Sustainable Development In Amazonia

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136179624

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Sustainable Development in Amazonia by Kei Otsuki Pdf

This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable development policies through the ethnography of an Amazonian settlement named New Paradise. This book demystifies utopian and overtly conservationist views that depict the Amazon rainforest as a troubled paradise. Engaging with social theory of practice with particular focus on emergentist perspectives and Foucault’s analysis of ‘heterotopia’, the author shows that Amazonia is a set of settlement heterotopias in which various local and external initiatives interact to make up real, lived-in places. The settlers’ placemaking continually rearranges power and material relations while the process usually emphasises utopian developmentalist and conservationist policy intervention. This book explores in detail how, as power relations are arranged and governance reshaped, sustainable development and construction of a green society also need to become a goal for the settlers themselves. The book’s insights on the relationship between the sustainable development frameworks used in environmental policy, and ongoing societal development on the ground inform debate both within Amazonia, and in comparable communities worldwide. It also offers institutional pathways to realise new, more engaging, policy intervention for development professionals and policy makers.

Author : Anthony L. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : MINN:31951D02031002C

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Amazonia at the Crossroads by Anthony L. Hall Pdf

At the dawn of the 1990s, it seemed that Amazonia had become irrevocably trapped in a downward spiral of deforestation, environmental destruction and social conflict. Yet over the past ten years a more acute awareness has emerged at all levels, national and international, of the need to encourage more sustainable policies and practices. That is, measures that provide for the economic development needs of Amazonia's diverse population, while at the same time conserving and managing the region's natural resource base. At a major conference, organised in London in June 1998 by the Institute of Latin American Studies (Amazonia 2000: Development, Environment and Geopolitics), over twenty international scholars traced the evolution of this gradual shift in thinking. The present volume, based on that conference, examines past patterns of destructive resource extraction in Amazonia and, more importantly, critically analyses a series of newer initiatives that offer more sustainable options. These include, amongst others, new production strategies, such as agroforestry, innovative resource governance models such as inland fisheries co-management and agro-ecological zoning. The challenge at this critical juncture is how to integrate such policies and practices into mainstream development within Amazonia. Contributors: David Cleary, René Dreifuss, Philip Fearnside, Jessica Groenendijk, Anthony Hall, Judith Kimerling, Tom Lovejoy, Dennis Mahar, David McGrath, Emilio Moran, Darrel Posey, Nigel Smith, and Wouter Veening.

Author : A. Hall,D. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349210688

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The Future of Amazonia by A. Hall,D. Goodman Pdf

The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, hangs in the balance. Two decades of destructive development have provoked violent struggles for control over the region's resources, with disastrous social and environmental consequences. This multi-disciplinary collection reviews past experience but focusses on the latest phase of Amazonian settlement. Chapters by leading authorities examine such issues as colonisation in the most recent frontier areas, multinational mining projects, hydro-electric schemes, and the military occupation of Brazil's borders. After demonstrating how new government and business activities have exacerbated social tensions and ecological destruction, the volume considers alternative, more sustainable strategies.

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190949389

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Governing the Rainforest by Eve Z. Bratman Pdf

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.

Author : Marcílio de Freitas and Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781633828971

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Sustainability by Marcílio de Freitas and Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas Pdf

The reinvention and the emergency of the capitalism with new worldwide contours, having ecology as the paradigm of modernity, have introduced a set of new problems. The integration of the world economy with environmental questions, the control on the ecological future of the planet, the reinventions of new ethical utopias for the humanity, the universality of the participative democracy, and the construction of the new natural and social contracts on a worldwide scale, are questions that pressure the current systems of thoughts. The fast social depreciation and ecological destruction, putting the future existence of the humanity at risk, constitute a contradiction of the processes of globalization. Mankind has been confronted with this new historical perspective: to construct and incorporate socio-economical enterprises to the notion of sustainable development. This book has the pretension to introduce new elements in this dialogue, reaffirming the importance of the Amazonia in this worldwide political enterprise.

Author : Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780894991196

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Amazonia Without Myths by Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia Pdf

This report, prepared by the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia at the initiative of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, is based on the concept of an Amazonia that exists above and beyond the world of fantasy and myth: an Amazonia of flesh and blood, of human toil, of human history, of human faces and hopes, and future human beings. It is an analysis based not only on the experiences and technologies of today"s world but also, and with greater emphasis, on the wisdom accumulated for centuries by Amazonia itself: standing Amazonia. The Amazon region has the largest area of tropical forest on the planet, and concern for its environmental deterioration extends well beyond the borders of the eight countries that form a part of it. With support from the IDB and UNDP, the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia prepared this report that provides data on the region's natural resources, population, health and infrastructure.

Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821350315

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Sustainable Amazon by Robert R. Schneider Pdf

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.

Author : Miguel Clüsener-Godt,Ignacy Sachs
Publisher : Unesco ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; Pearl River, N.Y., USA : Parthenon Publishing Group
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000044732083

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Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region by Miguel Clüsener-Godt,Ignacy Sachs Pdf

Very often, the reports and commentaries come from outside the countries and peoples of the region, while much of the thinking about Amazonia from within is not widely known or accessible.

Author : Virgílio M. Viana
Publisher : IIED
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843697732

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Sustainable Development in Practice by Virgílio M. Viana Pdf

Author : Wil G. Panters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130369284

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Amazonia, Ecology and Sustainable Development by Wil G. Panters Pdf

Author : Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann
Publisher : Götz Kaufmann
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development by Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann Pdf

Author : Juan De Onis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000198139

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The Green Cathedral by Juan De Onis Pdf

A former bureau chief and a correspondant for The New York Times since the early '60s, de Onis undertook an unparalleled two-year study of the Amazon rain forests in 1988, interviewing the homesteaders, bureaucrats, and activists who together will decide the future of the vast forests, and with it the environment. 16 halftones and 2 maps.

Author : Cl¢vis de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178254125X

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The Environment, Sustainable Development, and Public Policies by Cl¢vis de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti Pdf

Government policy for sustainable development: Building sustainability in Brazil. Towards sustainable development. Sacale, ecological economics and the conservation of biodiversity. Environmental valuation in the quest for a sustainable future. Achieving a sustainable world. Policies for sustainable development. Green accounting and macroeconomic policy. A politico-communicative model to overcome the impasse of the current politico-technical model for environmental negotiation in Brazil. Agenda 21: a sustainable development strategy supported by participatory decision-marking processe. International prevate finance and sustainable development: policy instruments for Brazil. Enviromental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia. Exploitation of biodiversity and indigenous Knowledge in Latin America: Challenges to sovereignty and the old order.

Author : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134044337

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Dam the Rivers, Damn the People by Barbara J. Cummings Pdf

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

Author : Luis E. Aragón
Publisher : Stockholm University Institute of Latin American Studies
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021272195

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The Amazon as a Study Object by Luis E. Aragón Pdf