The Future of Amazonia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • David Goodman, Anthony Hall

      Pages 1-20

3. Current Development Strategies and Frontier Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Rondônia and the Fate of Small Producers

      • George Martine

      Pages 23-48

   3. The Shanty Town, Final Stage of Rural Development? The Case of Acre

      • Keith Bakx

      Pages 49-69

   4. Private and Public Colonisation Schemes in Amazonia

      • Emilio F. Moran

      Pages 70-89

   5. Future Hydroelectric Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Towards Comprehensive Population Resettlement

      • Luc J. A. Mougeot

      Pages 90-129

   6. Development Planning and Mineral Mega-projects: Some Global Considerations

      • Fred T. Neto

      Pages 130-154

   7. Frontier Security and The New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project

      • João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho

      Pages 155-176

4. Environmental Destruction, Social Conflict and Popular Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon

      • Philip M. Fearnside

      Pages 179-225

   3. The State and Land Conflicts in Amazonia, 1964–88

      • Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida

      Pages 226-244

   4. The Political Impasses of Rural Social Movements in Amazonia

      • José de Souza Martins

      Pages 245-263

   5. Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Amazonia and the Expansion of the Economic Frontier

      • David Treece

      Pages 264-287

   6. Small-farmer Protest in the Greater Carajás Programme

      • João Hébette, José Alberto Colares

      Pages 288-305

5. Towards Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. The Nature and Sustainability of Brazilian Amazon Soils

      • Peter A. Furley

      Pages 309-359

   3. Environmentally Appropriate, Sustainable Small-farm Strategies for Amazonia

      • Chris Barrow

      Pages 360-382

   4. Economic Values and the Environment of Amazonia

      • David Pearce, Norman Myers

      Pages 383-404

6. Back Matter

   Pages 405-419

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The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, hangs in the balance. Two decades of destructive development have provoked violent struggles for control over the region's resources, with disastrous social and environmental consequences. This multi-disciplinary collection reviews past experience but focusses on the latest phase of Amazonian settlement. Chapters by leading authorities examine such issues as colonisation in the most recent frontier areas, multinational mining projects, hydro-electric schemes, and the military occupation of Brazil's borders. After demonstrating how new government and business activities have exacerbated social tensions and ecological destruction, the volume considers alternative, more sustainable strategies.

• development
• research
• Rural Development
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• University College, London, UK

  David Goodman

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Anthony Hall

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