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The Amazon of Brazil

Author : John Waggoner
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1588437930
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Amazon of Brazil written by John Waggoner and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookdivides the immense Amazonian region into western and eastern sections, as each has its own unique characteristics. The Western Amazon is the state of Amazonas on the border with Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. In this region of the Amazon nearly 98% of the rainforest is unspoiled. It is here where the pristine headwaters of the Amazon - the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes - come down from the Andes, far from the modern world. The main port of entry for exploring this region is the jungle metropolis called Manaus. On the eastern side of the Amazon, there are some amazingly beautiful destinations, but there are fewer options as the region has been partially deforested and basic transportation and infrastructure are problematic. The top destination on the eastern side is Pará state, with its rich cultural life, the exotic capital Belém, nearby Ilha de Marajó, and Santarém, up the Amazon River near the border with Amazonas. The author, a longtime resident of Brazil, is Latin America news director for ICIS, an international news agency. The best hotels for every budget are detailed, from beach resorts to country inns, restaurants, attractions and activities are detailed in the cities, towns and villages. Shop-till-you-drop ideas for crystals, native handicrafts, Amazonian fetishes and more. The history, culture and music of the country are examined up-close, taking you into Brazil's samba schools, rainforests and amazing nightlife. Includes an easy-to-use language primer.

In Search of the Amazon

Author : Seth Garfield
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377179
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Amazon written by Seth Garfield and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577647
Total Pages : 249 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 249 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.

The Amazon Basin Brazil Nut Industry

Author : Walter R. Schreiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazon Basin Brazil Nut Industry written by Walter R. Schreiber and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : Ed Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220508
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon written by Ed Atkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of ‘contested sustainability’ that highlights the need for sustainable energy transitions to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed ‘sustainable.’ Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a ‘green’ energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes studied as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, sustainable energy transitions, environmental justice, environmental governance, and development studies.

The Man Who Swam the Amazon

Author : Martin Strel
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 0857653237
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Swam the Amazon written by Martin Strel and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2007, after 66 days, Martin Strel became the first person to swim the Amazon, 3,274 miles from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic shores of Brazil. On this extraordinary journey he dodged piranhas, met indigenous tribes and swam from dawn to dusk for 60 miles every single day. His story is an inspiration to people everywhere.

Key Geography Lower Ability Support Pack

Author :
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 0748739564
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Key Geography Lower Ability Support Pack written by and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specially for lower-ability pupils at Key Stage 3, this is one of four packs for use as part of the Key Geography series in a mixed-ability classroom. They are also suitable for use in conjunction with any Key Stage 3 textbook series to support pupils who, for whatever reason, find the traditional geography textbook too demanding.

Brazil

Author : Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610692586
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, this one-stop reference explores everything that makes up modern Brazil, including its geography, politics, pop culture, social media, daily life, and much more. Home to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games—and one of the world's fastest-growing economies—Brazil is quickly becoming a prominent player on the international stage. This book captures the essence of the nation and its people in a unique, topically organized volume. Narrative chapters written by expert contributors examine geography, history, government and politics, economics, society, culture, and contemporary issues, making Brazil an ideal one-stop reference for high school and undergraduate students. Coverage on religion, ethnicity, marriage and sexuality, education, literature and drama, art and architecture, music and dance, food, leisure and sport, and media provides a comprehensive look at this giant South American country—the largest nation in Latin America as well as the fifth largest nation in the world. Students will be engaged by up-to-the-minute coverage of topics such as daily life, social media, and pop culture in Brazil. Sidebars and photos highlight interesting facts and people, while a glossary, a chart of holidays, and an annotated bibliography round out the work.

Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations

Author : Pardeep Singh
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128183403
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations written by Pardeep Singh and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations: Technologies, Challenges, Strategies, and Policies addresses issues of water resources—including combined sewer system overflows—assessing effects on water quality standards and protecting surface and sub-surface potable water from the intrusion of saline water due to sea level rise. The book's chapters incorporate both policies and practical aspects and serve as baseline information for future adaption plans in BRICS nations. Users will find detailed important information that is ideal for policymakers, water management specialists, BRICS nation undergraduate or university students, teachers and researchers. - Presents tools and techniques that can be used to preserve water resources, including groundwater and surface water - Provides geophysical methods to quantitatively monitor physical earth processes associated with water resources, such as contaminant transport and ecological and climate change investigations and monitoring - Includes desalination techniques which can solve the issue of scarce drinking water

The State of Amazon, Brazil

Author : Amazonas (Brazil)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Amazon, Brazil written by Amazonas (Brazil) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rubber Production in the Amazon Valley

Author : William Lytle Schurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Rubber Production in the Amazon Valley written by William Lytle Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 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.

Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches

Author : Daniel Parish Kidder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches written by Daniel Parish Kidder and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frommer's? Brazil

Author : Alexandra de Vries
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118086066
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Frommer's? Brazil written by Alexandra de Vries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides description, costs, and contact information on transportation, hotels, restaurants, shopping, beaches, cultural activities, and organized tours.

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry

Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351717944
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry written by Stephen Nugent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Rubber Industry of the Amazon and how Its Supremacy Can be Maintained

Author : Joseph Froude Woodroffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Rubber Industry of the Amazon and how Its Supremacy Can be Maintained written by Joseph Froude Woodroffe and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rubber Country of the Amazon

Author : Henry Clemens Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Rubber Country of the Amazon written by Henry Clemens Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed description of the great rubber industry of the Amazon Valley, which comprises the Brazilian States of Pará, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, the Territory of the Acre, the Montaña of Peru and Bolivia, and the Southern portions of Colombia and Venezuela.