Nature and development in the Amazon: dialogues between economics, planning and historical ecology
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Harley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-23T09:02:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-23T09:02:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses the possibilities of territorial and economic planning in the Amazon, based on the modification of assumptions regarding the forest / society posed by archaeological research, anthropological and historical ecology of the region. The Amazon has been frequent targets of plans and private and government projects (Schmink, Wood 1992). Most of these plans remained a truncated dialogue with the environmental characteristics of the region. The recurring picture is attempted dissemination conditions of urban-industrial production and consumption in conflict with the rain forest and the ecological complex corresponds to it - soil, rivers, climate, biodiversity. At the heart of this contradiction is the opposition between the forest as pure nature and human presence as disturbing factor. In this conception the Amerindian populations were almost always taken as guests and beneficiaries of nature. Few in number, technologically primitive, her virtue would live "in harmony with the forest", that is, not to change the natural conditions, either for impoverishment is to improve the diversity, density, dispersion, etc .. In this view there would be no indigenous peoples created civilizations, and do not provide elements for discussion of human presence in the Amazon, except in a possible return to non-intervention in nature. In any size they would have done what we call development - material, cultural, artistic or other. So any development would be creation of an external introduction, which speaks to the environmental conditions, but not with the local social history. Plans and projects for the Amazon in these terms tend for disruptive character - alter the nature and could not benefit indigenous. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1640-1642 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1895 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Nature and development in the Amazon: dialogues between economics, planning and historical ecology | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |