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The Globalization of Environmental Issues and Amazonia
Deadlocks that guide the current political processes, and have the ecological sustainability paradigm as foundation, are analyzed in this chapter. Controversies and uncertainties of the twenty-first century, surrounding scientific processes and educational policies on a worldwide scale, are also dealt with. Special attention is given to ecological issue that permeates economic and scientific
