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D3E CLAES promotes sustainable development and the conservation of natural resources through research and advocacy in critical issues, and we support local environmental groups. Furthermore, we publish regularly analyses about latest news related to environmental issues. 

Deforestation in the Amazon: Pressures and outlook
    At the end of last year, the Brazilian government released the news that the deforestation rate in the Amazon was down for the second consecutive year, reaching the lowest levels in a decade. In this analysis of the state of the Amazon, Diego Martino considers whether this is a cause for optimism (PDF). MORE

Knowledge, trade and environment
    CLAES’ Director, Eduardo Gudynas, gave one of the two key plenary lectures at the Knowledge, Policy, Environments and Publics in Globalizing Latin America conference recently organized by the North Carolina and Duke universities. In his presentation, he warned about the changes in political structures and processes that have been generated by the wave of neoliberal reforms, and highlighted the continued dependence of Latin American economies on the exploitation of natural resources. MORE

CLAES is new coordinator of key section of the Global Environmental Outlook
    Diego Martino, senior researcher at CLAES, is the new coordinator lead author of the section on environmental policies of the GEO (Global Environmental Outlook Report) that will be published by UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program). Diego Martino will be coordinating chapter 1 in which the links between environmental change and human well being will be highlighted and the state of the environment and policy options are introduced. MORE

CLAES has joined the Alliance for Zero Extinction
    The alliance is a global initiative of organizations looking to prevent extinctions by identifying key global sites holding species in critical danger of become extinct. The alliance works on the elimination of threats and habitat restoration. MORE

Latin American Network on Social Ecology new website
    The Latin American and Caribbean network on social ecology, coordinated by CLAES, presented its new website. The network was launched in 1989, and has a membership of around 1000 people active in diverse fields, like environmental education or scholar research on human ecology. The network maintains an electronic bulletin and a digital library of documents. MORE
 

Global Environmental Outlook (GEO)
  CLAES D3E is a "collaborating center" of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), responsible for the preparation of the annual overview of the state of the environment in Latin America, published in the "GEO Yearbook". Furthermore, the center is active in the GEO process of Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). MORE

Environment and sustainability in Amazonia
  D3E CLAES assisted in the preparation and realization of capacity-building seminars for local politicians from Amazonia, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES) within their "Sustainable Amazonia" Project. The seminars were held during 2001-2004 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for "Amazonians", local political leaders, from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. MORE

Conservation and natural resources
  CLAES D3E promotes a regional approach to the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. The center has been studying conservation strategies since its foundation in 1998 at continental scale, particularly in the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), following a "bioregional" approach. MORE

A textbook on sustainable development
  "Ecology, economics and ethics of sustainable Development" is a guide to the different concepts and approaches on sustainability, based on recent scientific evidence and current debates in Latin America. The book, published by CLAES D3E, has been edited in several national or regional versions in Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay. MORE

 
   

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Latin American Network on Social Ecology - CLAES D3E coordinates a regional network on the relationships among humans and their environment, following the philosophy of social ecology from a Latin American perspective. The network with over 500 members promotes information on social and human ecology disciplines, environmental education, and participatory procedures to handle environmental conflicts. MORE

Coscoroba inaugurates its new series on e-books, which are available online for free. The first book is "The Social Ecology of Disaster" by José da Cruz, a manual from a Latin American perspective on social, environmental, economic and political aspects of eco-disasters. On over 160 pages the other draws on case studies from Latin America and summarizes main information in charts. MORE

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