Research Catalog

Title

Land, people, and planning in contemporary Amazonia / editor, Françoise Barbira-Scazzocchio.

Publication

[Cambridge, Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University, 1980.

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Additional Authors

• Barbira Freedman, Françoise.
• Conference on the Development of Amazonia in Seven Countries (1979 : University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies)

Description

xvi, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional publication / Centre of Latin American Studies ; no. 3

Uniform Title

Occasional publication (University of Cambridge. Centre of Latin American Studies) ; no. 3.

Subject

• Amazon River Region > Economic conditions > Congresses
• Amazon River Region > Economic policy > Congresses
• Amazon River Region
• Amazon River Watershed > Economic conditions
• Amazonie > Conditions économiques > Congrès
• Amazonie > Congrès
• Amazonie > Économie politique > Congrès
• Economic development
• Economic history
• Economic policy
• Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Economic conditions > Congresses
• Indians of South America > Economic conditions
• Indians, South American
• Land use
• Land use > Amazon River Region > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Proceedings of the Conference on the Development of Amazonia in Seven Countries, Cambridge, 23-26 September 1979"--Cover.
• Errata slip laid in.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.

Contents

State and entrepreneurs in the development of Brazilian Amazonia / Hervé Théry -- Recent colonization experiences in Brazil : expectations versus reality / George Martine -- Fighting for the land : Indians and posseiros in legal Amazonia / José de Souza Martins -- Colonization policy and peasant economy in the Amazon basin / Frans J. Schuurman -- Land use allocation and the Transamazon Highway colonists of Brazil and its relation to human carrying capacity / Philip M. Fearnside -- Recent frontier expansion in Brazil : the case of Rondônia / Charles C. Mueller -- Public and private agricultural policies in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) / Hélène Rivière d'Arc -- Marginalized colonists to the north of Santa Cruz : avenues of escape from the Barbecho crisis / Simon Maxwell -- The colonization of humid tropical areas in Ecuador / Ray Bromley -- Internal colonization in a colonized country : the case of the Peruvian Amazon / Alberto Chirif -- The transformation of Guiviare in Columbia [sic] : immigrating p

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^^^87672189^

OCLC

7548705

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