This paper looks at Amazon as a global corporation and elaborates on how the company manages executive pay, immigration issues and controls sustainable supply chains. When Amazon started as a book store under the leadership of Jeff Bezos, it was unknown that the company would soon expand to such...

The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) is an initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that seeks to improve integrated landscape management and ecosystem conservation in priority areas of the Amazon in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. The...

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable, conservationist measures will be ineffective to protect...

Understanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects biomass and hydroelectricity development in that...