Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: Emilio F. Moran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Douglas Ian Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780292776807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Brazil intended the Transamazon Highway to be a paved road to riches, but as recently as 1989 the 1,000-kilometer trip from Belem to Altamira required three days, six buses, three boats, and a ten-hour hitch with a truck driver named Eduardo to travel. This lively, readable study explores why colonization of the Amazon fell short of the planners' vision. Delving into issues of land distribution, soil ecology, and the colonists' adaptation to local ecosystems, Douglas Stewart uncovers the forces that drive deforestation. Recounting fascinating stories of the colonists he met, Stewart also describes how small farmers have banded together during the past decade to overcome the challenges of the frontier. Their collective action, he asserts, if backed by government policy, could lead to progressive land redistribution and wiser use. This broad-ranging look at why deforestation has occurred in the Amazon, what its consequences are, and what can be done to halt and remedy the process should be read by everyone concerned with preserving the Latin American environment.

Author: Emilio F. Moran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520360818
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Author: Susan Virginia Poats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: John O. Browder
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106559
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Rainforest Cities represents a valuable contribution to our current knowledge of regional development and environmental studies and will be of interest to urban planners, geographers, Amazon regional specialists, and interdisciplinary students of international development.

Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048199204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2248

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This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.

Author: Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190949392
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.