Climate- New Mexico to the Amazon

Resources and References

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NM Climate Change and the Hadley Cycle

  • William deBuys, A Great Aridness – Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, Oxford University Press, 2011

  • R Seager, Science 316:1181 (2007)
    DJ Seidel ; Nature Geoscience1 (1): 21–4. doi:10.3038/ngeo.2007.38.

  • C Johanson, J. of Climate Vol 22, p2713 2009

Yasuni ITT project, Biodiversity and REDD program

  • Finer et al, PLoS ONE 3:8:e2932 (2008)

  • Fire in Amazon and REDD Science 328:1275 (2010)
    Trees or Oil, The Economist July 2, 2009

  • Hoorn, C et. al. Science 330:927 Nov 12, 2010
    A two-page summary and in-depth fact sheets about REDD+: www.ucsusa.org/REDD

Carbon Sequestration by Tropical Forests

  • Malhi, et al, Science 319:169 (2008)

  • Nature Climate Change 2, 182-185 (2012) doi:10.1038/nmclimate1354

Rainforest Cultures

  • The Achuars’ Kapawi Ecolodge http://www.kapawi.com

  • Spears of Twilight- Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle (1993), Philippe Descola

  • Amazon Beaming, Petru Popescu (1991) – Uncontacted Amazonian tribal customs and lifeways

Correa’s Ecuador – Oil Concessions, Debt, Politics

  • PLoS ONE 3:8:e2932 Aug 5, 2008; Sawyer S (2004)

  • Crude Chronicles: Indigenous politics, multinational oil, and neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham: Duke University Press

  • The Economist, Oil in Ecuador – It’s hard to be green. Correa gets away with a U-Turn Sep 28, 2013 (print edition)

  • The Economist, Oil, Ecuador and The Economist – A volcano erupts. Rafael Correa lambasts us and “the empire of capital”, Oct 12, 2013 (print edition)

Amazon Deforestation, Drought

  • Malhi et. al. Science 319:169 (2008)

  • SL Lewis et. al, Science 331:554 (2011)

Ecuadorian Environmental Legal Cases

Rights of Nature

The Pachamama Alliance