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With implications for the human role in global environmental change, this timely study explores how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have affected their environment and how that environment sometimes resists human manipulation.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Amazonia in the Anthropocene
  • 2. People
  • 3. Soils
  • 4. Plants
  • 5. Forests
  • 6. From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic?
  • Appendix: Useful Botanical Species Surveyed in Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

Amazonia in the Anthropocene

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 10/05/2016
      ISBN13: 9781477308448, 978-1477308448
      ISBN10: 147730844X
      Also in:
      Forests and woodland The Earth: natural history: general interest Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With implications for the human role in global environmental change, this timely study explores how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have affected their environment and how that environment sometimes resists human manipulation.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Amazonia in the Anthropocene
      • 2. People
      • 3. Soils
      • 4. Plants
      • 5. Forests
      • 6. From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic?
      • Appendix: Useful Botanical Species Surveyed in Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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