The last forest : the Amazon in the age of globalization

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Label

The last forest : the Amazon in the age of globalization

Title remainder

the Amazon in the age of globalization

Statement of responsibility

Mark London and Brian Kelly

Creator

• London, Mark, 1952-

Contributor

• Kelly, Brian, 1954-

Subject

• Amazon River Region
• Amazonastiefland
• Bosques -- Administración -- Valle del Río Amazonas
• Bosques húmedos -- Valle del Río Amazonas -- Administración
• Ecología de selva lluviosa -- Valle del Río Amazonas
• Forest management
• Forest management -- Amazon River Region
• Forstwirtschaft
• Forêts -- Gestion -- Amazonie
• Globalisierung
• Nachhaltigkeit
• Amazon River Region
• Rain forest ecology -- Amazon River Region
• Rain forests -- Amazon River Region -- Management
• Rain forests -- Management
• Regenwald
• Regnskogar -- Brasilien | Amazonas
• Umweltschutz
• nature conservation
• tropical rain forests
• Écologie des forêts pluviales -- Amazonie
• Rain forest ecology

Language

eng

Summary

"With a landmass larger than the continental U.S. west of the Mississippi and the richest diversity of plant and animal species on earth, the Amazon has always struck its explorers and would-be exploiters as infinite and largely impenetrable. For decades, anthropologists assumed that permanent human habitation was impossible - but they were wrong. Recently, proof of centuries-old Amazonian civilizations has been unearthed, shifting perceptions of the inhospitability of the rain forest - and providing a precedent for human occupation. Today, as developers and environmentalists clash over the region's future, the seemingly endless forest is fast disappearing in fires, rampant mineral extraction, rogue logging operations, and encroaching urban sprawl." "Through a series of human encounters - interviews with government ministers and environmental crusaders, millionaire ranchers and disenfranchised slum dwellers - Mark London and Brian Kelly, longtime explorers and chroniclers of the Amazon basin, trace the region's transformation. Logging thousands of miles, London and Kelly take readers from the mushrooming shopping malls of Manaus to the pristine rain forest that still seems beyond the reach of civilization, from the ghostly ruins of abandoned factories and failed plantations to the thriving agribusinesses that one day may feed the entire world and change this landscape forever. Again and again, they collide with the same fundamental question: Is it too late to strike a balance in the Amazon between economic sustenance for the twenty-one million Brazilians who live there and protection for the world's last great forest?"--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

333.750981/1

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

SD418.3.A53

LC item number

L66 2007

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

SD418.3.A53

NAL item number

L66 2007

Nature of contents

bibliography