Underdeveloping The Amazon

Author : Stephen G. Bunker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226080321

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Underdeveloping the Amazon by Stephen G. Bunker Pdf

Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.

Author : Stephen G. Bunker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226080321

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Underdeveloping the Amazon by Stephen G. Bunker Pdf

Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.

Author : Cristina Adams,Rui S. S. Murrieta,Walter A. Neves,Mark Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402092831

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Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment by Cristina Adams,Rui S. S. Murrieta,Walter A. Neves,Mark Harris Pdf

Amazonia is never quite what it seems. Despite regular attention in the media and numerous academic studies the Brazilian Amazon is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. Often left invisible are the families who are making a living from the rivers and forests of the region. Broadly characterizing these people as peasants Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment seeks to bring together research by anthropologists, historians, political ecologists and biologists. A new paradigm emerges which helps understand the way in which Amazonian modernity has developed. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women’s work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. Apart from offering an analysis of a neglected aspect of Amazonia this collection represents a unique interdisciplinary exercise on the nature of one of the most beguiling regions of the world.

Author : Stephen L. Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351717946

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The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry by Stephen L. Nugent Pdf

In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.

Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315420400

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Scoping the Amazon by Stephen Nugent Pdf

The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.

Author : Antoine Acker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107197428

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Volkswagen in the Amazon by Antoine Acker Pdf

The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

Author : Stephen A. Vosti,Julie Witcover,Chantal Line Carpentier
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780896291324

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Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon by Stephen A. Vosti,Julie Witcover,Chantal Line Carpentier Pdf

Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris,Rafael R. Ioris,Sergei V. Shubin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498594721

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Frontiers of Development in the Amazon by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris,Rafael R. Ioris,Sergei V. Shubin Pdf

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers. This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that question the methods of development and the range of socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces, placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive—at times violent—clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and multiple programs of modernization and national integration. Scholars of Latin American studies, international development, environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Benno Pokorny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052181197X

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The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon by Lykke E. Andersen Pdf

A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.

Author : Gregory M. Thaler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300272482

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Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World by Gregory M. Thaler Pdf

An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism For two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land by preventing forest clearing for agricultural expansion, has dominated tropical forest conservation. Land sparing policies transform landscapes and livelihoods with the promise of reconciling agricultural development with environmental conservation. But that land sparing promise is false. Based on six years of research on agrarian frontiers in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia, this book traces where and how land sparing becomes policy and charts the social and ecological effects of these political contests. Gregory M. Thaler explains why land sparing appears successful in some places but not in others and reveals that success as an illusion achieved by displacing deforestation to new frontiers. The failure of land sparing exposes a harsh truth behind assurances of green capitalism: capitalist development is ecocide.

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0719009685

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Change in the Amazon Basin by John Hemming Pdf

Conference report on development projects, environmental dangers, agricultural production and agroforestry by indigenous peoples and historical change in the Amazonia river basin, Brazil - considers the impact of development projects on the living conditions of Andean Indian tribes, negative effects of deforestation, hydrologycal aspects of rainforest in the central Amazon tropical zone, etc.; includes a historical survey of the rubber boom. Bibliography, diagrams, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.

Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189483

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Amazonian Caboclo Society by Stephen Nugent Pdf

Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It traces the development of caboclo societies and argues that much of the current discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society.

Author : Jacqueline Vadjunec,Marianne Schmink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317982975

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Amazonian Geographies by Jacqueline Vadjunec,Marianne Schmink Pdf

Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.

Author : Cristina Adams
Publisher : Annablume
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Caboclos (Brazilian people)
ISBN : 8574196444

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Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas by Cristina Adams Pdf