{"product_id":"the-colonization-of-the-amazon-anna-luiza-ozorio-de-almeida-9780292755987","title":"The Colonization of the Amazon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeforestation 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, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. \u003ci\u003eThe Colonization of the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Luiza Ozorio De Almeida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292755988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292755987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Anna Luiza Ozorio De Almeida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096668446975,"sku":"9780292755987","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-colonization-of-the-amazon-anna-luiza-ozorio-de-almeida-9780292755987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}