The Brazilian Amazonia in Change II : Five Decades of Exploitation, Deforestation and Attempts at Sustainable Development

• Autore: Kohlhepp Gerd
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.7009811
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / General
• Soggetto non controllato: Amazonian Rainforests; Biodiversity; Deforestation; Economic Exploitation; Economic History; Economy; Environmental History; Environmental Policy; History; Nature; South American History
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword to Volume 2 -- I Amazônia Legal in the mid-1970s and 1980s -- 1. Alternative strategies to the colonisation policy of the Military Government -- 2. Polonoroeste: A new strategy of integrated rural development -- 3. Conflicts of interest at the Amazonian pioneer fronts in the 1980s -- 4. Mega-projects and their impact on the regional development in East Amazonia: The Grande Carajás programme (PGC) -- 5. The energy-related Plano 2010 and its possible impacts on Amazonia -- 6. The Significance of the New Constitution of 1988 for environmental policy in Amazonia -- II Promising environmental concepts for Amazonia under pressure by economic growth and agrobusiness strategies (1990s–2018) -- 1. Previous international initiatives for the protection of tropical rain forests -- 2. The International Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forests (PPG7: 1993–2009): An approach to sustainable regional development -- 3. Extensive infrastructure programmes as an extreme contrast to concurrent environmental policy measures -- 4. Private colonisation in Mato Grosso and expansion of agribusiness into the cerradão and tropical forest ecosystems -- 5. The new regional policy of the Plan of Sustainable Amazonia (PAS) -- 6. The hydroelectric power plant Belo Monte and its environmental and socio-ecological impacts -- 7. Population in Amazônia Legal 1970–2022 -- 8. Scientific research centres, research cooperation programmes and NGO activities in the Amazon region -- III Devastation and environmental degradation policies in Amazônia Legal during the Bolsonaro Government (2019–2022) -- 1. Chaotic activities of a decided enemy of sustainability in Amazonia -- 2. Destruction of tropical forest ecosystems due to logging and slash-and-burn activities -- 3. The ecological impacts of deforestation and problems of climate change -- 4. Threats to the Indigenous population and their habitats in Amazonia -- 5. Disagreements between donor countries and the Bolsonaro government regarding the Amazon Fund -- 6. The EU-Mercosur agreement failed under Bolsonaro’s presidency -- 7. The situation of Amazônia Legal during the Bolsonaro Government and possible future perspectives -- IV Epilogue -- 1. Hopes after the change of government in 2023: Lula da Silva as game changer? -- 2. Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- References
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Brazilian Amazonia in Change II
• ISBN: 9783839475355; 383947535X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910978258503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II