Pecologix Political Ecology Blotter

[RIO DE JANEIRO] Brazil’s Paiter Suruí community has become the first indigenous group in the country to receive international certification to sell carbon credits in return for protecting and restoring forests in their Amazonian territory.The Suruí community, which numbers around 1300 people, was first contacted by outsiders in 1968. Over the past decade, with assistance [...]

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2012.00416.x

Many of the world’s fish stocks are depleted as a result of overexploitation, pollution and habitat loss. The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) sets a target for fisheries to maintain or restore stocks to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by 2015. We assessed the global stock status and found [...]

The study explores the relationship between transportation and development in the East Africa and Indian Ocean (EAIO) region. A positive link between development, defined in terms of gross national income per capita (GNI/cap), and transportation, operationalized in terms of the different major forms of transport infrastructure in the study region, is hypothesized. Multiple regression involving [...]

This review is an updated and expanded version of the three prior reviews that were published in this journal in 1997, 2003, and 2007. In the case of all approved therapeutic agents, the time frame has been extended to cover the 30 years from January 1, 1981, to December 31, 2010, for all diseases worldwide, [...]

In the US there seems to be a perennial battle over taxation. Who should be taxed? What should be taxed? How much? Every point of view on this subject is tinged with a heavy self-interested bias. I now ask the question, ‘what is the ecological approach to taxation?’ I propose that the emphasis of taxation [...]

The Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF) — has announced its first beneficiary: a projectexploring Panama’s natural resources for use in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. The Nagoya Protocol was agreed in October 2010 by 193 countries to tackle biopiracy and share the benefits of research into natural resources in an equitable manner. The NPIF was set [...]