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The fate of the forest : developers, destroyers, and defenders of the Amazon
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ISBN: 9780226322728 0226322726 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,


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The fate of the forest : developers, destroyers and defenders of the Amazon
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ISBN: 9780140133820 0140133828 Year: 1990 Publisher: London: Penguin books,

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The fate of the forest
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ISBN: 1283159708 9786613159700 0226322734 9780226322735 9780226322728 0226322726 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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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 1960's and 1970's, 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.


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From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia
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ISBN: 0816502374 0816599890 Year: 2013 Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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The Diversity and Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation : myths, Realities, and Policy Implications
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ISBN: 1569732302 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington World Resources Institute

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The social lives of forests
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ISBN: 022602413X 9780226024134 9780226322667 0226322661 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face-including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation-are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces-from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems-has masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence, even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores forests as places of significant human action, with complex institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain forests to timber farms, the face of forests-how we define, understand, and maintain them-is changing.


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Nature of Space
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ISBN: 1478013486 1478014407 1478021705 Year: 2021 Publisher: Duke University Press

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Globalization, forest resurgence, and environmental politics in El Salvador

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