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Amazônia Urgent: Five centuries of history and ecology
AMAZONIA URGENT: FIVE CENTURIES OF HISTORY AND ECOLOGY is both a museum exhibition and a book. The latter - an exhibition guide - reproduces text and images of the former.
AMAXONIA URGENT impresses upon the reader clear notions of the ecological equilibrium which unsuitable technological progress is threatening to destroy. It shows that the Amazonian ecosystems are living organisms: what happens to their nuclei and to the forest covering influences the climate, the hydric system and the soil. The book uses a inter-disciplinary approach and brings together Geoscience, Biology and the Social Sciences, in particular Anthropology and History.
A multi-disciplinar approach is crucial in enabling us to put forth alternatives for a self-sustained management of Amazonia. It is the only way to identify the physical components, the historical factors, the political ingredients and the economic stimulae underlying the old and new exploration models, as well as the social and environmental costs they entail.
The result of this analysis, which is not based on misinformation and falsification, but on scientific foundations, is open for discussion. Its aim is to raise the consciousness not only of entrepreneurs and Government officials, but of wider sections of the public, so that the traditional neglect with which the Amazonian ecosystems ans its indigenous and caboclo inhabitants have been - and continue to be - treated will not be repeated.
AMAXONIA URGENT impresses upon the reader clear notions of the ecological equilibrium which unsuitable technological progress is threatening to destroy. It shows that the Amazonian ecosystems are living organisms: what happens to their nuclei and to the forest covering influences the climate, the hydric system and the soil. The book uses a inter-disciplinary approach and brings together Geoscience, Biology and the Social Sciences, in particular Anthropology and History.
A multi-disciplinar approach is crucial in enabling us to put forth alternatives for a self-sustained management of Amazonia. It is the only way to identify the physical components, the historical factors, the political ingredients and the economic stimulae underlying the old and new exploration models, as well as the social and environmental costs they entail.
The result of this analysis, which is not based on misinformation and falsification, but on scientific foundations, is open for discussion. Its aim is to raise the consciousness not only of entrepreneurs and Government officials, but of wider sections of the public, so that the traditional neglect with which the Amazonian ecosystems ans its indigenous and caboclo inhabitants have been - and continue to be - treated will not be repeated.
272 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1992
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July 22, 2019
Still urgent after 27 years since the book was written. I liked how the book was written, as an exibition guide, it was not too heavy as the chapters were steaight to the point and very descriptive. The graphics were not very good quality though.
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