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Rainforest Corridors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Rainforest Corridors

Genesis of the Transamazon schme. The ecological setting. Agro-ecossystem productivity. Settlement and disease. Potential public health problems. Public health services and alternative medicine. The Transamazon and regional development.

Developing the Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Developing the Amazon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The amazon basin: problems and potential of a vast rain forest. Tropical rain forest ecosystems. Aboriginal use of amazonian resources. The impact of colonialism and an extractive economy. Migration to the amazon. Types of settlements and types of migrants. The use of forest resources in the transamazon. Agriculture in the transamazon. Social and intitutional life. Health, diet, and disease. Levels of analysis in Amazonian research.

Ethnographies of Conservation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Ethnographies of Conservation

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.

Roster of Amazon Researchers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Roster of Amazon Researchers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey

In The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced employment-based social security. This book is one of the results of Yörük’s European Research Council-funded project, which compares the political dynamics in several emerging markets in order to develop a new political theory of welfare in the global south. As such, this book is an ambitious analytical and empirical contribution to understanding the causes of a sweeping shift in the nature of state welfare provision in Turkey during the recent decades—part of a global tren...

Regional Development in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Regional Development in Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Caribbean Transnationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Caribbean Transnationalism

Exploring the old and new forms of transnationalism stemming from the Caribbean, Caribbean Transnationalism challenges present concepts about diaspora, brings into perspective new forms of transnationalism, and offers new perspectives on social cohesion in plural societies. The novelty of this collection of essays by experts from a wide range of disciplines consists not only of the theoretical clarity it offers with regard to issues related to diaspora, transnationalism, and social cohesion, but also of the ample attention given to the intra-regional transnational communities and the discussion of ethnification for social cohesion. Caribbean Transnationalism calls into question traditional views held in the expanding fields of migration, transnationalism, and social cohesion, making this an important book for scholars and students interested in the study of the social sciences and Caribbean studies.

From Community to Consumption
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

From Community to Consumption

Contains papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008. This book provides an international view of the advanced production in rural sociology.

The Economics of Involuntary Resettlement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Economics of Involuntary Resettlement

Content Description #Includes bibliographical references.

World Bank Approaches to the Environment in Brazil: The POLONORESTE [i.e. POLONOROESTE] Program
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

World Bank Approaches to the Environment in Brazil: The POLONORESTE [i.e. POLONOROESTE] Program

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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