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Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Dilemma of Amazonian Development edited by Emilio F. Moran

This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmental and social impact assessment in a variety of Amazonian settings to derive realistic evaluations of the dangers and potential of current development approaches. In the final section of the book, they focus on those methodologies that promise to provide future researchers with improved tools for the management of the Amazon region's human and natural resources.

A central theme of the book is the need for the government planners and local populations making these necessarily complex decisions to consider the realities of the local environment, existing environmental management practices, and the culture and demographic structure of the region, as well as how these factors are affected by external social, economic, and political factors.

Dr. Moran is associate professor in the School for Public and Environmental Affairs and in the Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, and chairman of the Department of Anthropology. Among his many publications are Agricultural Development Along the Transamazon Highway (1976) and Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology (Westview, 1982). Between 1973 and 1976 he held two Fulbright-Hays fellowships, a Social Science Research Council Fellowship, and two National Institute of Mental Health fellowships for research in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Dilemma of Amazonian Development

edited by Emilio F. Moran

AO POVO DA AMAZNIA
AL PUEBLO DE LA AMAZONA

First published 1983 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2019 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Dilemma of Amazonian development.
(Westview special studies on Latin America and the Caribbean)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Man--Influence on nature--Brazil--Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. ManInfluence on nature--Amazon Valley--Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Environmental policy--Brazil--Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Environmental policyAmazon Valley--Addresses, essays, lectures. 5. Brazil--Economic conditionsAddresses, essays, lectures. 6. Amazon Valley--Economic conditionsAddresses, essays, lectures. 7. Agriculture--Brazil--Addresses, essays, lectures. 8. Agriculture--Amazon Valley--Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Moran, Emilio F. II. Series.
GF532.B7D54 1983 333.75'09811 82-23693

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29129-7 (hbk)

Contents

, Emilio F. Moran

, William T. Vickers

, Allyn MacLean Stearman

, Darrel Miller

, J. J. Nicholaides III, P. A. Sanchez, D. E. Bandy, J. H. Villachica, A. J. Coutu, and C. S. Valverde

, Susanna Hecht

, Michael Goulding

, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Eneas Salati

, Darrell A. Posey

, Charles H. Wood

, Philip M. Fearnside

, Emilio F. Moran

, Dennis J. Mahar

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

1. FIGURES
2. TABLES

The rapid pace of deforestation in the Amazon Basin has attracted popular and scientific attention. This interest is not unwarranted: The Amazon Basin is the largest remaining tract of tropical moist forest and generally believed to be the most complex biome in the biosphere. Rapid extinction of floral and faunal species, disruption of the hydrologic cycle, soil compaction, unimpressive agricultural yields, and violence between native and colonist populations are but a few of the host of urgent problems in need of policy-relevant recommendations. This volume brings together a number of researchers whose findings bear upon the current processes of social and ecological change in the basin.

Unlike other recent collections of Amazonian research, this one is not the result of a conference. Rather, the editor invited the authors to address problems that have emerged in their areas of expertise during the process of Amazonian development. Agronomists, anthropologists, ecologists, economists, geographers, and sociologists have contributed to this effort. Each author shows considerable knowledge of the interactions between environmental, institutional, cultural, and technical aspects of development, rather than being limited to any single factor.

Given the rapid pace at which current research efforts are taking place, I felt that it would be useful to have a volume that dealt with the policy dilemmas of development. The authors of these papers are guided by an awareness of the immediacy of the problems faced by people in Amazonia and of the need, when addressing policy issues, to keep a solid base in empirical findings. Too much development planning and implementation has been undertaken in the absence of even elementary data. It is my hope that this volume will be one step toward correcting these past deficiencies.

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