The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin AmericaMichael Painter, William H. Durham University of Michigan Press, 1995 - 274 pages An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America |
Contents
Rethinking the Hamburger Thesis Deforestation and the Crisis of Central Americas Beef Exports | 25 |
Development Rural Impoverishment and Environmental Destruction in Honduras | 63 |
Colonization Development and Deforestation in Petén Northern Guatemala | 101 |
South America | 131 |
UplandLowland Production Linkages and Land Degradation in Bolivia | 133 |
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agencies agrarian reform agricultural Amarakaeri Amazon Anthropology areas Ashaninka Bedoya beef Bolivia cattle Central America Chapare chapter Chimán Forest Choluteca CIPA coca leaf coca producers Cochabamba Cochabamba Department colonists colonization commodity Costa Rica cotton crisis cultivation cultural decline deforestation demand Denevan Desarrollo Development Development Anthropology DIRECO domestic economic elite environment environmental degradation environmental destruction expansion fallow family labor FYDEP growth Guatemala hamburger hectares Honduras household important impoverishment income increased Indians Indígenas indigenous Institute La Paz labor scarcity land degradation Latin America livestock logging lowland Machiguenga melon ment migration million Moxos native natural resources off-farm Painter pasture peasant percent Peru pesticide Petén policies Political Ecology population Presencia processes production programs ranchers ranching rate of deforestation region Rican rural Santa Cruz Satipo sector settlement settlers shrimp farms smallholders social soil Stonich timber tion upland Upper Huallaga USAID zones