Amazon Besieged
By dams, soya, agribusiness and land-grabbing
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-909014-04-6 (ISBN)
Description
Amazon Besieged tells the story of two writers' long investigative trip along the basin in 2016 and 2017. As if travelling through history, the authors were able to trace the way an outside economic force arrives and dispossesses earlier inhabitants and recorded moving testimony of the pressure these people are experiencing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rugby
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909014-04-6 (9781909014046)
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Persons
Mauricio Torres has lived and worked in the Amazon for 15 years; he has a PhD in human geography and has been consulted as an expert by the Federal Public Ministry in over a dozen cases involving social and environmental issues in the Amazon.