Human impacts on Amazonia the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development /
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| Series: | Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.