[PDF] Government And The Economy On The Amazon Frontier eBook

Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821333532

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World Bank Environment Paper No. 11.Addresses issues of local governance in frontier economies in relation to environmental and political sustainability. Covers problems of mining, farming, and disincentives.

Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821333532

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World Bank Environment Paper No. 11.Addresses issues of local governance in frontier economies in relation to environmental and political sustainability. Covers problems of mining, farming, and disincentives.

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1498594727

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Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers. This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that question the methods of development and the range of socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces, placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive—at times violent—clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and multiple programs of modernization and national integration. Scholars of Latin American studies, international development, environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030385248

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This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.

Author : Lee J. Alston
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472024280

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The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use examines the institutional development involved in the process of land use and ownership in the Amazon and shows how this phenomenon affects the behavior of the economic actors. It explores the way in which the absence of well-defined property rights in the Amazon has led to both economic and social problems, including lost investment opportunities, high costs in protecting claims, and violence. The relationship between land reform and violence is given special attention. The book offers an important application of the New Institutional Economics by examining a rare instance where institutional change can be empirically observed. This allows the authors to study property rights as they emerge and evolve and to analyze the effects of Amazon development on the economy. In doing so they illustrate well the point that often the evolution of economic institutions will not lead to efficient outcomes. This book will be important not only to economists but also to Latin Americanists, political scientists, anthropologists, and scholars in disciplines concerned with the environment. Lee Alston is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gary Libecap is Professor of Economics and Law, University of Arizona, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bernardo Mueller is Assistant Professor, Universidade de Brasilia.

Author : Fernando Santos Granero
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A path-breaking study combining perspectives from economic history, social anthropology, and political science to demonstrate that Amazonian frontier economies are not doomed to a self-reproducing condition of lawlessness, marginality, and underdevelopment.

Author : Sue Branford
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN :

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Traces the violent arrival of capitalism in the Amazon region. After describing the original Indian population, the rise and fall of the rubber boom, and the slow influx of peasant families, explains how the military government encouraged powerful economic groups to move in and set up huge cattle ranches; describes the violent clashes between the companies and the peasant farmers, the suffering of the Indians, and the mounting ecological damage; reports extensively on two serious conflicts.

Author : Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0292789556

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Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. The Colonization of the Amazon, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest. Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.