Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
Fast-paced, complex, challenging and important.  Their analysis of the broad scale of loss and biological decline occurring in the Amazon basin, and the factors driving it, are as stunning as any I've read..–David Helvarg, from the ForewordPresents vignettes detailing the real stories people dealing with an acute environmental problem; describes the current extent and depth of the problem (and) explores the historical roots of the problem, viewed broadly..–Journal of Economic Literature, December 2003