[PDF] Amazon Journal eBook

Author : Roger Casement
Publisher : Anaconda Editions
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1901990001

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"This book, from the previously unpublished manuscript in the National Library of Ireland, is a valuable and deeply detailed edition of the diary kept by Casement during his journey into the South American rainforests. He had been sent by the British government to report on atrocities against tribal people while being forced to collect rubber in the Putumayo region in the north-west Amazon. Genocide among the Amazon Indians has continued, but external investigations of this kind have been rare. The way in which Roger Casement carried out his work is still relevant to all kinds of humanitarian and whistle-blowing activities. It is also a key text charting Casement's transition from observer to anti-imperial revolutionary and Irish independence leader, culminating in his execution by the British government in August 1916 after the Easter Rising."

Author : Geoffrey O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :

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The author set out to film a gold rush in a Brazilian rain forest, became involved with the Yanomami, and wrote "a compelling and compassionate look at a vanishing people, and a blistering account of the forces of destruction, both human and environmental, at work within the greatest forest on earth."--Jacket.

Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351717944

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In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.

Author : Ed Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000220508

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In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of ‘contested sustainability’ that highlights the need for sustainable energy transitions to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed ‘sustainable.’ Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a ‘green’ energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes studied as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, sustainable energy transitions, environmental justice, environmental governance, and development studies.

Author : Independently Published
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
Category :
ISBN :

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A blank Amazon journal notebook perfect for introducing to daily journaling ...

Author : Frederic Achard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000218651

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Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.

Author : Kai-Ingo Voigt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319388452

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Business model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers. This book presents 14 compelling case studies of business model pioneers and their companies, who have successfully introduced new business ideas to the market. The examples range from industries such as retail, media and entertainment to services and industrial projects. For each example, the book provides information on the market environment at the time of launch and illustrates the driving forces behind these business models. Moreover, current market developments are highlighted and linked to the evolution of the business models. Lastly, the authors present the profile of a typical business model pioneer.

Author : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 178694183X

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A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190949392

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Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.

Author : Blue bird
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category :
ISBN :

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Stay on task and organized with daily, weekly and monthly calendars Includes task, goal and review sections for extra productivity Features sturdy paper that can be written on with pencil, ink or permanent marker without bleeding Improves peace of mind and personal organization Features a black hard cover with an elastic band closure and ribbon bookmark