Author: Santiago Mora Camargo Publisher: Univ. Nacional de Colombia ISBN: 9789587017687 Category : Amazon River Region Languages : es Pages : 426
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Un camino al diálogo, un paso hacia el passado: pueblos y paisajes antiguos de la selva amazónica. Bases para una prehistoria ecologica amazonica y el caso Chiribiquete. Filiaciones amerindias amazónicas y lengua Tikuna. Domesticação de paisagens e plantas amazônicas: a interação de etnobotânica, genética molecular e arqueologia. Investigações arqueológicas nas áreas de interflúvio entre os rios Negro e Solimões, Amazônia Central, Brasil. Padrões de organização comunitária no Baixo Tapajós: o formativo na área de Santarém, Brasil. Population and biodiversity in Amazonian dark earths soils. An Amazonian dark earth profile description from a site located in the floodplain (várzea) in the Brazilian Amazon...
Author: Walter Leal Filho Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030291537 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 435
Book Description
This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three themes this volume offers a comprehensive critical review of the facts that have been the reality of Amazonia and fills a gap in the literature.The book will appeal to scholars, professors and practitioners. An outstanding group of experienced researchers and individuals with detailed knowledge of the proposed themes have produced chapters on an array of inter-related issues to demonstrate the current situation and future prospects of Amazonia. Issues investigated and debated include: territorial management; indigenous territoriality and land demarcation; ethnodevelopment; indigenous higher education and capacity building; natural resource appropriation; food security and traditional knowledge; megadevelopmental projects; indigenous acculturation; modernization of Amazonia and its regional integration; anthropogenic interventions; protected areas and conservation; political ecology; postcolonial issues, and the sustainability of Amazonia.
Author: James M. Cooper Publisher: Apollo Books ISBN: 9781845195007 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 208
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A title that sets out how the Amazon Basin's indigenous self-determination meets corporate profiteering, where the future of natural resource stewardship is hotly debated, where subsistence living, extreme poverty, and the vagaries of the international commodities markets are revealed.
Author: Tom Brass Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135761906 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 427
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The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.
Author: Andrea Fanta Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1580465803 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 318
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This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.
Author: Siu Lang Carrillo Yap Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004439390 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 416
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In this book Siu Lang Carrillo Yap compares the land and forest rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, and analyses these rights in the context of international law, property law theory, and natural sciences.
Author: Carl Smith Publisher: MDPI ISBN: 3039218727 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies, scales, and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health, exercise, and nutrition. In summary, these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21st century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.
Author: Miguel N. Alexiades Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781845455637 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 334
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Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities.
Author: Minerva Arce Ibarra Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030497674 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 462
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This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA, including agriculturists, coffee-growers, as well as small-scale farmers/fishers, and others, have had to resist, cope with, or adapt to a range of neoliberal socio-environmental regimes that impact their territories and associated resources, including water, production systems and ultimately their cultural traditions. In response, rural producers are using local visions and innovation niches to decide what, when, and how to resist, cope with uncertainty, and still be successful in using their customary laws to retain their land rights and livelihoods. This book presents a range of ethnically diverse case studies from LA, which addresses socio-environmental, educational, and law regimes’ effects using transdisciplinary research approaches in rural, traditional and indigenous production systems. Based on both, the results and insights gained into how producers are resisting and adapting to these regimes, as well as decades of research carried out in LA rural territories by the participating authors, the book puts forward a baseline for devising new public policies that are better suited to the real challenges of livelihoods, poverty, and environmental degradation in LA. These recommendations are rooted in post-development thinking; they promote territorial public policy with social inclusion and a human’s rights approach. The book draws on over 20 years of research carried out by LA’s academics and their undergraduate and graduate students who have addressed collaborative work, participatory research, and transdisciplinary approaches with rural commons and communities in LA. It features 19 case studies, with contributions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico.
Author: Santiago Mora Camargo
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Author: James M. Cooper
Author: Tom Brass
Author: Eduardo Estrella
Author: Andrea Fanta
Author: Siu Lang Carrillo Yap
Author: Carl Smith
Author: Miguel N. Alexiades
Author: Minerva Arce Ibarra