The Colonization of the Amazon / / Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Almeida, Anna Luiza Ozorio de,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Tables
• Maps
• Charts
• Graphs
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The Decade of Colonization
• Part 1: The Dimensions of the Frontier
• Introduction
• 2. Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier
• 3. Occupation and Availability of Land in the Amazon
• 4. Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils
• 5. The Closing Frontier
• Part 2: The Frontier and the State
• Introduction
• 6. The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier
• 7. Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon
• 8. Directed Settlement
• 9. Complementing Institutions
• 10. The Cost of Directed Colonization
• Part 3: The Frontier and the Market
• Introduction
• 11. The Expansion of the Market
• 12. The Economic Dynamic of Colonization
• 13. The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus
• 14. Colonists' Market Response
• 15. Frontier Merchants
• Part 4: The Colonists
• Introduction
• 16. The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization
• 17. Costs and Benefits
• 18. Market Segmentation
• 19. Agricultural Strategies
• 20. Differentiation on the Frontier
• 21. Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon
• 22. Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate
• 23. Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon Frontier
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index