Sustainable Development Of The Amazon

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190949396

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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 : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : 45,5 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 : Rebecca Ray,Kevin P. Gallagher,Cynthia A. Sanborn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000711615

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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon by Rebecca Ray,Kevin P. Gallagher,Cynthia A. Sanborn Pdf

This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks. This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.

Author : Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann
Publisher : Götz Kaufmann
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development by Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann Pdf

Author : Virgílio M. Viana
Publisher : IIED
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843697732

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Sustainable Development in Practice by Virgílio M. Viana Pdf

Author : Luis E. Aragón
Publisher : Stockholm University Institute of Latin American Studies
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 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

Author : Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319230306

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The Brazilian Amazon by Joana Bezerra Pdf

The aim of this book is to analyse the current development scenario in the Amazon, using Terra Preta de Índio as a case study. To do so it is necessary to go back in time, both in the national and international sphere, through the second half of the last century to analyse its trajectory. It will be equally important analyse the current issues regarding the Amazon – sustainable development and climate change – and how they still reproduce some of the problems that marked the history of the forest, such as the absence of Amazonian dark earths as a relevant theme to the Amazon. ​In a world in which the environment gains each time more space in the national and international political agenda, the Amazon stands out. Known around the world for its richness, the South-American forest is the target of different visions, often contradictory ones, and it plays with everyone’s imagination. This is where the terra preta de índio – Amazonian Dark Earths - are found, a fertile soil horizon with high concentrations of carbon with anthropic origins, which has generated great interest from the scientific community. Studies on these soils and their so singular characteristics have triggered crucial discussions on the past, present and the future of the entire Amazon region. Despite its singular characteristics, the importance of Amazonian Dark Earths – and a history of a more productive and populated Amazon – was hidden since its discovery around 1880 until 1980, when it is possible to identify the beginning of an increase in the number of research on these soil horizons. These hundred years between the first records and the beginning of the increase in the interest around these soils witnessed structural changes both in the national arena, with the military dictatorship and a change in the place of the Amazon within internal affairs, and in the international arena with changes that reshaped the role of the environment in the political and scientific agendas and the role of Brazil in the global context.

Author : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761815228

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The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest by Luiz C. Barbosa Pdf

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.

Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0821350315

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Sustainable Amazon by Robert R. Schneider Pdf

There is an ongoing debate over the future of the Amazon in Brazil. Part of this debate involves the question of whether or not it is possible to ensure development in the region while conserving its immense natural heritage. This report adds to the discussion of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It analyses the harmful effects of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement and productivity. The aim of this report is to assist decision-makers, civil society, and the private sector in their attempts to ensure that natural resources will be maintained in such a way that best maximis.

Author : Benno Pokorny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135105938

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Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon by Benno Pokorny Pdf

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.

Author : Anthony L. Hall
Publisher : Institute of Latin American Studies
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : UCSD:31822035166032

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Global Impact, Local Action by Anthony L. Hall Pdf

The fragile forest ecosystems in Latin America have long served domestic economic interests through timber production, mining, land resettlement, and cattle ranching. Over the past two decades, the demands on this natural resource base have been exacerbated by transnational commercial and political forces. These forces include MERCOSUR (the world's second largest customs union, composed of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay), the Kyoto Protocol, and international environmental organizations. As threats to the region's endangered ecosystems have grown, so have new approaches to stem the damage by incorporating local populations in decentralized systems of resource management. This volume examines several of the innovative strategies being tested in the Amazon rainforest. These attempts, involving multi-institutional responses to environmental threats, are showing initial results that offer cautious hope for the future. Contributors include Martin Coy (Geographical Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria), Hervé Théry (Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris and Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia), David Cleary (Nature Conservancy, Brazil), Phil Fearnside (National Institute for Amazonian Studies, Brazil), Neli Aparecida de Mello (Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia), John Redwood (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank), Martina Neuburger (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Dan Pasca (University of Tuebingen), Judith Lisansky (World Bank), Sergio Rosendo (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, UK), Fábio de Castro (Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University, and Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisa Ambiental, University of Campinas, Brazil), and Larissa Chermont (London School of Economics and Political Science, and Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil).

Author : André P. Plamondon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:891884616

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Amazon Environment Project by André P. Plamondon Pdf