Sustainability
Sustainability

Author: Marcílio de Freitas and Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas

Publisher: America Star Books

Published: 2013-12-20

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1633828972

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The reinvention and the emergency of the capitalism with new worldwide contours, having ecology as the paradigm of modernity, have introduced a set of new problems. The integration of the world economy with environmental questions, the control on the ecological future of the planet, the reinventions of new ethical utopias for the humanity, the universality of the participative democracy, and the construction of the new natural and social contracts on a worldwide scale, are questions that pressure the current systems of thoughts. The fast social depreciation and ecological destruction, putting the future existence of the humanity at risk, constitute a contradiction of the processes of globalization. Mankind has been confronted with this new historical perspective: to construct and incorporate socio-economical enterprises to the notion of sustainable development. This book has the pretension to introduce new elements in this dialogue, reaffirming the importance of the Amazonia in this worldwide political enterprise.

Pastures for the Tropical Lowlands
Pastures for the Tropical Lowlands

Author: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

Publisher: CIAT

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9789589183458

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Introduction; Tropical pastures target environments; Regional germplasm evaluation: A portfolio of germplasm options for the major ecosystems of tropical amarica; Methodological challenges in pasture research; Germplasme case study: Brachiaria species; Germplasm case study: Arachis pintoi; Integrating the native savanna resource with improved pastures; Experiences at the interface of research and development with tropical pastures; The role of pastures in production systems; Soil-plant factors and prodesses affscting productivity in ley farming; tropical pastures program: bibliobraphy of publictions, 1985-1991; Acronyms; abbreviations.

Amazonia
Amazonia

Author: James M. Cooper

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781845195007

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A title that sets out how the Amazon Basin's indigenous self-determination meets corporate profiteering, where the future of natural resource stewardship is hotly debated, where subsistence living, extreme poverty, and the vagaries of the international commodities markets are revealed.

Neo-extractivism in Latin America
Neo-extractivism in Latin America

Author: Maristella Svampa

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1108707122

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This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.

Development Or Destruction
Development Or Destruction

Author: Theodore E. Downing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0429714033

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This book is the outcome of a workshop on the conversion of tropical forest to pasture in Latin America convened in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1988. It examines the dynamics underlying this complex and destructive process and enlisted multiple perspectives in order to identify alternatives.