The tropical rain forest of the Brazilian Amazon has become one of the familiar modern metaphors for wanton destruction. This study addresses this crisis. It argues that in the last two decades those who forged and applied conservation programmes in Brazil misunderstood a basic component of development politics. In his view, top government officials supported conservation more to advance immediate foreign and domestic policy goals and less because of the benefits conservation promissed.
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The tropical rain forest of the Brazilian Amazon has become one of the familiar modern metaphors for wanton destruction. This study addresses this crisis. It argues that in the last two decades those who forged and applied conservation programmes in Brazil misunderstood a basic component of development politics. In his view, top government officials supported conservation more to advance immediate foreign and domestic policy goals and less because of the benefits conservation promissed.
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Textual maps & tables. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, x, 366 pp. Contents: Nature & the Practice of Development; Tracking the Landscape of Biological Value; The Mosaic of Opportunity; Conservation Ascendant; The Unseen Limits of Amazon Conservation; The Lees of Success: The IBDF in the Eighties; Defending the Natural Areas in the Eighties; Hobson's Choice: SEMA in the Eighties; Discerning the Limits of Providence in the Nineties and Beyond; Appendices.
