Author: Maurice Francis EganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In a Brazilian Forest
Author: Maurice Francis EganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development
Author: Luiz C. BarbosaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317577647
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region, particularly for mineral ores, soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources.
Torn from Its Foundations. from Brazilian Forests to Inquisition Cells
Author: David KerThe Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Lykke E. AndersenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521811972
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.
Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture
Author: Niels SøndergaardPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031298535
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector. This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazil’s potential role in confronting environmental problems. More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production.
Brazilian American
Author: Man and His Work
Author: Andrew John HerbertsonPublisher:
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Category : Human geography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Author: Luiz C. BarbosaPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761815228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development, coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Brazil and Buenos Ayres
Author: Josiah ConderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
High Diversity Forest Restoration in Degraded Areas
Author: Ricardo Ribeiro RodriguesPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600214219
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The discussion of ideas, methods, scientific results, empirical practices and perspectives on the restoration of high diversity tropical and subtropical forest formations is the objective of this book; however, principles here proposed may be used in other less complex forest formations. Special attention is given to the role of the ecological processes on the restoration of functional forest communities, once the composition and structure of these natural or even restored communities change in space and time.