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Chapters: São Gabriel Da Cachoeira, Atalaia Do Norte, Lábrea, Nhamundá, Tupinambarana, São Paulo de Olivença, Santo Antônio Do Içá, Jaú National Park, Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Piedra Del Cocuy, Feijoal, Amazonas, Maués, Tabatinga, Meeting of Waters, Vale Do Javari, Parintins, Vaupés River, Urubu River, Tefé, Içana River, Uatumã River, Santa Isabel Do Rio Negro, Serra Imeri, Tres Fronteras, Papurí River, Japurá, Cucui, Uruá River, Barcelos Municipality, Amazonas, Manacapuru, Jutaizinho River, Nhamundá River, Canutama, Tefé River, Madeirinha River, Apuí, Jufari River, Benjamin Constant, Amazonas, Aripuanã River, Cuieiras River, Alalaú River, Guaribe River, Mamuru River, Ituxi River, Preto River, Pauini River, Jutai River, Jaquirana River, Paraná Urariá, Maici River, Canumã River, Jandiatuba River, Arauá River, Amanã River, Curuçá River, Ipixuna River, Preto Da Eva River, Manacapuru River, Jacaré River, Prêto Do Igapó-Açu River, Açuã River, Acari River, Jauaperi River, Jari River, Biá River, Tapauá River, Jatapu River, Mutum River, São Sebastião Do Uatumã, Coari River, Unini River, Maraã, Carabinarni River, Jaú River, Mapiá Grande River, Mineruázinho River, Atucatiquini River, Dos Marmelos River, Autaz-Mirim River, Curicuriari River, Maués Açu River, Apoquitaua River, Atiparaná River, Curuquetê River, Itaparaná River, Ciriquiri River, Itanhauá River, Jatuarana River, Manicoré River, Maracanã River, Sucunduri River, Tonantins River, Uaicurapa River, Ararirá River, Badajós River, Camanaú River, Capucapu River, Cauaburi River, Copatana River, Curiuaú River, Curuduri River, Endimari River, Itucumã River, Mamoriá River, Marauiá River, Marimari River, Mataurá River, Matupiri River, Padauari River, Papagaio River, Paraconi River, Paracori River, Parauari River, Piratucu River, Riozinho River, Sepatini River, Araçá River, Camaiú River, Caurés River, Cuniuá River, Guariba River, Inauini River, Itaquai River, Jamicia Ri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2965386 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by American Geographical Society on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 3559 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: House lot gardens as living space in the Brazilian Amazon.
Author: Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 52Issue: 3-4Page: 31(8)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brazil is currently divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). These divisions are composed of states with similar cultural, economical, historical and social aspects, and, although information given by this type of division is not very accurate from the scientific point of view, this division is the most widely used in Brazil because official information given by the IBGE uses this system.The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística), is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. The IBGE performs a national census every ten years, and the questionnaires account for information such as age, household income, literacy, education, occupation and hygiene levels. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Cultural Geography, published by JCG Press on June 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8712 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: (Re)creating places and spaces in two countries: Brazilian transnational migration processes.(Report)
Author: Alan Patrick Marcus
Publication: Journal of Cultural Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: JCG Press
Volume: 26Issue: 2Page: 173(26)

Article Type: Report

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Brazilian," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Brazilian in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Brazilian when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Brazilian, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Brazilian," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Brazilian in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Brazilian when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Brazilian, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Brazilian," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Brazilian in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Brazilian when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Brazilian, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Applied Geography, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We evaluated how different variables reflecting human occupation in Brazilian Cerrado are correlated with diversity patterns and which one could be the best indicator of conflicts between biodiversity conservation and socio-economic development across the region. A spatially corrected multiple regression of anuran species richness against axes derived from a principal component analysis summarizing 23 socioeconomic variables was performed. Species richness was positively correlated with the first two principal components, expressing patterns of modern agriculture and cattle ranching, respectively, but not with the third component, expressing human population size. Thus, human population density is not the best indicator of conflicts and, consequently, other socio-economic variables should be considered to minimize costs when establishing regional programs for conservation planning in Brazilian Cerrado. ... Read more

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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants.Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990sthrough the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century.Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest. ... Read more

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A Great Book!
To read this book is to learn how a colonization exterminated the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Laws, economics process, natives agriculture, how the urbanization burned the forest and fens. Except the first chaptre, about the evolution of the forest by geologic times, all is perfect.
I use this book in my class - Geography of Brazil and the students love it. (...)

What can I say?It's great!
Having actually lived in the country and visited the Amazon rain forest, this depiction of the destruction of the Atlantic rainforest and the effects there is highly factual and rather interesting.It is one of theonly successful ecological histories about a forest!If you want a goodread about the disappearance of one of Brazil's most historical aspects,then this book is for you.

Impressive environmental history of Brazil
This book is bound to change your view of Brazilian history, and of environmental history. A must read for anyone interested in either. A good Portuguese language translation is available. ... Read more

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Based on the author's field and archival research over a fifteen year period, this fascinating handbook shows how the musical culture of northeast Brazil emerged and evolved, exploring the interrelated traditional musical styles that helped give the region—and ultimately the Brazilian nation—such a distinctive cultural identity.

Moving from broad comparative overviews to specific types of music, the book looks at the social contexts, performance practices, musical structures, and cultural meanings that lie behind the music and provides up-close encounters with contemporary musicians creating and maintaining the area's traditions. Additionally, the book examines the role of music and dance traditions in shaping racial identities in Brazil (blackness, whiteness, mulattoness). The accompanying CD, loaded with both commercial and field recordings, brings the book's ideas and discoveries vividly to life.

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Covers its early influences and the mix of peoples who have contributed to changes in the genre
Any with more than a casual interest in Brazilian music history simply must look at this top ethnomusicology study Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions And The Heartbeat Of A Modern Nation: it provides college-level audiences with a survey of the unique regional musical traditions of Brazil, covers its early influences and the mix of peoples who have contributed to changes in the genre, and shows how Brazilian popular music rooted in rural traditions flourished throughout the country. The author's own observations and perceptions of Brazilian music and dance permeate his studies of the region and provide a personal touch to a scholarly, college-level analysis.
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The Earth's water is always in movement, and the water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Thus, the water cycle describes the processes that drive the movement of water throughout the hydrosphere, whilst a reservoir represents the water contained in different steps within the cycle. In general, there is a relationship between the mineral composition of natural water and that of the solid minerals with which the water has been in contact. This relationship may be comparatively simple and uncomplicated, as in the case of an aquifer receiving direct recharge by rainfall and from which water is discharged without contacting any other aquifer or other water. This book discusses how different techniques can be utilised to investigate the water movement in different aquifer systems occurring in Brazil. ... Read more

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The GeoInfo series of scientific conferences is an annual forum for exploring research, development and innovative applications in geographic information science and related areas. This book provides a privileged view of what is currently happening in the field of geoinformatics, and a preview of what could be the hotter developments and research topics a few years from now. Additionally, it includes recent research results on spatial databases, spatial ontologies, computational geometry and visualization for geographic information systems, geostatistics and spatial statistics, spatial analysis, interoperability, and innovative applications of geotechnologies.

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Presenting an economic perspective of deforestation in the Brazilan Amazon, this study utilizes economic and ecological data from 1970 to 1996. It examines the extent to which land clearing promotes economic activity and growth and analyzes policies such as road building and subsidized credit. It explores whether the economic benefits of land clearing surpass the ecological costs and considers the viability of extractivism as an alternative to deforestation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1337 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CAMPANHA GAUCHA: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920.
Author: Paul F. Starrs
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 90Issue: 2Page: 292

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 5963 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PERI-URBAN AGROFORESTRY IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON [*].
Author: Vanessa A. V. Slinger
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 90Issue: 2Page: 177

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