Human impacts on Amazonia the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Posey, Darrell Addison, 1947-, Balick, Michael J., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
Series:Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
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245 0 0 |a Human impacts on Amazonia  |h [electronic resource] :  |b the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development /  |c edited by Darrell Addison Posey and Michael J. Balick. 
260 |a New York :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c c2006. 
300 |a xvi, 366 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
490 1 |a Biology and resource management series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Thoughts on the future of Amazonia : the region, residents, researchers, and realities / Michael J. Balick -- Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians / John Hemming -- Constructing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- Fire in Romania, 1998 - politics and human impact : what role for indigenous people in Brazilian Amazonia? / Elizabeth Allen -- The Cerrado of Brazilian Amazonia : a much-endangered vegetation / James A. Ratter, J. Felipe Ribeiro, and Samuel Bridgewater -- A review of Amazonian wetlands and rivers : valuable environments under threat / Christopher Barrow -- Fragility and resilience of Amazonian soils : models from indigenous management / Peter A. Furley -- Is successful development of Brazilian Amazonia possible without knowledge of the soil and soil response to development? / Stephen Nortcliff -- Fragile soils and deforestation impacts : the rationale for environmental services of standing forest as a development paradigm in Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Concurrent activities and invisible technologies : an example of timber management in Amazonia / Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-V�asquez -- Institutional and economic issues in the promotion of commercial forest management in Amerinidian societies / Michael Richards -- Collect or cultivate - a conundrum : comparative population ecology of ipecac (Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson), a neotropical understory herb / Jan Salick -- Extractivism, domestication, and privatization of a native plant resource : the case of jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf ex Holmes) in Maranh�ao, Brazil / Claudio Urbano B. Pinheiro -- Peasant riverine economies and their impact in the lower Amazon / Mark Harris -- Conservation, economics, traditional knowledge, and the Yanomami : implications and benefits for whom? / William Milliken -- The commodification of the Indian / Alcida Rita Ramos -- Euphemism in the forest : ahistoricism and the valorization of indigenous knowledge / Stephen Nugent -- What's the difference between a Peace Corps worker and an anthropologist? A millennium rethink of anthropological fieldwork / Joanna Overing -- Traditional resource use and ethnoeconomics : sustainable characteristics of the Amerindian lifestyles / Cl�ovis Cavalcanti -- Enhancing social captial : productive conservation and traditional knowledge in the Brazilian rain forest / Anthony Hall. 
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650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |x Ecology  |z Amazon River Region. 
650 0 |a Traditional ecological knowledge  |z Amazon River Region. 
650 0 |a Indians of South America  |x Ethnobotany  |z Amazon River Region. 
650 0 |a Nature  |x Effect of human beings on  |z Amazon River Region. 
650 0 |a Soil degradation  |z Amazon River Region. 
650 0 |a Environmental degradation  |z Amazon River Region. 
651 0 |a Amazon River Region  |x Environmental conditions. 
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