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Governing the Rainforest

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190949406
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Rainforest written by Eve Z. Bratman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.

Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region

Author : Miguel Clüsener-Godt
Publisher : Unesco ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; Pearl River, N.Y., USA : Parthenon Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region written by Miguel Clüsener-Godt and published by Unesco ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; Pearl River, N.Y., USA : Parthenon Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very often, the reports and commentaries come from outside the countries and peoples of the region, while much of the thinking about Amazonia from within is not widely known or accessible.

Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

Author : Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann
Publisher : Götz Kaufmann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development written by Götz Ferdinand Kaufmann and published by Götz Kaufmann. This book was released on 2012 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brazilian Amazon

Author : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319230301
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Brazilian Amazon written by Joana Bezerra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Governing the Rainforest

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190949419
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Rainforest written by Eve Z. Bratman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development is among the foremost ideas that guide societal aspirations around the world. This text interrogates the concept through a critical lens, examining both its history and the trajectory of its manifestations in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761815228
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)

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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.

Sustainable Amazon

Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821350317
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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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.

The Environment, Sustainable Development, and Public Policies

Author : Cl¢vis de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782541257
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Environment, Sustainable Development, and Public Policies written by Cl¢vis de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government policy for sustainable development: Building sustainability in Brazil. Towards sustainable development. Sacale, ecological economics and the conservation of biodiversity. Environmental valuation in the quest for a sustainable future. Achieving a sustainable world. Policies for sustainable development. Green accounting and macroeconomic policy. A politico-communicative model to overcome the impasse of the current politico-technical model for environmental negotiation in Brazil. Agenda 21: a sustainable development strategy supported by participatory decision-marking processe. International prevate finance and sustainable development: policy instruments for Brazil. Enviromental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia. Exploitation of biodiversity and indigenous Knowledge in Latin America: Challenges to sovereignty and the old order.

The Future of Amazonia

Author : A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349210684
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Amazonia written by A. Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-01-12 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rethinking the Brazilian Amazon

Author : Ana Yang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784134969
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Brazilian Amazon written by Ana Yang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian Amazon has long been a symbol of natural and cultural wealth, suggesting mythical abundance and vast untapped potential. Yet vast swathes of the tropical forest are destroyed each year, and it is at risk of turning into a degraded savannah. The Amazon could support a rich bioeconomy, but this will not be accomplished without land-use planning that reflects the priorities of Brazil’s diverse society and promotes a balance between environmental, social and economic goals. Law enforcement, transparent land titling efforts and a broad economic and social agenda are all essential to advance the agenda of a sustainable Amazon – as is the active participation of indigenous and traditional populations in the design of lasting solutions for the region. The international community can help to address many of the underlying causes of deforestation, but a strategy for the Amazon needs to acknowledge the complexity of the region, including the balance between conservation and development goals. An international agenda to foster the conservation of the forest and its biodiversity, to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change must be undertaken in partnership with the Brazilian people.

Sustainable Development in Amazonia

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179623
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development in Amazonia written by Kei Otsuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable development policies through the ethnography of an Amazonian settlement named New Paradise. This book demystifies utopian and overtly conservationist views that depict the Amazon rainforest as a troubled paradise. Engaging with social theory of practice with particular focus on emergentist perspectives and Foucault’s analysis of ‘heterotopia’, the author shows that Amazonia is a set of settlement heterotopias in which various local and external initiatives interact to make up real, lived-in places. The settlers’ placemaking continually rearranges power and material relations while the process usually emphasises utopian developmentalist and conservationist policy intervention. This book explores in detail how, as power relations are arranged and governance reshaped, sustainable development and construction of a green society also need to become a goal for the settlers themselves. The book’s insights on the relationship between the sustainable development frameworks used in environmental policy, and ongoing societal development on the ground inform debate both within Amazonia, and in comparable communities worldwide. It also offers institutional pathways to realise new, more engaging, policy intervention for development professionals and policy makers.

Dam the Rivers, Damn the People

Author : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113404433X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Dam the Rivers, Damn the People written by Barbara J. Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the massive hydro-electric schemes which are being pushed ahead with little regard to efficacy, the rights of the people, or the survival of the forest. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People is about two of the most affected areas, Balbina in Amazonas and the Xingu River in Para. Barbara Cummings describes the plans which the state attempted to keep secret, the extent to which these projects will destroy the forest, the consequent dispossession of the people of the forest and, above all, their growing resistance. She shows how the outcome of their fight affects us all. Originally published in 1990

Sustainable Development

Author : Constance Marie Botelho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development written by Constance Marie Botelho and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sustainable Development in Practice

Author : Virgílio M. Viana
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697734
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development in Practice written by Virgílio M. Viana and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577639
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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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.

Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon written by Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amazonia at the Crossroads

Author : Anthony L. Hall
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazonia at the Crossroads written by Anthony L. Hall and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 1990s, it seemed that Amazonia had become irrevocably trapped in a downward spiral of deforestation, environmental destruction and social conflict. Yet over the past ten years a more acute awareness has emerged at all levels, national and international, of the need to encourage more sustainable policies and practices. That is, measures that provide for the economic development needs of Amazonia's diverse population, while at the same time conserving and managing the region's natural resource base. At a major conference, organised in London in June 1998 by the Institute of Latin American Studies (Amazonia 2000: Development, Environment and Geopolitics), over twenty international scholars traced the evolution of this gradual shift in thinking. The present volume, based on that conference, examines past patterns of destructive resource extraction in Amazonia and, more importantly, critically analyses a series of newer initiatives that offer more sustainable options. These include, amongst others, new production strategies, such as agroforestry, innovative resource governance models such as inland fisheries co-management and agro-ecological zoning. The challenge at this critical juncture is how to integrate such policies and practices into mainstream development within Amazonia. Contributors: David Cleary, René Dreifuss, Philip Fearnside, Jessica Groenendijk, Anthony Hall, Judith Kimerling, Tom Lovejoy, Dennis Mahar, David McGrath, Emilio Moran, Darrel Posey, Nigel Smith, and Wouter Veening.