Underdeveloping the Amazon
Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
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Underdeveloping the Amazon
Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin’s ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.
296 pages | 2 maps | 6 x 9 | © 1988
Biological Sciences: Conservation, Tropical Biology and Conservation
Economics and Business: Economics--Agriculture and Natural Resources
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Words and Phrases in Portuguese Used in the Text
Introduction
1. Energy Values in Unequal Exchange and Uneven Development
2. Extractive Economies and the Degradation of Natural and Human Environments
3. The Modern State, Capitalist Expansion, and Amazonian Extraction
4. The Limits of State Power on an Extractive Periphery
5. Power Differentials between Agencies and the Distortion of State Programs
6. The Cost of Modernity: Complex Bureaucracy and the Failure of the Colonization Program
7. Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Two Colonization Projects
8. The Failure of Cooperatives
9. Modernizing Land Tenure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Words and Phrases in Portuguese Used in the Text
Introduction
1. Energy Values in Unequal Exchange and Uneven Development
2. Extractive Economies and the Degradation of Natural and Human Environments
3. The Modern State, Capitalist Expansion, and Amazonian Extraction
4. The Limits of State Power on an Extractive Periphery
5. Power Differentials between Agencies and the Distortion of State Programs
6. The Cost of Modernity: Complex Bureaucracy and the Failure of the Colonization Program
7. Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Two Colonization Projects
8. The Failure of Cooperatives
9. Modernizing Land Tenure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index