Frontier Making in the Amazon : Economic, Political and Socioecological Conversion / / by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

• Autore: Ioris Antonio Augusto Rossotto
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 222 p. 33 illus., 29 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 338.9811
• Soggetto topico: Environmental geography; Human geography; Agriculture - Economic aspects; Economic geography; Cultural geography; Latin America—Politics and government; Environmental Geography; Human Geography; Agricultural Economics; Economic Geography; Cultural Geography; Latin American Politics
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Frontier thinking and the Amazon region -- Scarcities and abundances in place and time: A proposed conceptualisation of frontier making -- Placing the agricultural frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil -- Peasant farming in the Amazon frontiers -- Water and energy frontiers in the Amazon -- Production of poverty and the poverty of production in the Amazon -- Disrupting frontier development from within: The latent geographical agency of indigenous peoples -- Development and conservation frontiers in the Pantanal wetland -- Conclusion: Lessons learned to expand frontier theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here. .
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontier Making in the Amazon
• ISBN: 3-030-38524-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910373882203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series, . 2522-8420