Debate on Amazon Road Development at Yale

A debate on road development in the Amazon will take place on Saturday, February 17, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. The forum will examine whether development facilitates deforestation and illegal logging or whether it stimulates conservation efforts; whether it instigates social conflict by displacing indigenous groups or provides market access to economic goods for rural communities; and whether it promotes jobs and local economic development or only favors the trade interests of large-scale timber and soy producers.