Human Impacts on Amazonia

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The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development

By: Darrell Posey (Editor), Michael Balick (Editor)

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Hardcover | 11 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Featuring contributions by environmental scientists, botanists, anthropologists, and others, this volume explores historic and contemporary visions of Amazonia and the effects of human development in the region. The collection reveals the long history of cultural and biological destruction in the Amazonian ecosystem, particularly by outsiders.

Standing in stark contrast to the environmental exploitation practiced by these interests, native Amazonians have successfully utilized and conserved the land around them, from the pre-Columbian era to the present. The unmistakable imprint of these indigenous inhabitants is reflected in the forests, savannas, hills, and streams of the Amazon Basin, which for them serve as homes, gardens, and hunting reserves, as well as spiritual and sacred spaces. Therefore collaboration with native Amazonians is critical to avoiding further ruin of this unique part of the world's biological and cultural heritage.

"Human Impacts on Amazonia" is a fascinating and important book for anyone concerned with the history, development, conservation, and protection of the Amazon Valley.

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"Of great value to anyone interested in policies influencing the future of the Amazon basin." -- Southeastern Naturalist "An outstanding collection on the cultural and political ecology of native Amazonians and other traditional inhabitants of the region." -- Thomas Ludewigs, Environmental Conservation

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Thoughts on the future of Amazonia : the region, residents, researchers, and realities	p. 1
Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians	p. 5
Constructing tropical nature	p. 17
Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia	p. 33
Fire in Roraima, 1998 - politics and human impact : what role for indigenous people in Brazilian Amazonia?	p. 51
The Cerrado of Brazilian Amazonia : a much-endangered vegetation	p. 85
A review of Amazonian wetlands and rivers : valuable environments under threat	p. 98
Fragility and resilience of Amazonian soils : models from indigenous management	p. 122
Is successful development of Brazilian Amazonia possible without knowledge of the soil and soil response to development?	p. 146
Fragile soils and deforestation impacts : the rationale for environmental services of standing forest as a development paradigm in Amazonia	p. 158
Concurrent activities and invisible technologies : an example of timber management in Amazonia	p. 172
Institutional and economic issues in the promotion of commercial forest management in Amerindian societies	p. 181
Collect or cultivate - a conundrum : comparative population ecology of Ipecac (Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Anderson), a neotropical understory herb	p. 193
Extractivism, domestication, and privatization of a native plant resource : the case of Jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus stapf ex Holmes) in Maranhao, Brazil	p. 210
Peasant riverine economies and their impact in the lower Amazon	p. 222
Conservation, economics, traditional knowledge, and the Yanomami : implications and benefits for whom?	p. 238
The commodification of the Indian	p. 248
Euphemism in the forest : ahistoricism and the valorization of indigenous knowledge	p. 273
What's the difference between a peace corps worker and an anthropologist? : a millennium rethink of anthropological fieldwork	p. 286
Traditional resource use and ethnoeconomics : sustainable characteristics of the Amerindian lifestyles	p. 307
Enhancing social capital : productive conservation and traditional knowledge in the Brazilian rain forest	p. 328
Findings and recommendations	p. 345
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Human Impacts on Amazonia

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