Download or read book Voces de la Amazon a written by Julián Tole Martínez and published by Universidad Externado. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En esta obra colectiva se destaca el papel de los pueblos indígenas en favor de la conservación y protección del territorio amazónico como un elemento vital de sus prácticas, conocimientos y saberes ancestrales, los cuales constituyen una fuente única de aprendizaje para "deconstruir" el paradigma de desarrollo económico que, históricamente, se fundamenta en las prácticas del modelo extractivista y agroindustrial a gran escala en cada uno de los países amazónicos, tanto en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam como en Venezuela. Así, esta investigación invita a repensar el llamado "desarrollo" que. hoy por hoy, no puede limitarse a aspectos económicos, ni mucho menos entender la importancia de la Amazonía como un espacio de explotación de recursos naturales, es decir, cambiar el valor de "explotación" por protección, conservación y reparación del medio ambiente, al tiempo que de manera sostenible se logra satisfacer necesidades económicas y sociales de la actual generación, sin poner en riesgo a las futuras.
Download or read book Voces de la Amazon a Entre la conservaci n ancestral y la explotaci n econ mica de los recursos naturales written by Julián Tole Martínez and published by U. Externado de Colombia. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En esta obra colectiva se destaca el papel de los pueblos indígenas en favor de la conservación y protección del territorio amazónico como un elemento vital de sus prácticas, conocimientos y saberes ancestrales, los cuales constituyen una fuente única de aprendizaje para "deconstruir" el paradigma de desarrollo económico que, históricamente, se fundamenta en las prácticas del modelo extractivista y agroindustrial a gran escala en cada uno de los países amazónicos, tanto en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam como en Venezuela. Así, esta investigación invita a repensar el llamado "desarrollo" que. hoy por hoy, no puede limitarse a aspectos económicos, ni mucho menos entender la importancia de la Amazonía como un espacio de explotación de recursos naturales, es decir, cambiar el valor de "explotación" por protección, conservación y reparación del medio ambiente, al tiempo que de manera sostenible se logra satisfacer necesidades económicas y sociales de la actual generación, sin poner en riesgo a las futuras. Precisamente, este libro reúne el trabajo de expertos en distintas áreas de las ciencias sociales como el derecho, la antropología y la sociología, con autores de diferentes países de la región amazónica como Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, quienes han realizado un diagnóstico de la situación actual de la Amazonía, las problemáticas y soluciones presentes en el territorio. Por último, esta obra inspira a repensar la conservación de la Amazonía desde la ancestralidad de los pueblos indígenas, que implica integrar no solo los límites materiales o jurídicos de sus territorios, además, se debe tener en cuenta los vínculos espirituales que unen a dichas comunidades con el Amazonas.
Download or read book The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon written by João S. Campari and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'.
Download or read book Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest 1758 1911 written by Robin Leslie Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Society of Nature written by Philippe Descola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.
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.
Download or read book The Amazon River Forest written by Nigel J. H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The floodplain forest of the Amazon is the last agricultural frontier of the Americas, but its natural resource base is being threatened by agricultural expansion and impaired by inappropriate land-use. This text demonstrates that native knowledge offers vital insights for economic development.
Download or read book Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon written by Sérgio Margulis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
Download or read book Amazon a el r o tiene voces written by Ana Pizarro and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana Pizarro traza un "mapa de navegaci n" que invita a sumergirse en los discursos de la Amazon a a trav s de su geograf a cultural y su imaginario. a partir de las cr nicas de los exploradores y conquistadores, y las referencias literarias y cinematogr ficas, renueva las miradas existentes sobre la regi n, sin perder de vista los procesos culturales, sociales y geopol ticos que han influido en su devenir. Acompa ado por fotograf as e ilustraciones, este libro es imprescindible Para comprender una de las piezas fundamentales de la identidad latinoamericana y sus v nculos con el continente.
Download or read book Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon written by Charles H. Wood and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. This book is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region.
Download or read book The Fate of the Forest written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of conquistadors, in centuries of slavery, in the schemes of Brazil’s military dictators in the 1960s and 1970s, and in new globalized economies where Brazilian soy and beef now dominate, while the market in carbon credits raises the value of standing forest. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn show in compelling detail the panorama of destruction as it unfolded, and also reveal the extraordinary turnaround that is now taking place, thanks to both the social movements, and the emergence of new environmental markets. Exploring the role of human hands in destroying—and saving—this vast forested region, The Fate of the Forest pivots on the murder of Chico Mendes, the legendary labor and environmental organizer assassinated after successful confrontations with big ranchers. A multifaceted portrait of Eden under siege, complete with a new preface and afterword by the authors, this book demonstrates that those who would hold a mirror up to nature must first learn the lessons offered by some of their own people.
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 Dam the Rivers Damn the People written by Barbara J. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous coverage has been given to the destruction of the rainforests in Brazil, and there is worldwide concern over the loss of species and the consequences for the greenhouse effect. Most of the coverage, however, has focussed on the slash and burn policies of land-hungry farmers, whereas perhaps the greatest threat to the forest, and to the people indigenous to it, comes from the enormous hydro-electric schemes under construction there. Not only do they destroy much forest themselves, they encourage further industrial and agricultural colonization, and they dispossess tens of thousands of Indians.
Download or read book Creating Dialogues written by Hanne Veber and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Dialogues discusses contemporary forms of leadership in a variety of Amazonian indigenous groups. Examining the creation of indigenous leaders as political subjects in the context of contemporary state policies of democratization and exploitation of natural resources, the book addresses issues of resilience and adaptation at the level of local community politics in lowland South America. Contributors investigate how indigenous peoples perceive themselves as incorporated into the structures of states and how they tend to see the states as accomplices of the private companies and non-indigenous settlers who colonize or devastate indigenous lands. Adapting to the impacts of changing political and economic environments, leaders adopt new organizational forms, participate in electoral processes, become adept in the use of social media, experiment with cultural revitalization and new forms of performance designed to reach non-indigenous publics, and find allies in support of indigenous and human rights claims to secure indigenous territories and conditions for survival. Through these multiple transformations, the new styles and manners of leadership are embedded in indigenous notions of power and authority whose shifting trajectories predate contemporary political conjunctures. Despite the democratization of many Latin American countries and international attention to human rights efforts, indigenous participation in political arenas is still peripheral. Creating Dialogues sheds light on dramatic, ongoing social and political changes within Amazonian indigenous groups. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnology, Latin American studies, and indigenous studies, as well as governmental and nongovernmental organizations working with Amazonian groups. Contributors: Jean-Pierre Chaumeil, Gérard Collomb, Luiz Costa, Oscar Espinosa, Esther López, Valéria Macedo, José Pimenta, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Terence Turner, Hanne Veber, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Download or read book Environment and the Law in Amazonia written by JAMES M. HUNEFELDT COOPER (CHRISTINE.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book & CD. There are few topics so large yet so uncovered in the academic literature as the Amazon Basin. Much of the area that connects nine South American states, hundreds of indigenous peoples, dozens of multinational corporations, and the world s lungs, remains unexplored and demographic density is still low. But development throughout the basin has occurred with a ravaging appetite: loggers have decimated parts of the region with their fishbone patterns of extraction; large-scale agribusiness has moved into a power vacuum; coffee and sugar in earlier times -- soya, ranching, and mining industries in more recent times -- have resulted in significant deforestation, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; and the booms and busts of traditional commodities like rubber latex, nuts and turtle eggs impact negatively on the social and economic structure of the basin. In the background to these developments there is a resurgence of economic nationalism as countries prepare their futures around a pending crisis over food security and global climate change.Hydrocarbons potentials -- the possibility of oil and gas fields underground in Amazonia -- complicate the situation as indigenous communities, sharecroppers, landless peasants, and others advocate for their respective rights, using ancient methods of protest as well as digital activism through the Internet. This important book sets out how the Amazon Basin s indigenous self-determination meets corporate profiteering, where the future of natural resource stewardship is hotly debated, where subsistence living, extreme poverty, and the vagaries of the international commodities markets are revealed. The environment and the law is seen to be at the heart of the intersection of sustainable development and unfair trading practices.
Download or read book Oil Sparks in the Amazon written by Patricia I. Vasquez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"-the paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oil jobs that are promised but never materialize, etc.-primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. Vasquez spent fifteen years making regular field visits to the oil-producing regions of Latin America and conducting hundreds of interviews with the various stakeholders in these local conflicts. Her book, based on this field research, analyzes the dynamics that characterize each of fifty-five social and environmental conflicts related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia). She is interested not in promulgating a new theory of conflict but in examining the triggers of local hydrocarbons disputes and providing policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them"--
Download or read book Amazon Basin written by Nicolás Rojas and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonian rain forest forms one of the most precious ecosystems and provides habitat for more than 50% of plant and animal species. This unique ecosystem is highly disturbed by human activities, which causes biodiversity losses. Biodiversity monitoring and conservation plays one of the most important roles of tropical environment protection. This book focuses on the assessment of species diversity and species richness in various land use systems. This book also discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the Brazilian ecotourism industry and the establishment of an eco-triple helix in the Brazilian Amazon region. Over the past two decades, the international community has become aware of the global and regional environmental risks associated with possible massive forest losses in the Brazilian Amazon. The authors of this book investigate the stochastic and dynamic relationship of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. Other chapters in this book examine the main deforestation drivers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforests, the various factors (i.e., geological age, habitat heterogeneity) that generate and maintain fish species diversity in Amazon floodplain lakes, and the causes and effects of fish contamination due to malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon.
