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This chapter systematically spells out the historical, political, and economic fuels of the massive deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon, focusing on enforcement in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s largest and most eco-diverse department (state), which for the past 10 years has also been the country’s primary battleground of political control as well as its engine of export-led economic growth. With a case study of a major Forest Reserve in Santa Cruz, this chapter examines the efforts to create a functioning system of enforcement, without adequate authority or autonomy, under these enormous ecological and economic pressures.
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Zamora, M.A.R. (2018). Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon: The Case of the El Choré Forest Reserve in Santa Cruz Department. In: Ungar , M. (eds) The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56552-1_3
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