Frontier Making in the Amazon
Economic, Political and Socioecological Conversion
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Beschreibung
This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc).
It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines.
This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc).
It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines.
This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
Offers a new conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding frontier-making in today’s world, based on extensive and ongoing empirical research Focuses on one of the most controversial and difficult processes of regional development and socio-environmental change in the Amazon region Addresses the encroachment and consolidation of the agribusiness sector in the Amazon region, a topic of growing international interest
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Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Themen in »Frontier Making in the Amazon«
Development Studies Agricultural frontier in the Amazon Frontier-Making and Land-Grabbing Regional Development of the Amazon region Agribusiness in the Amazon Regional infrasctucture in the Amazon Environmental Conflicts Land use in the Amazon Agrarian Conflicts Political Geography Rural Sociology Environmental Geography latin american politics