The Future Of Amazonia

Author : A. Hall,D. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349210688

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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 : A. Hall,D. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Michael L. Cepek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292745728

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A Future for Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek Pdf

Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world’s most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian armed factions, the indigenous Cofán people and their rain forest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofán chose Randy Borman, a man of Euro-American descent, to lead their efforts to overcome the crisis that confronted them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, A Future for Amazonia begins by tracing the contours of Cofán society and Borman’s place within it. Borman, a blue-eyed, white-skinned child of North American missionary-linguists, was raised in a Cofán community and gradually came to share the identity of his adoptive nation. He became a global media phenomenon and forged creative partnerships between Cofán communities, conservationist organizations, Western scientists, and the Ecuadorian state. The result was a collective mobilization that transformed the Cofán nation in unprecedented ways, providing them with political power, scientific expertise, and a new role as ambitious caretakers of more than one million acres of forest. Challenging simplistic notions of identity, indigeneity, and inevitable ecological destruction, A Future for Amazonia charts an inspiring course for environmental politics in the twenty-first century.

Author : Marcílio de Freitas,Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 1433177935

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The Future of Amazonia in Brazil by Marcílio de Freitas,Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas Pdf

This book presents an original and exciting study on Amazonia and ecological issues. It analyzes the main contemporary polemics from the perspective of culture and the nature sciences.

Author : James M. Cooper,Christine Hunefeldt
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1845195000

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Amazonia by James M. Cooper,Christine Hunefeldt Pdf

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 : Leslie Elmer Sponsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034410624

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Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia by Leslie Elmer Sponsel Pdf

This timely book provides the first examination of the relationship between cultural and environmental variation in the Amazon, with special reference to the survival and welfare of indigenous societies. The particular strength of this collection is that it emphasizes ongoing changing elements rather than static ones in Amazonian human ecology in the context of colonization. Leslie Sponsel and twelve other contributors, including archaeologists, biological anthropologists, cultural ecologists, and nutritionists, review traditional and changing adaptations of indigenous societies to Amazonian ecosystems; they analyze the challenges presented to indigenes by the massive cultural and environmental impact of Westernization. They also discuss the applications of research results to the needs, interests, and priorities of indigenous societies. In his concluding chapter, Sponsel calls for anthropologists to contribute through their research to the empowerment of indigenous communities and organizations. "In the Amazon the only people who already know and practice ecologically sound economies are most indigenous societies. Documenting their ecologically sound values, knowledge, and technology is one of the most important tasks for cultural ecology".

Author : Michael L. Cepek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292745728

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A Future for Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek Pdf

Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world’s most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian armed factions, the indigenous Cofán people and their rain forest territory faced imminent jeopardy. In a surprising turn of events, the Cofán chose Randy Borman, a man of Euro-American descent, to lead their efforts to overcome the crisis that confronted them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research, A Future for Amazonia begins by tracing the contours of Cofán society and Borman’s place within it. Borman, a blue-eyed, white-skinned child of North American missionary-linguists, was raised in a Cofán community and gradually came to share the identity of his adoptive nation. He became a global media phenomenon and forged creative partnerships between Cofán communities, conservationist organizations, Western scientists, and the Ecuadorian state. The result was a collective mobilization that transformed the Cofán nation in unprecedented ways, providing them with political power, scientific expertise, and a new role as ambitious caretakers of more than one million acres of forest. Challenging simplistic notions of identity, indigeneity, and inevitable ecological destruction, A Future for Amazonia charts an inspiring course for environmental politics in the twenty-first century.

Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Leslie Elmer Sponsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : MINN:31951D01271406U

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Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia by Leslie Elmer Sponsel Pdf

This timely book provides the first examination of the relationship between cultural and environmental variation in the Amazon, with special reference to the survival and welfare of indigenous societies. The particular strength of this collection is that it emphasizes ongoing changing elements rather than static ones in Amazonian human ecology in the context of colonization. Leslie Sponsel and twelve other contributors, including archaeologists, biological anthropologists, cultural ecologists, and nutritionists, review traditional and changing adaptations of indigenous societies to Amazonian ecosystems; they analyze the challenges presented to indigenes by the massive cultural and environmental impact of Westernization. They also discuss the applications of research results to the needs, interests, and priorities of indigenous societies. In his concluding chapter, Sponsel calls for anthropologists to contribute through their research to the empowerment of indigenous communities and organizations. "In the Amazon the only people who already know and practice ecologically sound economies are most indigenous societies. Documenting their ecologically sound values, knowledge, and technology is one of the most important tasks for cultural ecology".

Author : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : George Corbett Mrs.
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789359953793

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New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by George Corbett Mrs. Pdf

Mrs. George Corbett wrote "New Amazonia," a woman utopian novel this is hard to understand. The story takes vicinity in a different time and location, on an island called New Amazonia that is only inhabited via girls who've created a society loose from male control. In New Amazonia, women do nicely in an international where they run matters and deal with themselves without men. This creates a society where gender roles are completely flipped. The tale is informed through the eyes of a male traveler who visits this society ruled with the aid of ladies and studies their social norms, which make him suppose deeply about how gender roles work in his own global. Mrs. George Corbett's paintings tackle controversial thoughts approximately gender equality, strength dynamics, and what takes place whilst humans are absolutely shut out of society. The creator questions and rethinks the famous social norms of her time thru this ideal imaginative and prescient, developing a thrilling replicate picture of gender roles and social systems. "New Amazonia" is a groundbreaking work of feminist literature that has led to conversations about gender roles, equality, and what might show up in a world without men.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : MBM Förlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789186505042

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Amazonia – the future world where women rule by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780854662692

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Amazon Ecosystem - Past Discoveries and Future Prospects by Heimo Mikkola Pdf

The Amazon region is the largest river basin and rainforest ecosystem in the world. It contains billions of trees, which are a vital carbon store to slow down global warming. Amazonia is home to one million indigenous people and some three million species of plants and animals. The future of the world’s largest forest is critical to South America and the planet. However, nine owner nations—Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela—have encouraged agriculture, logging, and mining activities, causing a dangerous setback in the effort to protect “the lungs of the world." Due to global importance, the protection of Amazonia is vital. This book includes six chapters that describe the past and present situation of the Amazon region and present positive examples of sustainable development possibilities.

Author : Anthony L. Hall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Amazon River Watershed
ISBN : 0719035503

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Developing Amazonia by Anthony L. Hall Pdf

This study of the Grande Carajas programme, the largest project in the Amazon rainforest, is central to the debate on its future and fate. The social and environmental costs of the programme are examined here.

Author : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780854662692

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Amazon Ecosystem - Past Discoveries and Future Prospects by Heimo Mikkola Pdf

The Amazon region is the largest river basin and rainforest ecosystem in the world. It contains billions of trees, which are a vital carbon store to slow down global warming. Amazonia is home to one million indigenous people and some three million species of plants and animals. The future of the world’s largest forest is critical to South America and the planet. However, nine owner nations—Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela—have encouraged agriculture, logging, and mining activities, causing a dangerous setback in the effort to protect “the lungs of the world." Due to global importance, the protection of Amazonia is vital. This book includes six chapters that describe the past and present situation of the Amazon region and present positive examples of sustainable development possibilities.