1st Edition
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
By Barbara J. Cummings
Copyright 1990
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation.
In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the... Read more
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Amazonian Development: An Overview
Boom-Bust Cycles of Amazonia
Government Control and 'Mega-Projects'
2. Dams in the Rainforest: What Do We Know?
Definition of Tropical Rainforests
Tropical Soils and Dams
Forest Flooding and Water Cycles
Species Losses to Reservoirs
Dams and Disease Proliferation
Hydro-Development and Indigenous Peoples
3. The 2010 Plan
4. Balbina: A Case Study
History
Resistance
5. Altamira-Xingu: Birth of the Resistance
The Kararao Hydroelectric Project
Resistance
Environmentalists/Ecologists
Social Justice/Minority Political Parties
Native Peoples/Human Rights Activists
6. Under the Politics of Development
7. Prospects for the Future
Alternatives
Strengthening the Resistance
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Index
Biography
Authored by Cummings, Barbara J.
