Fate of the Forest Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition

Name: Fate of the Forest Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition
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ISBN: 9780226322728

ISBN-10: 0226322726

ISBN-13: 9780226322728

Edition: 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn

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The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of conquistadors, in centuries of slavery, in the schemes of Brazil's military dictators in the 1960s and 1970s, and in new globalized economies where Brazilian soy and beef now dominate, while the market in carbon credits raises the value of standing forest. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn show in…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.46" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Susanna B. Hecht is professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Topanga, CA.