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Environmentalism and International Law - Considering "Asphalt and the jungle"
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Teong Yi Heong (Jet) U021202J Environmentalism and International Law Considering "Asphalt and the jungle" The Brazilian government, under military rule, initiated an ambitious plan to improve on the country's infrastructure and to jumpstart the economy in the 1970s. The "National Integration Plan" (Plano de Integraçao Nacional) entailed building roads and highways through the Amazon River, and resettling population into cleared land on either side of the roads. The plan had "both the assistance of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United States Agency for International Development and other international lending agencies, and the active participation of transnational corporations and national entrepreneurs". (Pallemaerts 1986: 374) Thirty years on, an article "Asphalt and the jungle" in July 24, 2004 issue of the Economist reports on the Brazilian government's proposal to pave a highway, BR-163, cutting across the Amazon from Cuiaba to Santarem. The road project is Brazil's bid to...
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