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Dordrecht Springer 2011 Paperback New. 137 p. Developments in Hydrobiology , 4. 106 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 137 p. 106 illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
ISBN10: 9048185203, ISBN13: 9789048185207, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondönia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest fron tier. In Brazil the name Rondönia evokes exaggerated images of lawlessness, land feuding, and indigent peasants in search of a homestead. Despite the problems and the perception, the region has pushed ahead, in the view of the govern ment, with large-scale deforestation and the establishment of cattle ranches and agricultural farms raising manioc, rice, bananas, and other cash crops. The mining industry has been launched with the exploitation oftin stone, and the recent gold rush has attracted thousands of miners that are sifting alluvial deposits along the rivers for the precious ore. In an energy-short world, the region boasts of its large hydroelectric potential waiting development in the rivers falling off the Brazilian Shield and draining into the Rio Madeira. Planners are optimistic that Rondönia's resources, once developed, will more than justify, at least in this corner of the rainforest frontier, the Economic Conquest ofthe Amazon. Sandwiched between the economic take-off and the dream, however, are the biological resources - the plants and animals - that must serve as sources of energy and food until human dominated ...
Dordrecht Springer 2011 Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Developments in Hydrobiology . XIII, 137 p. 106 illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
ISBN10: 9048185203, ISBN13: 9789048185207, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondönia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest fron tier. In Brazil the name Rondönia evokes exaggerated images of lawlessness, land feuding, and indigent peasants in search of a homestead. Despite the problems and the perception, the region has pushed ahead, in the view of the govern ment, with large-scale deforestation and the establishment of cattle ranches and agricultural farms raising manioc, rice, bananas, and other cash crops. The mining industry has been launched with the exploitation oftin stone, and the recent gold rush has attracted thousands of miners that are sifting alluvial deposits along the rivers for the precious ore. In an energy-short world, the region boasts of its large hydroelectric potential waiting development in the rivers falling off the Brazilian Shield and draining into the Rio Madeira. Planners are optimistic that Rondönia's resources, once developed, will more than justify, at least in this corner of the rainforest frontier, the Economic Conquest ofthe Amazon. Sandwiched between the economic take-off and the dream, however, are the biological resources - the plants and animals - that must serve as sources of energy and food until human dominated ...
Dordrecht Springer 2011 Paperback New. 137 p. Developments in Hydrobiology , 4. 106 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 137 p. 106 illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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ISBN10: 9048185203, ISBN13: 9789048185207, [publisher: Springer] Softcover Series: Developments in Hydrobiology. Num Pages: 137 pages, 106 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2011. 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1981. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
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