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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Deforestation and livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Diegues
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Deforestation and Livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon written by Carlos Diegues and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Barraclough
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375804
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Forests and Livelihoods written by S. Barraclough and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social dynamics of deforestation and of forest protection are the ongoing interactions amongst social actors and processes that determine the use and management of forests. Based on a vast amount of research and detailed case-studies in Brazil, Central America, Nepal and Tanzania as well as several papers dealing with wider themes and regions, this book argues that most current discussions of increased rates of deforestation and perceived accompanying environmental crises are overly simplistic. Institutional reforms and policy measures that have been undertaken in developing countries usually failed to protect either the forests or people's livelihoods. Technical solutions to deforestation are only one element in what are essentially political questions. The central issue is not how to halt deforestation but rather how to manage forest areas and natural resources in order to meet social goals on a more equitable and sustainable basis. Conventional wisdom that attributes deforestation primarily to peasant ignorance and population growth is questioned as are other single factor explanations such as market and policy failures.
Author : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811972
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon written by Lykke E. Andersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sérgio Margulis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821356913
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon written by Sérgio Margulis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
Author : Alexander S. P. Pfaff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? written by Alexander S. P. Pfaff and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291308
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761815228
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest written by Luiz C. Barbosa and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fábio Homero Diniz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789461735836
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (358 download)
Download or read book From Landless to Forestless? written by Fábio Homero Diniz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831715008
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Extracting value from the forest: lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Acre landscape, Brazil written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis J. Mahar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region written by Dennis J. Mahar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Zanotti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534608
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon written by Laura Zanotti and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous groups are facing unprecedented global challenges in this time of unparalleled environmental and geopolitical change, a time that has intensified human-rights concerns and called for political and economic restructuring. Within this landscape of struggle, the Kayapó, an indigenous nation in the central Brazilian Amazon, emerge as leaders in the fight. Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods. Now at the front lines of cultivating diversified strategies for resistance, the Kayapó are creating a powerful activist base, experimenting with nontimber forest projects, and forging strong community conservation partnerships. Tracing the complex politics of the Kayapó’s homeland, Laura Zanotti advances approaches to understanding how indigenous peoples cultivate self-determination strategies in conflict-ridden landscapes. Kayapó peoples are providing a countervision of what Amazonia can look like in the twenty-first century, dominated neither by agro-industrial interests nor by uninhabited protected landscapes. Instead, Kayapó peoples see their homeland as a living landscape where indigenous vision engages with broader claims for conservation and development in the region. Weaving together anthropological and ethnographic research with personal interactions with the Kayapó, Zanotti tells the story of activism and justice in the Brazilian Amazon, and how Kayapó communities are using diverse pathways to make a sustainable future for their peoples and lands. The author interweaves Kayapó perspectives with a political ecology framework to show how working with indigenous peoples is vital to addressing national and global challenges in the present time, when many environmentally significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities.
Author : Antônio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Antônio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577639
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development written by Luiz C. Barbosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region, particularly for mineral ores, soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources.
Author : Stephen A. Vosti
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291324
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon written by Stephen A. Vosti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Author : Sérgio Margulis
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Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon written by Sérgio Margulis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report suggests that, in contrast to the 1970s and 1980s when occupation of Brazilian Amazonia was largely induced by government policies and subsidies, recent deforestation in significant parts of the region is basically caused by medium- and large-scale cattle ranching. Following a private rationale, the dynamics of the occupation process gradually became autonomous. Among the causes of the transformation are technological and managerial changes and the adaptation of cattle ranching to the geo-ecological conditions of eastern Amazonia which allowed for productivity gains and cost reductions. The fact that cattle ranching is viable from the private perspective does not mean that the activity is socially desirable nor environmentally sustainable. Private gains need to be contrasted with the environmental (social) costs associated with cattle ranching and deforestation. It also is legitimate to argue that the private benefits from large-scale cattle ranching are largely exclusive, having contributed little to alleviate social and economic inequalities. However, decreases in the price of beef in national markets and increases in exports caused by the expansion of cattle ranching in Eastern Amazonia may imply social benefits that go beyond sectoral and regional boundaries." --Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Rosa Cossío
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon written by Rosa Cossío and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review summarizes the published literature, as well as any available information provided by NGOs or project proponents, on the practice of community forest management (CFM) in the Peruvian Amazon. It provides an overview of literature related to land-use and forest management by rural populations in the Peruvian Amazon, placing this information in the broader context of the forestry sector in Peru. The review describes the different manifestations of CFM in Peru and the most widely studied cases of CFM projects. The document also examines some emerging initiatives, summarizes the main challenges for CFM and highlights important areas for future research. One key finding of this review is that there is a general lack of scientific analyses of CFM in Peru: most information is available only via project reports prepared by project proponents and/or donors. The review stresses that community forest management takes many forms. People throughout the Amazon have long relied on forest resources for their shifting cultivation systems, and timber and NTFPs are central to the livelihoods of many. Typically, forest use has occurred informally with little oversight or control by the state. Beginning in the 1980s, environmental NGOs have introduced CFM initiatives in Peru. To date, most CFM projects focus only on indigenous communities to support timber management; by contrast, scientific studies have focused on forest use within subsistence livelihood systems. Given that there are approximately 2 million non-indigenous rural Amazonians in Peru, the forest footprint and market impacts of non-indigenous smallholder forest management are likely to be much greater than recognized. However, very little is known about these endogenous smallholder-led systems. More research is needed to increase our understanding of the heterogeneity of these systems and the opportunities and challenges that they represent.
