Author: Emilio F Moran
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development
Author: Emilio F Moran
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development
Author: Emilio F Moran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315932
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315932
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development
Author: Emilio F Moran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315932
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315932
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
Sustainable Amazon
Author: Robert R. Schneider
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350317
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Annotation This report adds to the discussion of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It analyzes the harmful effects of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement and productivity.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350317
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Annotation This report adds to the discussion of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It analyzes the harmful effects of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement and productivity.
Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture
Author: Darrell A. Posey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134471424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134471424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.
Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia
Author: Catarina A.S. Cardoso
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351733281
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood. This book addresses these linkages in a grounded analysis of extractive reserves : areas in Brazil set aside for local populations who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. Extractive reserves are the result of the struggle of the rubber tappers for control over their natural resources and worldwide concern with the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest. The author examines their significance for Brazil as a pioneering legislative and policy initiative to combine conservation with productive use of natural resources, to recognize common property rights to natural resources, and to support traditional populations’ modes of production. Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia examines the formation and institutional sustainability of the reserves, and in so doing provides a valuable insight into the relationship between local institutions and the wider socio-political and economic context with regard to forest management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351733281
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood. This book addresses these linkages in a grounded analysis of extractive reserves : areas in Brazil set aside for local populations who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. Extractive reserves are the result of the struggle of the rubber tappers for control over their natural resources and worldwide concern with the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest. The author examines their significance for Brazil as a pioneering legislative and policy initiative to combine conservation with productive use of natural resources, to recognize common property rights to natural resources, and to support traditional populations’ modes of production. Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia examines the formation and institutional sustainability of the reserves, and in so doing provides a valuable insight into the relationship between local institutions and the wider socio-political and economic context with regard to forest management.
Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
Author: Marianne Schmink
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513883
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513883
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará.
Social Change And Applied Anthropology
Author: Miriam Chaiken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000311678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000311678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.
The Central Amazon Floodplain
Author: Wolfgang J. Junk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662034166
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Floodplains are ecosystems which are driven by periodic inundation and oscillation between terrestrial and aquatic phases. An understanding of such pulsing systems is only possible by studying both phases and linking the results into an integrated overview. This book presents the results of a 15-year study of the structure and function of one of the largest tropical floodplains, the Amazon River floodplain. It covers qualitative aspects, e.g., adaptations of aquatic and terrestrial organisms to the flood pulse as well as quantitative aspects, e.g., studies of biomass, primary production, decomposition, and nutrient cycles. The authors interpret their findings and the most important data from other studies under an integrating scientific concept, the Flood Pulse Concept.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662034166
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Floodplains are ecosystems which are driven by periodic inundation and oscillation between terrestrial and aquatic phases. An understanding of such pulsing systems is only possible by studying both phases and linking the results into an integrated overview. This book presents the results of a 15-year study of the structure and function of one of the largest tropical floodplains, the Amazon River floodplain. It covers qualitative aspects, e.g., adaptations of aquatic and terrestrial organisms to the flood pulse as well as quantitative aspects, e.g., studies of biomass, primary production, decomposition, and nutrient cycles. The authors interpret their findings and the most important data from other studies under an integrating scientific concept, the Flood Pulse Concept.
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Author: Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134044267
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the massive hydro-electric schemes which are being pushed ahead with little regard to efficacy, the rights of the people, or the survival of the forest. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People is about two of the most affected areas, Balbina in Amazonas and the Xingu River in Para. Barbara Cummings describes the plans which the state attempted to keep secret, the extent to which these projects will destroy the forest, the consequent dispossession of the people of the forest and, above all, their growing resistance. She shows how the outcome of their fight affects us all. Originally published in 1990
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134044267
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the massive hydro-electric schemes which are being pushed ahead with little regard to efficacy, the rights of the people, or the survival of the forest. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People is about two of the most affected areas, Balbina in Amazonas and the Xingu River in Para. Barbara Cummings describes the plans which the state attempted to keep secret, the extent to which these projects will destroy the forest, the consequent dispossession of the people of the forest and, above all, their growing resistance. She shows how the outcome of their fight affects us all. Originally published in 1990