Roads, Indians and the environment in the Amazon
Subtitle: from Central Brazil to the Pacific Ocean
By: Mauro Leonel ; translation from Portuguese, Edda Frost and Sam Poole.
Series: IWGIA document ;; no. 72; IWGIA document ;; 72.
Publisher: IWGIA
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Roads -- Environmental aspects -- Amazon River Region.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Amazon River Region.; Roads -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil, North.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Brazil, North.
Description: "Highway BR-364 to the state of Rondônia and the proposed Pacific Highway to a Peruvian port are viewed as both conquering space and as weapons of conquest against indigenous peoples. Suggests mediation with independent interdisciplinary advisors prior to highway construction in hopes that the various cultural groups and the environment will be respected"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-155).
"IAMA-2 studies."