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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Schmink, Marianne
Wood, Charles

Hardcover

Series: Biology and Resource Management

Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231076606
ISBN13: 9780231076609
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jun 24 1992
Pages: 387
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power. The analysis of these contests illustrates how national and international factors often shaped events at the local level, thereby propelling the story of frontier expansion in different and unexpected directions.

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