With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest / Warren Dean.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, �1995.Edition: 1st pbk. printDescription: 1 online resource (xx, 482 pages) : mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780520919082
- 0520919084
- 0585130485
- 9780585130484
- 9780520208865
- 0520208862
- Deforestation -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History
- Rain forests -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History
- Atlantic Coast (Brazil) -- Environmental conditions -- History
- D�eboisement -- Atlantique, C�ote de l' (Br�esil) -- Histoire
- For�ets pluviales -- Atlantique, C�ote de l' (Br�esil) -- Histoire
- Homme -- Influence sur la nature -- Atlantique, C�ote de l' (Br�esil) -- Histoire
- Environnement -- Atlantique, C�ote de l' (Br�esil) -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
- Deforestation
- Ecology
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Rain forests
- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast
- Forestry
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Forests Exploitation History
- Brazil
- 304.2/8/098109152 20
- SD418.3.B6 D43 1995
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-440) and index.
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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