Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - List of Contributors - Introduction; D.Goodman & A.Hall - PART 1: CURRENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND FRONTIER INTEGRATION - Rondonia and the Fate of Small Producers; G.Martine - The Shanty Town, Final Stage of Rural Development? The Case of Acre; K.Bakx - Private and Public Colonisation Schemes in Amazonia; E.Moran - Future Hydroelectric Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Towards Comprehensive Population Resettlement; L.Mougeot - Development Planning and Mineral Mega-Projects: Some Global Considerations; F.Neto - Frontier Security and the New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project; J.Pacheco de Oliveira Filho - PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION, SOCIAL CONFLICT AND POPULAR RESISTANCE - Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon; P.Fearnside - The State and Land Conflicts in Amazonia, 1964-1988; A.Wagner Berno de Almeida - The Political Impasses of Rural Social Movements in Amazonia; J.de Souza Martins - Indigenous People in Brazilian Amazonia and the Expansion of the Economic Frontier; D.Treece - Small Farmer Protest in the Greater Carajas Programme; J.Hebette & J.A.Colares - PART 3: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - The Nature and Sustainability of Brazilian Amazon Soils; P.Furley - Environmentally Appropriate, Sustainable Small-Farm Strategies for Amazonia; C.Barrow - Economic Values and the Environment of Amazonia; D.Pearce & N.Myers - Glossary - Index
Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - List of Contributors - Introduction; D.Goodman & A.Hall - PART 1: CURRENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND FRONTIER INTEGRATION - Rondonia and the Fate of Small Producers; G.Martine - The Shanty Town, Final Stage of Rural Development? The Case of Acre; K.Bakx - Private and Public Colonisation Schemes in Amazonia; E.Moran - Future Hydroelectric Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Towards Comprehensive Population Resettlement; L.Mougeot - Development Planning and Mineral Mega-Projects: Some Global Considerations; F.Neto - Frontier Security and the New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project; J.Pacheco de Oliveira Filho - PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION, SOCIAL CONFLICT AND POPULAR RESISTANCE - Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon; P.Fearnside - The State and Land Conflicts in Amazonia, 1964-1988; A.Wagner Berno de Almeida - The Political Impasses of Rural Social Movements in Amazonia; J.de Souza Martins - Indigenous People in Brazilian Amazonia and the Expansion of the Economic Frontier; D.Treece - Small Farmer Protest in the Greater Carajas Programme; J.Hebette & J.A.Colares - PART 3: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - The Nature and Sustainability of Brazilian Amazon Soils; P.Furley - Environmentally Appropriate, Sustainable Small-Farm Strategies for Amazonia; C.Barrow - Economic Values and the Environment of Amazonia; D.Pearce & N.Myers - Glossary - Index
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