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Oil in the Soil

Author : Pamela L. Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 144221130X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Oil in the Soil written by Pamela L. Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines the path-breaking global environmental governance mechanisms that have resulted from the transnational networks of the Yasuní-ITT campaign and their implications for replication around the world. The analysis of these networks reveals new dynamics of mobilization from the South, which may impact the future of global environmental negotiations. Martin also examines the alternative norms behind the initiative in the words of governmental and non-governmental actors. Such normative changes demonstrate the global struggles of the resource-dependent poor and provide insights toward new pathways of sustainable development for the planet.

Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Author : Flora Lu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137533625
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia written by Flora Lu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador’s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature’s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration’s Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution—the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country’s most marginalized peoples—to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.

Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas

Author : Cristina Adams
Publisher : Annablume
ISBN 13 : 9788574196442
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Sociedades Caboclas Amazônicas written by Cristina Adams and published by Annablume. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of the Rain Forest

Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385279
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Rain Forest written by Candace Slater and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner

Amazonia

Author : James M. Cooper
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845195007
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Amazonia written by James M. Cooper and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Amazon Rainforest Magic

Author : Barbara Crane Navarro
Publisher : Barbara Crane Navarro
ISBN 13 : 9782954746111
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Amazon Rainforest Magic written by Barbara Crane Navarro and published by Barbara Crane Navarro. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIES: AMAZON RAINFOREST MAGIC The magic of the Amazon rainforest enchanted artist Barbara Crane Navarro as she spent the winter months with the Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil over a period of twelve years. These travels inspired her to write her children's books. The vividly illustrated stories in this series evoke daily life in the rainforest and the magical quality of the Yanomami's relation to the plants and animals around them. The first book, "Amazon Rainforest Magic: The Adventures of Namowe, a Yanomami Boy," recounts the journey of Namowe, a thirteen year old Yanomami boy living in the rainforest, as he seeks a cure for his baby sister.

Amazon

Author : Paul A Collinvaux
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482283603
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Amazon written by Paul A Collinvaux and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Author : Lawrence Ziegler-Otero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845453060
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Resistance in an Amazonian Community written by Lawrence Ziegler-Otero and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil exploitation, colonization, and other pressures. The author explores the structures and practices of the organization, as well as the contradictions created by the imposition of an alien and hierarchical organizational form on a traditionally egalitarian society. This study has broad implications for those who work toward "cultural survival" or try to "save the rainforest."

Amazônia E Defesa Nacional

Author : Celso Castro
Publisher : FGV Editora
ISBN 13 : 9788522505548
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Amazônia E Defesa Nacional written by Celso Castro and published by FGV Editora. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crude Chronicles

Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332725
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Crude Chronicles written by Suzana Sawyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEthnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador./div

Pueblos y paisajes antiguos de la selva amazónica

Author : Santiago Mora Camargo
Publisher : Univ. Nacional de Colombia
ISBN 13 : 9789587017687
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Pueblos y paisajes antiguos de la selva amazónica written by Santiago Mora Camargo and published by Univ. Nacional de Colombia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un camino al diálogo, un paso hacia el passado: pueblos y paisajes antiguos de la selva amazónica. Bases para una prehistoria ecologica amazonica y el caso Chiribiquete. Filiaciones amerindias amazónicas y lengua Tikuna. Domesticação de paisagens e plantas amazônicas: a interação de etnobotânica, genética molecular e arqueologia. Investigações arqueológicas nas áreas de interflúvio entre os rios Negro e Solimões, Amazônia Central, Brasil. Padrões de organização comunitária no Baixo Tapajós: o formativo na área de Santarém, Brasil. Population and biodiversity in Amazonian dark earths soils. An Amazonian dark earth profile description from a site located in the floodplain (várzea) in the Brazilian Amazon...

A New Partnership

Author : Judith P. Zinsser
Publisher : Unesco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A New Partnership written by Judith P. Zinsser and published by Unesco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide aimed at teachers in both primary and secondary schools, elucidating indigenous people's close links with their environment, discussing their rights, values, traditions and languages, and analysing the different phases in a growing partnership with the United Nations system. Includes resource material for classroom use.

The context of REDD+ in Peru: Drivers, agents and institutions

Author : Hugo Che Piu
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 6021504372
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The context of REDD+ in Peru: Drivers, agents and institutions written by Hugo Che Piu and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This country profile contains an analysis of the causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Peru, and the economic, institutional and political context in which REDD is emerging in the country. Peru has a total forest area of approximately 73 million hectares, almost 60% of national territory. In the past few years, deforestation decreased from 150,000 ha/year to 106,000 ha/year but it still represents one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the country. While it has decreased recently, an increase is expected during coming years due to development policies that support the expansion of road infrastructure in the Amazon, an increase in agricultural production and support for the extractive sectors. The government has declared a goal of reducing to zero the deforestation rate across 54 million hectares of primary forest by 2021, and has initiated the preparation process for REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus) at a national and subnational level. While the pilot projects are already underway, with international and national funding, and even certification according to international standards, the national government is still in the process of developing REDD+ and MRV (Measuring, Reporting and Verification) strategies under the leadership of MINAM. Even if REDD has solid support within certain sectors of the government and civil society, it will face big challenges during the implementation phase due to a lack of intersectoral coordination and support to a socioeconomic development that would stimulate conservation and stop deforestation and degradation. In the process of preparation for REDD+, the country has advanced with the processes of safeguarding the participation of the civil society and the protection of native and local communities’ rights. At the same time, the challenges concerning weak governance at a national and regional level and conflicts of interest are threats to the effective, efficient and equitable implementation in the long-term.

Ending the Fossil Fuel Era

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527332
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Ending the Fossil Fuel Era written by Thomas Princen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway. Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel era, by resisting the slow violence of extreme extraction and combustion, exiting the industry, and imagining a good life after fossil fuels. It shows how an environmental politics of transition might occur, arguing for going to the source rather than managing byproducts, for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, for engaging a politics of deliberately choosing a post-fossil fuel world. Six case studies reveal how individuals, groups, communities, and an entire country have taken first steps out of the fossil fuel era, with experiments that range from leaving oil under the Amazon to ending mountaintop removal in Appalachia.

From Tribal Village to Global Village

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734592
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book From Tribal Village to Global Village written by Alison Brysk and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rise of human rights movements in five Latin American countries—Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Bolivia—among the hemisphere's most isolated and powerless people, Latin American Indians. It describes the impact of the Indian rights movement on world politics, from reforming the United Nations to evicting foreign oil companies, and analyzes the impact of these human rights experiences for all of Latin America's indigenous citizens and native people throughout the world.

God in the Rainforest

Author : Kathryn T. Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190608994
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book God in the Rainforest written by Kathryn T. Long and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Singing to the Plants

Author : Stephan V, Beyer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826347312
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Singing to the Plants written by Stephan V, Beyer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the Amazon, especially its healing, sorcery, shamanism, and the use of potent plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. The result is a uniquely eclectic shamanist culture that continues to fascinate outsiders with its brilliant visionary art. Ayahuasca shamanism is now part of global culture. Once the terrain of anthropologists, it is now the subject of novels and spiritual memoirs, while ayahuasca shamans perform their healing rituals in Ontario and Wisconsin. Singing to the Plants sets forth just what this shamanism is about--what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery.