Download or read book Balance is Beautiful Assessing Sustainable Development in the Rain Forests of the Bolivian Amazonia written by Alan Jorge Bojanic Helbingen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Peasants written by Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.
Download or read book The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia written by Pitou van Dijck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme. IIRSA aims at facilitating intra-regional trade and at improving trade and transport links with world markets. This is the first book on IIRSA and its potential implications for South America and more specifically for Amazonia. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure programme and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories. To deepen our understanding of the potential impacts of roads in these areas, the book combines insights from economic and environmental sciences and gives a critical review of traditional assessments and strategic environmental assessments (SEAs). A comprehensive approach of assessing impacts is presented in three case studies of SEAs: the Corredor Norte in Bolivia, the road between Manaus and Porto Velho in Brazil, and the proposed road to link Suriname with Brazil.
Download or read book Dignity for the Voiceless written by Ton Salman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand “people without voice” but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’s best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.
Download or read book Wild Product Governance written by Sarah A. Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Forests Trees and Livelihoods written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Timber Certification and Management of Non timber Forest Products written by Patricia Shanley and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focus on forest management standards. NTFPs within the forest management certification framework: chalenges and recommendations. Accessibility and applicability of NTFP certification. A Country case study: NTFP certification in Brazil. Opportunities and challenges of NTFP certification. Social opportunities and challenges. Market and economic opportunities and challenges. Legal and institutional opportunities and challenges. Broader applications for standards and certification. Collaboration and Harmonization: the way forward?.
Download or read book Research Abstracts written by Center for International Forestry Research and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Role of Informal Institutions in the Use of Forest Resources in Latin America written by Pablo Pacheco and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Social Ecology of Tropical Forests written by Wil de Jong and published by Trans Pacific Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Ecology of Tropical Forests brings together various analyses from the three major tropical regions-Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Sub-Saharan Africa-and by challenging simplistic correlations, the authors explore the complex relationships between deforestation and migration. The book provides both an historical overview of migration into these regions, and presents contemporary case studies to reveal the complex interplay of factors motivating migration. The scope of the discussion is extensive, covering historical issues such as the impact of the slave trade on Sub-Saharan African forests and communities, and contemporary dilemmas like the over-exploitation of natural forest products in Vietnam. The authors look at the broader picture of intertwining political, social, geographical, environmental, and historical influences, without seeking quick-fix solutions to the social and environmental issues arising from increasing forest cover loss. The analyses are spatially and temporally contextualized, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data to provide a useful resource for studying the societies of tropical regions and their social ecology.
Download or read book Non wood News written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Research on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Amazonian Rain Forest and Its Information Requirements written by Reinhard Lieberei and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization of research for the development of the amazon region; How research can contribute to the sustainable use of the amazon; Technology transfer to the private sector; European research activities on sustainable management of the amazon region; State-of-the-art of information sources in brazilian amazon and amazonian information systems; Perspectives and trends in global information management; The transfer and application of research results: how to link the science-business with the development-business; Introductory statements of the working group I: socio-economic implication; Amazonia: conflict and violence a threat to sustainable development; Legal aspects concerning the conservation and sustainable use of amazonian forest; Social and economicimplications of recent strategies for amazonia: a critical assessment; Land tenure, forms of production and environment in the amazon region; Conservation and sustainable development in amazonia: the programme on south-south co-operation on environmentally sound socio-economic development in the humid tropics; Carbon balance and tropical ecosystems, problems of measurement and scaling up; LBA - the large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in amazonia; Deforestation and use of soil as pasture: climatic impacts; Biodiversity and economic botany; Sustainable land use systems for the amazon region; Pastures on amazonian forestlands: a review of environmental and economic performance; Agroforestry.
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:
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Research on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Amazonian Rain Forest and Its Information Requirements written by R. Lieberei and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization of research for the development of the Amaznon region; How research research can contribute to the sustainable use the Amazon; Technology transfer to the private sector; European research activities on sustainable management of the Amaznom region; State-of-the-art of information sources in brazilian Amazon and Amazonian information systems; Pesrpectives and trends in global information management; The transfer and application of research resultads: how to link the 'science-business' with the development-business; Amazonia: conflict and violence a threat to sustainable development; Legal aspects concerning the conservation and sustainable use of amazonian forest; Social and economic implications of recent strategies for Amazonia: a critical assessment; Land tenure, forms of production and envirinment in the amazon region; Conservation and sustainable development in Amazonia: the programme on south-south co-operation on environmentally sound socio-economic development in the humic tropics; Carbon balance and tropical ecosystems, problems of measurement and scaling up; LBA - the large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia; Deforestation and use of soil as pasture: climate impacts; Biodiversity and economic botany; Sustainable land use systems for the Amazon region; Pasture on Amazonian forestlands: a review of environmental and economic perfomance; Agroforestry; Multidisciplinary research on tropical forest ecosystem in french guyana and information system; Utilization of forest products for Amazonian development: potencial and limitation; Human carrying capacity estimation Brazilian Amazonia: research requirements to provide a basis for sustainable development; Orstom's cooperative researches in Brazilian Amazonia: a brief overview.
Download or read book The Rain Forest Imperative written by Conservation International and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
