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Author : Gary H. Toenniessen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Profile of the Amazon Basin and Its Agricultural Development Potential written by Gary H. Toenniessen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary H. Toenniessen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Profile of the Amazon Basin and Its Agricultural Development Potential written by Gary H. Toenniessen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 112 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 : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Developing the Amazon written by Emilio F. Moran and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazon basin: problems and potential of a vast rain forest. Tropical rain forest ecosystems. Aboriginal use of amazonian resources. The impact of colonialism and an extractive economy. Migration to the amazon. Types of settlements and types of migrants. The use of forest resources in the transamazon. Agriculture in the transamazon. Social and intitutional life. Health, diet, and disease. Levels of analysis in Amazonian research.
Author : Arisbe Mendoza Escalante
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3865374581
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Smallholder Agricultural Production in the Eastern Amazon written by Arisbe Mendoza Escalante and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merle D. Faminow
Publisher : Wallingford [England] : CAB International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cattle, Deforestation, and Development in the Amazon written by Merle D. Faminow and published by Wallingford [England] : CAB International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large-scale destruction of tropical rain forests and the consequences of the loss of their rich, complex ecosystems is one of the most well-publicised, globally important environmental issues of the late twentieth century. The bulk of the remaining forest is to be found in the Amazon Basin, largely in Brazil and the rapid expansion of cattle ranching has been implicated as the main cause of irreversible deforestation in this part of South America over the last decade. This book brings together and critically assesses the economic, agronomic and environmental evidence for the benefits and costs of cattle ranching in the Amazon region. The ecology of the Amazon rain forest is described, along with methods of economic valuation of forests, agricultural systems in the Amazon, the history and underlying causes of its colonisation and the effects on land use, and the extent of deforestation. This leads on to a more detailed description of the cattle ranching systems employed in the Amazon, their economics and effects on the forest. In conclusion, the potential for sustainable cattle production in the Amazon is discussed. The product of considerable field research in Brazil by the author, this book presents a positive perspective on a highly controversial topic, in a uniquely systematic way and with far-reaching implications. It is an essential purchase for livestock economists, agronomists, foresters and environmentalists with an interest in South American and other tropical regions. It will also be a valuable source for advanced students of agronomy, animal science, agricultural economics and ecology.
Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821350317
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Amazon written by Robert R. Schneider and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This report adds to the discussion of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It analyzes the harmful effects of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement and productivity.
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009679
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers written by John Hemming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009679
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers written by John Hemming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Chibnik
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816514828
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Risky Rivers written by Michael Chibnik and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While anthropologists and ecologists have carefully described the activities of the slash-and-burn cultivators, ranchers, and miners of tropical South America, they have largely overlooked the economic strategies and political struggles of riverine people who survive by flood-recession agriculture and fishing. These ribere_os, who constitute the majority of the inhabitants of the Amazonian floodplains of Peru, have developed ecologically sustainable resource management practices that enable them to cope with periodic inundations of their fields by "risky rivers." They have, however, suffered greatly from unpredictable crop prices and erratic state agricultural policies. Michael Chibnik here examines the household economies, cultural ecology, grassroots political organizations of ribere_os living in three floodplain villages near Iquitos, Peru. He describes the villagers' remarkable history, their participation in misconceived development programs, and their longstanding conflicts with regional elites. Chibnik discusses the political ecology of the region in the context of arguments about appropriate development policies in tropical lowlands. Although ribere_os practice intensive agriculture with low environmental impact, they have not been able to improve their economic circumstances in recent years. Chibnik's study is a significant and timely contribution to current debates about the possibility of sustainable, equitable development in Amazonia.
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009686
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin written by John Hemming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert David Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Measuring Rates of Colonization in the Amazon Basin written by Robert David Gould and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Goulding
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048185207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Man and Fisheries on an Amazon Frontier written by M. Goulding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondönia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest fron tier. In Brazil the name Rondönia evokes exaggerated images of lawlessness, land feuding, and indigent peasants in search of a homestead. Despite the problems and the perception, the region has pushed ahead, in the view of the govern ment, with large-scale deforestation and the establishment of cattle ranches and agricultural farms raising manioc, rice, bananas, and other cash crops. The mining industry has been launched with the exploitation oftin stone, and the recent gold rush has attracted thousands of miners that are sifting alluvial deposits along the rivers for the precious ore. In an energy-short world, the region boasts of its large hydroelectric potential waiting development in the rivers falling off the Brazilian Shield and draining into the Rio Madeira. Planners are optimistic that Rondönia's resources, once developed, will more than justify, at least in this corner of the rainforest frontier, the Economic Conquest ofthe Amazon. Sandwiched between the economic take-off and the dream, however, are the biological resources - the plants and animals - that must serve as sources of energy and food until human dominated ecosystems replace naturaiones. These resources are, ofnecessity, being heavily attacked to support the shaky economy of the region, but they are very poorly understood in terms of potential productivity and proper management.
Author : Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher : CIAT
ISBN 13 : 8489206139
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Amazonia, Agriculture and Land Use Research written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1982 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Fletcher Marbut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Soils of the Amazon Basin in Relation to Agricultural Possibilities written by Curtis Fletcher Marbut and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emilio F Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315932
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development written by Emilio F Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
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.
