Amaz Nia
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Contesting Hydropower In The Brazilian Amazon
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Author : Ed Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-15
Contesting Hydropower In The Brazilian Amazon written by Ed Atkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with Business & Economics categories.
In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of ‘contested sustainability’ that highlights the need for sustainable energy transitions to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed ‘sustainable.’ Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a ‘green’ energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes studied as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, sustainable energy transitions, environmental justice, environmental governance, and development studies.
Environment And Development
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Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-04
Environment And Development written by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-04 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development. The book undertakes a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South. The book explores one of the main contradictions of development, the simplification of assessments and narrow consideration of alternatives. Taking this dilemma as its departure point, it goes on to examine the justification, trends and limitations of Western-based development and possible alternatives to fundamentally modify the basis and the rationale of the development process. It considers theoretical and lived experiences of development, paying attention to multiple scales, local realities and economic frontiers. Contributing authors explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources. They cover the monitoring of change in the provision of ecosystem services that might increase the well-being of vulnerable groups as well as strategies to promote innovation and integrated, equitable and sustainable development.
Amazonian Geographies
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Author : Jacqueline Vadjunec
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-16
Amazonian Geographies written by Jacqueline Vadjunec and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Science categories.
Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.
Proc Of The Fourth Brazilian Symp On Mathematical And Computational Biology Vol 1 First International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology
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language : en
Publisher: Editora E-papers
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Proc Of The Fourth Brazilian Symp On Mathematical And Computational Biology Vol 1 First International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology written by and has been published by Editora E-papers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
United States Trotting Association Register
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Author : United States Trotting Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
United States Trotting Association Register written by United States Trotting Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Horses categories.
International Wooden Furniture Markets
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Author : International Trade Centre
language : en
Publisher: United Nations
Release Date : 2005-11-03
International Wooden Furniture Markets written by International Trade Centre and has been published by United Nations this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-03 with Political Science categories.
This publication presents a Review of wooden furniture markets in United States, Canada, China, Japan, Egypt, and selected countries in the European Union. For each country, it provides an overview of market trends and developments; distribution channels and market access conditions; as well as international and national certification schemes in the furniture sector. It also identifies furniture networks and clusters, outlines strategy for developing a wooden furniture sector in tropical countries, and more.
Exploration Of The Valley Of The Amazon
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Author : William Lewis Herndon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Exploration Of The Valley Of The Amazon written by William Lewis Herndon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Amazon River Valley categories.
Agroforestry For Sustainable Land Use Fundamental Research And Modelling With Emphasis On Temperate And Mediterranean Applications
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Author : Daniel Auclair
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Agroforestry For Sustainable Land Use Fundamental Research And Modelling With Emphasis On Temperate And Mediterranean Applications written by Daniel Auclair and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This volume comprises a selection of original contributions presented at a workshop held in Montpellier, France, in June 1997. The two main objectives of the workshop were, firstly, to bring together what is understood about the processes underlying agroforestry practice, and, secondly, to provide a forum to explore relevant models and modelling approaches. The workshop was also able to play a role in examining the agroforestry systems encountered in temperate and Mediterranean areas, including both traditional and more innovative agroforestry practices. The main aspects discussed were: ecological interactions amongst components, environmental impact, economics and policy modelling.
Cultural Forests Of The Amazon
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Author : William Balée
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2013-08-20
Cultural Forests Of The Amazon written by William Balée and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-20 with Education categories.
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée’s research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon, he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. Balée demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future for environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. Balée describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people.
The Scramble For The Amazon And The Lost Paradise Of Euclides Da Cunha
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Author : Susanna B. Hecht
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-05-09
The Scramble For The Amazon And The Lost Paradise Of Euclides Da Cunha written by Susanna B. Hecht and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with History categories.
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never completed it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.