
The Colonization of the Amazon
Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida(Author)
University of Texas Press
Published on 1. September 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
389 pages
978-0-292-75598-7 (ISBN)
Description
Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. The Colonization of the Amazon, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest.
Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.
Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-292-75598-7 (9780292755987)
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The late Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida was a research economist at the Economics Ministry of Brazil's Applied Economic Research Institute and a professor on the faculty of economics and business administration at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Content
Acknowledgments
Part 1: The Dimensions of the Frontier
1. The Decade of Colonization
2. Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier
3. Occupation and Availability of Land in the Amazon
4. Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils
5. The Closing Frontier
Part 2: The Frontier and the State
6. The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier
7. Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon
8. Directed Settlement
9. Complementing Institutions
10. The Cost of Directed Colonization
Part 3: The Frontier and the Market
11. The Expansion of the Market
12. The Economic Dynamic of Colonization
13. The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus
14. Colonists' Market Response
15. Frontier Merchants
Part 4: The Colonists
16. The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization
17. Costs and Benefits
18. Market Segmentation
19. Agricultural Strategies
20. Differentiation on the Frontier
21. Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon
22. Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate
23. Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon Frontier
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Part 1: The Dimensions of the Frontier
1. The Decade of Colonization
2. Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier
3. Occupation and Availability of Land in the Amazon
4. Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils
5. The Closing Frontier
Part 2: The Frontier and the State
6. The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier
7. Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon
8. Directed Settlement
9. Complementing Institutions
10. The Cost of Directed Colonization
Part 3: The Frontier and the Market
11. The Expansion of the Market
12. The Economic Dynamic of Colonization
13. The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus
14. Colonists' Market Response
15. Frontier Merchants
Part 4: The Colonists
16. The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization
17. Costs and Benefits
18. Market Segmentation
19. Agricultural Strategies
20. Differentiation on the Frontier
21. Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon
22. Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate
23. Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon Frontier
Glossary
Bibliography
Index