Download or read book Modern Frontier Expansion in Brazil and Adjacent Amazonian Lands written by Kenneth Lederman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Frontier Expansion in Brazil and Adjacent Amazonian Lands written by Kenneth Lederman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Migrants To Amazonia written by Judith Lisansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of one Amazonian community located along the middle Araguaia River in the northeastern comer of the state of Mato Grosso. It is based on fourteen months of fieldwork in 1976, 1978, and 1979.
Download or read book Frontier expansion and land conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon written by Marianne Schmink and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forest Frontier written by Peter A. Furley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destructive patterns of Amazonian evolution are now infecting relatively untouched Northern Brazil - driven by the gold rush and demographic and economic forces from the South. The Forest Frontier assesses whether the Northern Amazonian States can avoid the same pressures and problems that affect the peoples and environments of the South. It examines the social and environmental nature of land development in Roraima, the most northerly of the Brazilian Amazonian states. Possessing most of the classic problems facing other States as well as containing a combination of political, cultural and environmental features, Roraima's development is at a frontier. Offering a critical assessment of the nature and pace of agricultural advance into Roraima, The Forest Frontier will provide a better understanding to plan for the inevitable development to come.
Download or read book International Amazonia written by Yolanda Butts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier Making in the Amazon written by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
Download or read book Land Gold and Farmers written by John Robert Butler and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Amazon Frontier written by John Hemming and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of the Indian tribes of Brazil is one of the great tragedies of Europe's involvement in South America. John Hemming's highly acclaimed 'Red Gold' told of the early conquest of the Indians by European settlers; 'Amazon Frontier' continues the tale. In 1755, after two hundred years of missionary control and appalling abuse by colonial settlers, the Portuguese governement issued legislation freeing the tribes. But the promised freedom proved to be an illusion: relaesed from the power of the Jesuits who had exploited them, the Indians now suffered even greater oppression at the hands of lay directors. As the colonial frontier pushed westwards into the immense territory of Brazil, stretching from the pampas of Uruguay to the rainforests of Amazonia, the Indians struggled to presserve their independence and their customs. Some tribes fought heroically, but their resistance was in vain; others tried to accommodate the advancing frontier, but were unable to withstand the profund cultural shock; a few, protected by impenetrable forests and rapid-infested rivers, survived with their cultures intact. Decimated by battle and imported disease, and deeply demoralised, the Indians were defeated, stripped of their traditional way of life and of their homelands. 'Amazon Frontier' covers the period from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century - a time which saw Brazil gain independence and change from an isolated colonial outpost to a modern nation, its economy transformed by coffee exports and the great Amazon rubber boom. It was also a time when naturalists flooded into Brazil, drawn by the environmental riches of its plains, forests and rivers, and when alongside the exploiters of Indians came philanthroposts and anthropologists enchanted by tribal cultures, authors romanticising the 'noble savage', and politicians and administrators agonising over the problem of turning the Indians into settled labourers. The first book to explore this vast subject, 'Amazon Frontier' is based on the extensive research from original sources that has made John Hemming the leading authority in his field. A moving and stirring book, it is the definitive account of a fascinating period of history.
Download or read book Contested Frontiers in Amazonia written by Marianne Schmink and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará.
Download or read book Implications of Satellite Communications for Amazon Frontier Expansion in Brazil written by Laura Raquel Wexler and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Gold and Farmers written by John Robert Butler and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin The frontier after a decade of colonisation written by John Hemming and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier Development Policy in Brazil written by Dennis J. Mahar and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development planning for Amazonia: past and present; Regional population and labor forece; The regional economy: an overview; Fiscal incentives of SUDAN.
Download or read book The Last Frontier written by Sue Branford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the violent arrival of capitalism in the Amazon region. After describing the original Indian population, the rise and fall of the rubber boom, and the slow influx of peasant families, explains how the military government encouraged powerful economic groups to move in and set up huge cattle ranches; describes the violent clashes between the companies and the peasant farmers, the suffering of the Indians, and the mounting ecological damage; reports extensively on two serious conflicts.
