Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
(Part of the Biology and Resource Management Series Series)
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Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power. The analysis of these contests illustrates how national and international factors often shaped events at the local level, thereby propelling the story of frontier expansion in different and unexpected directions.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231076606
ISBN13:9780231076609
Release Date:April 1992
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:387 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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