Amazonia in the Anthropocene : : People, Soils, Plants, Forests / / Nicholas C. Kawa.
Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Amazonia in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 2 People
- Chapter 3 Soils
- Chapter 4 Plant
- Chapter 5 Forests
- Chapter 6 From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic?
- Appendix Useful Botanical Species Surveyed in Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
- Notes
- References
- Index