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With broadax and firebrand the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest

Warren Dean 1932-1993

Localização: ESALQ - Biblioteca Central (333.75137 D282w 95684 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

Título:
With broadax and firebrand the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Autor: Warren Dean 1932-1993
Assuntos: Deforestation -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History; Rain forests -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Brazil -- Atlantic Coast -- History; FLORESTAS PLUVIAIS -- BRASIL; DESMATAMENTO -- MATA ATLÂNTICA; Forests Exploitation History; Brazil
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-440) and index.
Descrição: 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.
Editor: Berkeley University of California Press
Data de criação/publicação: 1997, c1995
Formato: xx, 482 p. maps ; 23 cm..
Idioma: Inglês

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