The Future Of Amazonia In Brazil

Author : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Marcílio de Freitas,Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : A. Hall,D. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Anthony L. Hall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UCR:31210003547211

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Brazil, Land of the Future by Stefan Zweig Pdf

Author : Jeremy M. Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295806198

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Conjuring Property by Jeremy M. Campbell Pdf

Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.

Author : Gordon MacMillan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231103557

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At the End of the Rainbow? by Gordon MacMillan Pdf

Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment.

Author : Rachel M. McCleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0876410255

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Development Strategies in Conflict, Brazil and the Future of the Amazon by Rachel M. McCleary Pdf

Author : Viola Eduardo,Matías Franchini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351589710

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Brazil and Climate Change by Viola Eduardo,Matías Franchini Pdf

Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens, the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the international system. This book offers an assessment of Brazil’s role in the global political economy of climate change. The authors, Eduardo Viola and Matías Franchini expertly review and answer the most common and widely cited questions on whether and in which way Brazil is aggravating or mitigating the climate crisis, including: Is it the benign, cooperative, environmental power that the Brazilian government claims it is? Why was it possible to dramatically reduce deforestation in the Amazon (2005-2010) and, more recently, was there a partial reversion? The book provides an accessible—and much needed—introduction to all those studying the challenges of the international system in the Anthropocene. Through a thorough analysis of Brazil in perspective vis a vis other emerging countries, this book provides an engaging introduction and up to date assessment of the climate reality of Brazil and a framework to analyze the climate performance of major economies, both on emission trajectory and policy profile: the climate commitment approach. Brazil and Climate Change is essential reading for all students of Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Author : James M. Cooper,Christine Hunefeldt
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Walter Leal Filho,Victor T. King,Ismar Borges de Lima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030291532

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Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics by Walter Leal Filho,Victor T. King,Ismar Borges de Lima Pdf

This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three themes this volume offers a comprehensive critical review of the facts that have been the reality of Amazonia and fills a gap in the literature.The book will appeal to scholars, professors and practitioners. An outstanding group of experienced researchers and individuals with detailed knowledge of the proposed themes have produced chapters on an array of inter-related issues to demonstrate the current situation and future prospects of Amazonia. Issues investigated and debated include: territorial management; indigenous territoriality and land demarcation; ethnodevelopment; indigenous higher education and capacity building; natural resource appropriation; food security and traditional knowledge; megadevelopmental projects; indigenous acculturation; modernization of Amazonia and its regional integration; anthropogenic interventions; protected areas and conservation; political ecology; postcolonial issues, and the sustainability of Amazonia.

Author : Leslie Elmer Sponsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Darrell Addison Posey,Michael J. Balick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231105880

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Human Impacts on Amazonia by Darrell Addison Posey,Michael J. Balick Pdf

Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing U.S. politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflects the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in American public and private life over the last half century. Encompassing a range of perspectives, this book illustrates the ways in which individuals from all along the religious and political spectrum have engaged religion and viewed it as a crucial aspect of society. The anthology begins with documents that reflect the close relationship of religion, especially mainline Protestantism, to essential ideas undergirding Cold War America. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, this volume devotes extended attention to how issues of politics, race, gender, and sexuality have influenced the religious mainstream. A series of documents reflects the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in conservative responses. Issues regarding religion and contemporary American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the evangelical movement and the religious right; the impact of "new" (post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape; the popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs; and the relationship between religion and popular culture. The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of American religious life at the millennium, including both conservative and New Age millennialism, as well as excerpts that speculate on the future of religion in the United States. The documents are grouped by theme into nine chapters and arranged chronologically therein. Each chapter features an extensive introduction providing context for and analysis of the critical issues raised by the primary sources.