Introduction -- A Market Approach -- Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach -- On the Edge of Climate Change: In a Search of an Adequate Agent-Based Methodology to Model Environmental Dynamics -- Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Empirical...

"Amazonia and adjacent lands have tremendous environmental variations, and approaches to the sustainable management of these fragile lands must be different. Geographers Hiraoka, Nishizawa, Sternberg, and Yagasaki have important contributions among the 14 articles"--Handbook of Latin American...