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With Broadax & Firebrand: Distruction of Brazilian Atlantic
Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowher...more
Paperback, 504 pages
Published
April 10th 1997
by University of California Press
(first published April 1995)
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Warren Dean was a pioneer and he wrote about Atlantic Forest history in a broad scale (time and space) that is unmatched till the present. These are the merits of the book, and they are huge. However it has the main flaw of considering the forest history only as one of destruction. And I think that the non-destruction (construction?)aspect of Atlantic forest history is of great importance. Most brazilians live in and from the activities that are developed on a ground that was Atlantic Forest. Th...more
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A study of the destruction of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Dean analyzes several environmental factors that contributed to the loss of this forest. It forces the reader to wonder if this pattern is being implemented on the Amazon Forest as well.
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