With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, Warren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1995.
Edición:1st pbk. print.
Colección:History e-book project.
Temas:
Deforestation > Brazil > Atlantic Coast > History.
Rain forests > Brazil > Atlantic Coast > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Brazil > Atlantic Coast > History.
Déboisement > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Brésil) > Histoire.
Forêts pluviales > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Brésil) > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Brésil) > Histoire.
Environnement > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Brésil) > Histoire.
Déboisement > Brésil > Atlantique, Côte de l' > Histoire.
Forêts pluviales > Brésil > Atlantique, Côte de l' > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Brésil > Atlantique, Côte de l' > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Deforestation.
Ecology.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Rain forests.
Forestry.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Atlantic Coast (Brazil) > Environmental conditions > History.
Atlantique, Côte de l' (Brésil) > Conditions environnementales > Histoire.
Brazil > Atlantic Coast.
Forests > Exploitation > History
Brazil
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The forest evolves
  • Humans invade: the first wave
  • Humans invade: the second wave
  • Estrangement: depopulation and the regrown forest
  • Gold and diamonds, ants and cattle
  • Science discovers the forest
  • The forest under Brazilian rule
  • Coffee dispossesses the forest
  • Instruments of devastation
  • Speculation and conservation
  • Industrial nomadism, predatory industrialism
  • The development imperative
  • Unsustainable developments
  • Getting it off the paper
  • The value of bare ground.

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