Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s?through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century. Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520208865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95949752
Product Key Features
Author
Warren Dean
Publication Name
With Broadax and Firebrand: the Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Geology, Management
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
726g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Warren Dean
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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