 

Thomas M. Froehlich is a research fellow at King s College London where he works on the global energy transition, natural resource governance, and international relations. His research explores how climate and industrial policies shape extractive economies and the geopolitics of sustainability, with a regional focus on the Americas and the European Union.

Inhalt

Part I Amazonian Foundations: Ecology, Basin Governance, and Risk.- The Amazon and Antarctica: Liaisons Dangereuses?.- The Global Importance of the Amazon Basin.- Governance of the Amazon River Basin: Challenges, Limits, and Perspectives for Sustainability.- Amazon Rainforest Degradation and Climate Change: A Combination with Protopandemic Potential.- Part II Histories and Sovereignties: From Forts to Bolsonaro.- International Amazonian Tensions: The Joint Boundary Commission (Brazil-Peru, 1904-1905) and Euclides da Cunha s Report.- The military and the advocacy towards a sovereignty-led foreign policy.- Territorial Policies for the Amazon Region: From Portuguese Fortifications to Socio-Environmental Challenges.- The Amazon in Brazilian Military Thought.- Part III Narratives and Imaginaries: Security, Media, and Myth.- War on the Amazon - Hybrid War and the Militarisation of Politics in Brazil.- Understanding Security in the Amazon.- Geopolitical Narratives of the Amazon: Policy, Intellectual Visions, and Media Influence in Modern Brazil.- Amazonia as White Man s Burden.- Many Worlds, many Amazons: antagonizing conceptions of development and the post-2030 Agenda.- International Claims over the Amazon: Conspiracy Theory, Populism, and Reactionism during the Government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).- Challenging Imaginaries of the Brazilian Amazon: mobility, indigenous people and the production of the Amazonian space.- Part IV Indigenous Rights, Knowledge, and Resistance.- The Pan-Amazon Region and the Urgent Call of Andean-Amazonian Indigenous Communities to the World: Onto-ecological Scenarios in the Political-Spiritual Sphere Amidst Climate Change.- Intercultural and Interspecies Bioclimatic Agreements in the Amazon: The Macroterritory of the Jaguars of Yuruparí and the Indigenous Territorial Entities in Colombia.- Amazon in Danger: Convergence of Threats and Indigenous Strategies of Resistance.- Bridging Divides and Negotiating Divergences: An Intercultural, Respectful Methodology with Amazonian Indigenous People.- Amazonian Territories and International Law: The ILO Convention 169 in Ecuador.- Indigenous Movements and Socioterritorial Engagements for the Brazilian Amazon.- REDD+ and the Paradox of Autonomy: climate colonialism and Indigenous self-determination in the Amazon.- Part V Political Contestation and Criminal Economies.- Narco-Deforestation: How Drug Trafficking Fuels the Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest.- From Land Dispossession to Land Grabbing: The Dual Exploitation of Strategic Multimodal Networks in the Colombian Amazon.- Socioenvironmental Conflicts and Transnational Spatialities in the Brazilian Amazon.- Global organised crime and extractive industries in the Amazon: the impact of narco-trafficking cartels on Indigenous land and environment defenders.- Transnational Criminal Organizations in the Amazon: Social and Environmental Impacts in Borders and Riverine Communities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2026
• Zusatzinfo: Approx. 900 p. 60 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Amazon Rainforest and Climate Change • Amazon Rainforest and Geopolitics • Environmental Policy in the Amazon • Indigenous Rights in the Amazon • International Relations of the Amazon • Political Economy of the Amazon
• ISBN-10: 3-032-14708-5 / 3032147085
• ISBN-13: 978-3-032-14708-0 / 9783032147080
• Zustand: Neuware