Human Impacts on Amazonia: The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development

Published by Columbia University Press 2006

Human Impacts on Amazonia

The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development

Edited by: Darrell Posey and Michael Balick

In the series Biology and Resource Management Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/pose10588

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About this book

From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental scientists, botanists, and anthropologists, this volume explores the various effects of human development on Amazonia. The contributors argue that by protecting and drawing on local knowledge and values, further environmental ruin can be avoided.

Author / Editor information

Darrell Addison Posey (1947-2001) was director of the Traditional Resource Rights Programme, Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, and of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies. He is the author of several books, including Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics: A Darrell Posey Reader.Michael J. Balick is vice president for research and training and director and philecology curator at the Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (with Paul Alan Cox); Useful Palms of the World (with Hans T. Beck); Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize (with Rosita Arvigo); and The Subsidy from Nature: Palm Forests, Peasantry, and Development on an Amazon Frontier (with Anthony B. Anderson and Peter H. May).

Reviews

Thomas Ludewigs:
An outstanding collection on the cultural and political ecology of native Amazonians and other traditional inhabitants of the region.

Of great value to anyone interested in policies influencing the future of the Amazon basin.

A very intelligent presentation... Highly Recommended.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Darrell Addison Posey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Coeditor’s Note Michael J. Balick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Thoughts on the Future of Amazonia The Region, Residents, Researchers, and Realities Michael J. Balick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Romance and Reality The First European Vision of Brazilian Indians John Hemming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2. Constructing Tropical Nature Nancy Leys Stepan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Demand for Two Classes of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge in Modern Amazonia Charles R. Clement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Fire in Roraima, 1998—Politics and Human Impact What Role for Indigenous People in Brazilian Amazonia? Elizabeth Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
5. The Cerrado of Brazilian Amazonia A Much-Endangered Vegetation James A. Ratter, J. Felipe Ribeiro and Samuel Bridgewater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. A Review of Amazonian Wetlands and Rivers Valuable Environments Under Threat Christopher Barrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7. Fragility and Resilience of Amazonian Soils Models from Indigenous Management Peter A. Furley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
8 Is Successful Development of Brazilian Amazonia Possible Without Knowledge of the Soil and Soil Response to Development? Stephen Nortcliff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
9. Fragile Soils and Deforestation Impacts The Rationale for Environmental Services of Standing Forest as a Development Paradigm in Amazonia Philip M. Fearnside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
10. Concurrent Activities and Invisible Technologies An Example of Timber Management in Amazonia Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
11. Institutional and Economic Issues in the Promotion of Commercial Forest Management in Amerindian Societies Michael Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
12. Collect or Cultivate—A Conundrum Comparative Population Ecology of Ipecac ( Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson), a Neotropical Understory Herb Jan Salick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
13. Extractivism, Domestication, and Privatization of a Native Plant Resource The Case of Jaborandi ( Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf ex Holmes) in Maranhão, Brazil Claudio Urbano B. Pinheiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
14. Peasant Riverine Economies and Their Impact in the Lower Amazon Mark Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
16. The Commodification of the Indian Alcida Rita Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
17. Euphemism in the Forest Ahistoricism and the Valorization of Indigenous Knowledge Stephen Nugent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
18. What’s the Difference Between a Peace Corps Worker and an Anthropologist? A Millennium Rethink of Anthropological Fieldwork Joanna Overing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
19. Traditional Resource Use and Ethnoeconomics Sustainable Characteristics of the Amerindian Lifestyles Clóvis Cavalcanti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
20. Enhancing Social Capital Productive Conservation and Traditional Knowledge in the Brazilian Rain Forest Anthony Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Appendix: Findings and Recommendations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Other: 16 illus.

eBook

Published: July 11, 2006
ISBN: 9780231517355