Economy and Sustainability in Amazonia

In the first part, the book draws a parallel between the ideals of sustainability advocated around the world and the actions taken in Brazil and the Amazon to achieve this sustainability. In the second part, it analyses the environmental management process carried out in the Amazon and Acre, as well as its importance in overcoming the challenge of fostering economic growth without compromising the region's ecological sustainability. It points to the commercial exploitation of forest biodiversity as the main natural productive vocation of the Amazon as an inexorable way out. In the third and final part, it discusses and proposes the formation of a political pact to promote the Amazon's greatest competitive advantage: forest biodiversity.

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Winner of the Samuel Benchimol Award/2008 and the Banco da Amazônia Award for Conscious Entrepreneurship/2011, Ecio Rodrigues is a forestry engineer with a PhD in Sustainable Development. Aurisa Paiva is a lawyer with a specialisation in Environmental Management. They are the authors of books and articles on the economic use of forest biodiversity in the Amazon.