Change in the Amazon Basin

Change in the Amazon Basin PDF Author: John Hemming
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719009686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
Conference report on development projects, environmental dangers, agricultural production and agroforestry by indigenous peoples and historical change in the Amazonia river basin, Brazil - considers the impact of development projects on the living conditions of Andean Indian tribes, negative effects of deforestation, hydrologycal aspects of rainforest in the central Amazon tropical zone, etc.; includes a historical survey of the rubber boom. Bibliography, diagrams, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.