Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajas Programme - Brossura

Hall, Anthony L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719035503 ISBN 13: 9780719035500

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 1991

Riassunto

This study of the Grande Carajas programme, the largest project in the Amazon rainforest, is central to the debate on its future and fate. The social and environmental costs of the programme are examined here. The programme is the result of official policies which, over the past 20 years, have favoured large-scale mining, forestry and agribusiness at the expense of peasant farmers. They have seen their land steadily appropriated in a violent process of landgrabbing, leading to social polarization, growing poverty, landlessness, forced population displacement, invasions of Indian lands and environmental degradation. The author examines these frequently ignored side-effects and draws lessons for development throughout Amazonia and throughout the world's tropical rainforests. Planners, he argues, have to learn the lessons of existing policies if they are to devise constructive future initiatives.

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0719035503
• ISBN 13: 9780719035500
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304