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Author : Georgia Ottoni Carvalho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Amazon Policy in Brazil Since 1988 written by Georgia Ottoni Carvalho and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgia Ottoni Carvalho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Amazon Policy in Brazil Since 1988 written by Georgia Ottoni Carvalho and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319230301
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
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.
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 : Seth Garfield
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377179
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
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.
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 : Lee J. Alston
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024280
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Titles, Conflict, and Land Use written by Lee J. Alston and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use examines the institutional development involved in the process of land use and ownership in the Amazon and shows how this phenomenon affects the behavior of the economic actors. It explores the way in which the absence of well-defined property rights in the Amazon has led to both economic and social problems, including lost investment opportunities, high costs in protecting claims, and violence. The relationship between land reform and violence is given special attention. The book offers an important application of the New Institutional Economics by examining a rare instance where institutional change can be empirically observed. This allows the authors to study property rights as they emerge and evolve and to analyze the effects of Amazon development on the economy. In doing so they illustrate well the point that often the evolution of economic institutions will not lead to efficient outcomes. This book will be important not only to economists but also to Latin Americanists, political scientists, anthropologists, and scholars in disciplines concerned with the environment. Lee Alston is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gary Libecap is Professor of Economics and Law, University of Arizona, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bernardo Mueller is Assistant Professor, Universidade de Brasilia.
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 : 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 : U.s. Naval Postgraduate School
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499733143
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Defending the Amazon written by U.s. Naval Postgraduate School and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between development and conservation remains salient with today's focus on global climate change. This conflict is seen most clearly in the Brazilian Amazon. International, developed nations advocate conservation, while developing nations fight for progress. Conservationists expect international organizations, developed nations, and domestic grassroots organizations to pressure the Brazilian government in conserving the Amazon. Development advocates point to the need to stabilize Brazil's economy and expand into the Amazon for its untapped resources. To understand the impasse between these two forces, one must look to a third actor: the Brazilian military. This thesis examines the critical role of the military in Amazonian policy. Guaranteeing Brazil's borders and national security, the military views its infiltration of the Amazon as part of its mission. It also sees development and population increase as tools the government must use to increase sovereignty over the Amazon. This thesis concludes that the military and its concerns must be addressed before development policy in the Amazon can incorporate conservation. The Amazon must be conserved as a global resource, but will continue to be developed until the military's role and views are changed.
Author : John H. Galey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Politics of Development in the Brazilian Amazon, 1940-1950 written by John H. Galey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelton H. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521217385
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Victims of the Miracle written by Shelton H. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian government's effort to develop the immense Amazon region has created widespread controversy. Written in a clear, nonacademic style, Victims of the Miracle is the first in-depth account by an anthropologist of the social and environmental impact of the Amazon development program. Shelton Davis begins with an examination of the economic history of the Amazon Basin from World War II through the building of the Trans-Amazon Highway in 1970. He then analyzes contemporary Indian policy in Brazil and discusses the effects that highway construction and mining development projects have had on a number of Indian tribes. He also describes the rise of agribusiness in Brazil and the environmental damage caused by the recent deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon.
Author : Alisha E. Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Defending the Amazon written by Alisha E. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between development and conservation remains salient with today's focus on global climate change. This conflict is seen most clearly in the Brazilian Amazon. International, developed nations advocate conservation, while developing nations fight for progress. Conservationists expect international organizations, developed nations, and domestic grassroots organizations to pressure the Brazilian government in conserving the Amazon. Development advocates point to the need to stabilize Brazil's economy and expand into the Amazon for its untapped resources. To understand the impasse between these two forces, one must look to a third actor: the Brazilian military. This thesis examines the critical role of the military in Amazonian policy. Guaranteeing Brazil's borders and national security, the military views its infiltration of the Amazon as part of its mission. It also sees development and population increase as tools the government must use to increase sovereignty over the Amazon. This thesis concludes that the military and its concerns must be addressed before development policy in the Amazon can incorporate conservation. The Amazon must be conserved as a global resource but will continue to be developed until the military's role and views are changed.
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 : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134044267
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
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 149 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
Author : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Deforestation, Development, and Government Policy in the Brazilian Amazon written by Lykke E. Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antoine Acker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107197422
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Volkswagen in the Amazon written by Antoine Acker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.
