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Predatory Economies
A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of modernity under the socialist “Bolivarian” regime and its immense oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction, persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and even sanctuary. Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that while predation is what we think it is—invading ...
The Economics of Climate Change
Independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.
Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility
Being socially responsible on the part of corporate entities is now no longer an option, it is part of their normal business obligations to all their stakeholders regardless of whether these are primary or secondary stakeholders. Modern societies around the world now expect corporate entities of all shapes and forms to be socially responsible in whatever they do; the “Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility” is a first attempt at bringing together in one book experts' accounts of how corporate entities in twenty independent nations around the world are dealing with the issue of CSR. The world today faces diverse social problems. These become apparent as one moves from one country to the next, interestingly, society now expects corporations to help in finding solutions to these problems. The problem of global warming affects us all; modern corporations can no longer continue to assume that the problem will go away, if nothing is done by them. We can all make a little difference by our actions.
Native Christians
Native Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected to exercise within the context of a new societal model, the Protestants have centered their work on promoting a deep internal change, or 'conversion', based on the recognition of God's existence. Various ethnologists and scholars of indigeno...
From Inside Brazil
Brazil faces important issues as to whether and how socio-economic and political reforms will be pursued with urgency and staying power. This book presents a strong agenda and action plan to achieve for Brazil both economic growth and improved welfare for its citizens.
The Brazilian Amazonia in Change II
In the Brazilian planning region “Amazônia Legal”, deforestation of rain forests for the extraction of mineral resources, cattle breeding, soybean farming, transport infrastructure and hydropower plants was carried out without regard for the indigenous people and regional socio-ecological vulnerability. The implementation of damaging mega-programmes caused disastrous environmental problems. Large-scale destruction of biodiversity, rising temperatures and instability of precipitation not only pose a threat to the region, but also have global impacts on climate change. Over the last two decades, parts of Amazônia Legal have evolved from a CO2 sink to a source of CO2 emissions.
Amazônia
O Brasil possui em seu território a maior floresta tropical do planeta. Com características de elevada importância estratégica para o país, a Amazônia tem sido vítima de um acelerado processo de desmatamento predatório. No momento sombrio que o Brasil vive, para encontrar novos caminhos, será necessário lembrar o que passou e elaborar a experiência à luz da sabedoria das ciências e das consciências que se cruzam e se atravessam no terreno do fazer humano. É o que faz João Paulo Capobianco em sua obra "Amazônia, uma década de esperança". Com um texto simples, direto e consistentemente informativo, a obra incorpora as análises conduzidas na preparação da tese de doutorado de Capobianco. Não há "informações de bastidores" nem inconfidências, mas provas documentais, depoimentos e fatos públicos sobejamente registrados que embasam suas conclusões. O autor organiza as informações de modo que possa esclarecer dúvidas e desfazer dubiedades. A obra ainda contém prefácio com um ar de "testemunho" da ex-ministra do Meio Ambiente, Marina Silva.
Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon
A situação socioambiental da Amazônia brasileira na virada do milênio. Resultado do esforço coletivo de cientistas, técnicos de órgãos públicos e de organizações não governamentais e lideranças do movimento social, esta obra traz 27 artigos de 47 autores, mais de uma centena de mapas temáticos, extensos bancos de dados e fotos de cinco renomados fotógrafos.
