The Brazilian Amazon : Politics, Science and International Relations in the History of the Forest / / by Joana Bezerra

• Autore: Bezerra Joana
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.98107
• Soggetto topico: Forestry management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Forestry Management; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword 1; The Amazon, a Most Enticing Subject; Foreword 2; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Photographs; Abbreviations; Abstract; 1 Introduction; Introduction; References; 2 Terra Preta de Índio and Amazonian History; Introduction; Terra Preta do Índio; History of the Terra Preta Research; Perceptions of Amazonians Soils; From 1980 Onwards; The Past, the Present and Terra Preta; Agriculture and Soil; Amazonia as a Pristine Forest; Amazonian Legacies and Their Importance; Where to from Now; References; 3 The Amazon and Brazilian Development Policies; Introduction ; Humans, Nature and the AmazonDifferent Perspectives Towards the Amazon; The Amazon and Brazil; Governance; The Amazon Before the Military Coup; The Military Regime; The 1960s; The 1970s; The 1980s; The Return to Democracy; Decentralisation; The 1990s; International Interests; Unresolved Issues; Land Reform; Property Rights; Terra Preta de Índio; The Amazon and Government Policy---What Lies Ahead?; References; 4 The Amazon and the International Political Arena; Introduction; The International Environment Agenda and Brazil; From the Colonial Period Until 1912 ; From 1912 Until the Military Coup of 1964The 1960s; The 1970s; The 1980s; The 1990s; The 2000s; Environmental Governance; Globalisation; Governance; Climate Regime; What About Terra Preta de Índio?; References; 5 The Sustainability Paradigm and the Future of the Amazon; Introduction; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development and Terra Preta de Índio; Climate Change and the Amazon Rainforest; Ecosystem Services and REDD; Unresolved Issues; What to Expect; References; 6 Terra Preta de Índio and the Future of the Amazon; Introduction; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The aim of this book is to analyse the current development scenario in the Amazon, using Terra Preta de Índio as a case study. To do so it is necessary to go back in time, both in the national and international sphere, through the second half of the last century to analyse its trajectory. It will be equally important analyse the current issues regarding the Amazon – sustainable development and climate change – and how they still reproduce some of the problems that marked the history of the forest, such as the absence of Amazonian dark earths as a relevant theme to the Amazon. In a world in which the environment gains each time more space in the national and international political agenda, the Amazon stands out. Known around the world for its richness, the South-American forest is the target of different visions, often contradictory ones, and it plays with everyone’s imagination. This is where the terra preta de índio – Amazonian Dark Earths - are found, a fertile soil horizon with high concentrations of carbon with anthropic origins, which has generated great interest from the scientific community. Studies on these soils and their so singular characteristics have triggered crucial discussions on the past, present and the future of the entire Amazon region. Despite its singular characteristics, the importance of Amazonian Dark Earths – and a history of a more productive and populated Amazon – was hidden since its discovery around 1880 until 1980, when it is possible to identify the beginning of an increase in the number of research on these soil horizons. These hundred years between the first records and the beginning of the increase in the interest around these soils witnessed structural changes both in the national arena, with the military dictatorship and a change in the place of the Amazon within internal affairs, and in the international arena with changes that reshaped the role of the environment in the political and scientific agendas and the role of Brazil in the global context.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Brazilian Amazon
• ISBN: 3-319-23030-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910298260603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Forests, . 0785-8388 ; ; 21