Human impacts on Amazonia :  the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development / 
edited by Darrell Addison Posey and Michael J. Balick. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  c2006. 
 - xvi, 366 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - Biology and resource management series .
 - Biology and resource management in the tropics series. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Thoughts on the future of Amazonia : the region, residents, researchers, and realities / Michael J. Balick -- Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians / John Hemming -- Constructing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- Fire in Romania, 1998 - politics and human impact : what role for indigenous people in Brazilian Amazonia? / Elizabeth Allen -- The Cerrado of Brazilian  Amazonia : a much-endangered vegetation / James A. Ratter, J. Felipe Ribeiro, and Samuel Bridgewater -- A review of Amazonian wetlands and rivers : valuable environments under threat / Christopher Barrow -- Fragility and resilience of Amazonian soils : models from indigenous management / Peter A. Furley -- Is successful development of Brazilian Amazonia possible without knowledge of the soil and soil response to development? / Stephen Nortcliff -- Fragile soils and deforestation impacts : the rationale for environmental services of standing forest as a development paradigm in Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Concurrent activities and invisible technologies : an example of timber management in Amazonia / Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez -- Institutional and economic issues in the promotion of commercial forest management in Amerinidian societies / Michael Richards -- Collect or cultivate - a conundrum : comparative population ecology of ipecac (Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson), a neotropical understory herb / Jan Salick -- Extractivism, domestication, and privatization of a native plant resource : the case of jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf ex Holmes) in Maranhão, Brazil / Claudio Urbano B. Pinheiro -- Peasant riverine economies and their impact in the lower Amazon / Mark Harris -- Conservation, economics, traditional knowledge, and the Yanomami : implications and benefits for whom? / William Milliken -- The commodification of the Indian / Alcida Rita Ramos -- Euphemism in the forest : ahistoricism and the valorization of indigenous knowledge / Stephen Nugent -- What's the difference between a Peace Corps worker and an anthropologist? A millennium rethink of anthropological fieldwork / Joanna Overing -- Traditional resource use and ethnoeconomics : sustainable characteristics of the Amerindian lifestyles / Clóvis Cavalcanti -- Enhancing social captial : productive conservation and traditional knowledge in the Brazilian rain forest / Anthony Hall. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0231105886 (alk. paper) 0231105894 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231105897 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005053931 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA572887  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013282565  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Amazon River Region.<br/>Traditional ecological knowledge--Amazon River Region.<br/>Indians of South America--Ethnobotany--Amazon River Region.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--Amazon River Region.<br/>Soil degradation--Amazon River Region.<br/>Environmental degradation--Amazon River Region.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Amazon River Region--Environmental conditions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GF532.A4  / H85 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2/09811 
<br/><br/><label>National Agricultural Library Call No.: </label>GF532.A4  / H85 2006