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Environmental Issues
Books about environmental issues in Brazil, the Amazon basin, the Atlantic rain forest (mata atlantica), and Brazilian cerrado, caatinga, sertao, and other ecosystems.
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Broadax And Firebrand:
The Destruction Of The Atlantic Rain Forest
by Warren Dean
A history of human occupation in Brazil's
Atlantic Forest, located in the country's most densely populated region, from an
environmental perspective, detailing the devastation wrought to the region by
mining, slash and burn farming, coffee, and industrialization, and the battles
between conservationists and developers in the late 20th century. Discusses the
evolution of technologies used to exploit the forest, and the role of social and
cultural forces.
After
The Trees: Living On
The Transamazon Highway
by Douglas Ian Stewart
The Atlantic Forest Of South America:
Biodiversity Status, Threats, And Outlook (Hardcover)
The Atlantic Forest Of South America (Paperback)
Carlos Galindo-Leal and Ibsen De Gusmao Camara
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Global
Ecopolitics, Development And Democracy
by Luiz C. Barbosa
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.
Ecopolitics Of Development In The Third
World: Politics And Environment In Brazil
by Robert A. Guimaraes
In Amazonia: A Natural History
Paperback by Hugh Raffles
In The
Rainforest: Report From
A Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
by Catherine Caulfield
"I recommend
In The Rainforest
as scientific journalism at its best, and [Caufield's] book as the one to read
to become informed about the tropical crisis. Caufield traveled the world, went
to the difficult places, sometimes beautiful and often dispiriting, mastered the
important ideas, and talked to an impressive number of people on all sides of
the issues. . . . There are villains in abundance: corrupt government agents who
aid in the destruction of native tribes, greedy caballero landowners, and
even the governmental planners who with the best of intentions rush heedlessly
toward the environmental degradation of their own countries."--E. O. Wilson,
Science
The Pantanal: Understanding And
Preserving The World's Largest Wetland
edited by Frederick Swarts
So Fruitful A Fish: Ecology, Conservation,
And Aquaculture Of The Amazon's Tambaqui
by Michael Guilding
Tales
Of A Shaman's Apprentice:
An Ethnobotanist Searches For New
Medicines In The Amazon Rain Forest
by Mark Plotkin
Entangled Edens: Visions Of The Amazon
by Candace Slater
Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier
by Richard W. Slatta
Amazon & Rainforest Ambient Sounds CDs
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