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The Role Of The State, Multinational Oil Companies, International Law & The International Community: Intersection Of Human Rights & Environmental Degradation Climate Change In The 21st Century Caused By Traditional Extractive Practices, The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous People And Universal Jurisdiction To Resolve The Accountability Issue, Marcela Cabrera Luna

Master's Theses

Local, national and international conventions that protect indigenous sovereignty and their territories, where many of the resources are extracted from by multinational corporations (MNCs) particularly oil, the number one commodity of the world and cause of climate change, continue to be jeopardized because of the lack of a clear international legal framework that can protect them and potentially hold multinationals accountable for their actions. These practices are causing not only environmental issues to the indigenous and surrounding communities, but climate change is in fact, the real human rights issue of the 21^st century and it affects everyone. By using …

The Bullies On The Block: What's Killing Secondhand Bookstores?, Kristen Stedman

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

Reading is idolized in our society. Being a book-lover is a trait that many, including myself, share. Yet, all over the world, independent bookstores are dying due to the rise of Amazon, the pressure of gentrification, and the prevalence of supermarket bookstores. Independent bookstores are of immense cultural significance to us as close-knit, welcoming communities of concentrated creativity, emphasizing the need to be concerned over their diminishing numbers. The factors causing their plight are researched through scholarly sources and then further explored through variety of interviews- with the shop owner, with people who choose to frequent independent bookstores, and with …

The Amazon In Brazilian Speculative Fiction: Utopia And Trauma, M. Elizabeth Ginway

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

There are two key moments when the Amazon is used as the setting for Brazilian science fiction, both during periods of dictatorship in the twentieth century. The first takes place during the authoritarian government of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945), the second after the decades-long push for modernization and technological change imposed by the military government from 1964 to 1985. My study shows that, for writers of the first half of the twentieth century, the Amazon is a place of adventure, a setting for stories whose imaginative events ignore the region’s anthropology, history and indigenous cultures. Among the early Brazilian Amazonian adventure …

The Volta Grande Do Xingu: Reconstruction Of Past Environments And Forecasting Of Future Scenarios Of A Unique Amazonian Fluvial Landscape, A. O. Sawakuchi, G. A. Hartmann, H. O. Sawakuchi, F. N. Pupim, D. J. Bertassoli, M. Parra, J. L. Antinao, L. M. Sousa, M. H. Sabaj Pérez, P. E. Oliveira, R. A. Santos, J. F. Savian, C. H. Grohmann, V. B. Medeiros, Michael M. Mcglue, D. C. Bicudo, S. B. Faustino

Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications

The Xingu River is a large clearwater river in eastern Amazonia and its downstream sector, known as the Volta Grande do Xingu (“Xingu Great Bend”), is a unique fluvial landscape that plays an important role in the biodiversity, biogeochemistry and prehistoric and historic peopling of Amazonia. The sedimentary dynamics of the Xingu River in the Volta Grande and its downstream sector will be shifted in the next few years due to the construction of dams associated with the Belo Monte hydropower project. Impacts on river biodiversity and carbon cycling are anticipated, especially due to likely changes in sedimentation and riverbed …

Cloudy With A Chance Of Sunshine, Or The Future Of Magazine Publishing, George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

EIC George K. Thiruvathukal describes how the cloud can revolutionize printing and how the publishing world in particular can benefit.

Transfer Pricing Rules And State Aid, Richard Lyal

Fordham International Law Journal

The purpose of this Essay is to place in context the four investigations currently open in relation to tax rulings on transfer pricing and to explore the manner in which proceedings of this kind may serve to correct abuses in international taxation practice.

Performing Transformation In The Community University Of The Rivers (Part 2), Dan Baron Cohen

Journal of Urban Culture Research

In this two-part article, I seek to present our emerging Community University of the Rivers through the languages of storytelling (poetry, song, image and theatre) to bring to life the context and pedagogy of Transformance in action, in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (Portuguese: Dry Hair), founding community of Marabá city, Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. I use this strategy to ensure that you meet and might identify with my collaborators in our Community University of the Rivers, as living subjects. By privileging human narration, I do not mean to privilege action over reflction, as our dramatic performances and …

Performance Analysis Of A Distributed Key System Broken Up Over Multiple Nodes Across The Amazon Web Service (Aws) Cloud, Erich P. Rice

Culminating Projects in Information Assurance

The advent of cloud computing has decreased the cost of enterprise level system design and implementation, while at the same time increasing the need for a sound and secure strategy for security. The use of encryption algorithms continues to be the main line of defense in performing secure data transmissions, the use of a Cloud Computing environment offers both advantages and disadvantages in the encryption process.

Though the new series of encryption algorithms are quite robust, they require a “key” to make their use unique for an individual session, thus if the key is compromised then the underlying encryption algorithm …

Flipkart On The Way To Become Indias Amazon: Did It Take A Wrong Move, Roopesh Rao, Shivani Singh Chandel

Journal of Emerging Technologies and Business Management

Flipkart. com, an e-retailer was established in 2007, when e-retailing in lndia was at a nascent stage. Since its inception Flipkart introduced several innovations and went on to become one of the largest players in the industry. The case discusses the price war and the competitors of F lipkart. It also highlights the_/lipkarts inception, growth, expansion and development and the competitive strategies it is following to become a name to reckon with in the Indian e-retail industry. Flipkart made eyebrows rise by announcing its $1 billion round of funding. Within just 24 hours Amazon trying to take the limelight away …

Gold Mining And Unequal Exchange In Western Amazonia: A Theoretical Photo Essay, Gordon L. Ulmer

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

I combine fieldwork photography and ethnographic documentation of gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, to examine the localized material, social, environmental, and health outcomes of the global gold boom. This 'theoretical photo essay’ examines how local and global forces coalesce around gold mining and influence peoples and environments in Western Amazonia. I use embodiment theory in anthropology, ecological economics, and theories of underdevelopment to understand local consequences of the global gold trade and to elucidate how opulence and the machinations of capital accumulation in economic centers of the world occur at the expense of human lives and environments in …

An Emerging Alliance Of Ranchers And Farmers In The Brazilian Amazon, Ryan Thomas Adams

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

Musical Body Of The Universe: Unity And Multiplicity In The Spiritualized Cosmos Of The Hohodene, Robin M. Wright

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

Being And Becoming: On Conditions Of Existence In The Amazon, Dan Rosengren

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

Misty Morning In The Amazon, Megan E. Zagorski

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Infestation Of Aetalion Reticulatum (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Aethalionidae) In Plants Of Euterpe Oleracea Martius (Arecaceae) In Acre State, Brazil, Rodrigo Souza Santos Rss

Rodrigo Souza Santos RSS

The açai palm (Euterpe oleracea Martius) is a native palm tree from the Amazon region floodplains and may be indicated as the most economically profitable species of this genus. Its fruit pulp is extracted and widely consumed by the population of northern Brazil in several ways. With the expansion of the planted area many factors may affect the production and limit the cultivation, highlighting the occurrence of insect pests that cause losses in production. This report presents the first occurrence of the leafhopper Aetalion reticulatum (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Aethalionidae) in E. oleracea plants. The occurrence of this insect associated with …

Spatial Patterns Of Raised Fields And Linguistic Diversity In Mojos, Beni, Bolivia, Elimarie Garcia-Cosme

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Throughout Amazonia, earthworks are found in areas of diverse linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. The distribution of these earthworks within various linguistic and ethnic areas suggests a multiethnic or multilinguistic network, in which interaction between these diverse groups occurred, creating diverse communities. Movement and communication within Amazonia along river networks allowed for this interaction. Interaction between groups in Amazonia may have also influenced the different methods of landscape modification. This thesis presents a GIS-based spatial analysis of raised fields, a type of agricultural earthwork found throughout the Llanos de Mojos (Mojos), located in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The distribution of …

Performing Transformation In The Community University Of The Rivers (Part 1), Dan Baron Cohen

Journal of Urban Culture Research

In this two-part article, I seek to present our emerging Community University of the Rivers through the languages of storytelling (poetry, song, image and theatre) to bring to life the context and pedagogy of Transformance in action, in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (Portuguese: Dry Hair), founding community of Marabá city, Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. I use this strategy to ensure that you meet and might identify with my collaborators in our Community University of the Rivers, as living subjects. By privileging human narration, I do not mean to the privilege action over reaction, as our dramatic performance …

"For The Good Of The King's Vassals" Francisco Xavier De Mendonca Furtado And The Portuguese Amazon, 1751-1759, Lucas Richardson

Theses and Dissertations--History

In the middle of the eighteenth century the Portuguese crown, under the influence of the Marquis of Pombal, sought to reform the political administration of its vast set of imperial holdings. As part of these reforms, in 1751 Pombal sent his brother, Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado, to the Portuguese Amazon to serve as governor of the state of Grão Pará and Maranhão. This study explores Furtado’s tenure as governor of the Amazon from his perspective, in an attempt to understand how and why he arrived at a set of policies known as the “Directorate,” which overhauled the region’s mission …