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Too many Trees: not enough Wood? A Review of Recent Literature on Brazilian Amazonia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

John Dickenson
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , November 1986 , pp. 409 - 423
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1 This period is comprehensively surveyed in Weinstein, Barbara, The Amazon Rubber Boom 1850–1920 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983)Google Scholar. This is reviewed by Fifer, J. V. in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 16, (1984), pp. 516–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3 Examples of such work include the BBC TV series ‘Brazil, Brazil’ (guide, viewers': Brazil, Brazil (London: BBC Education, 1985))Google Scholar; Seymour, J. & Giradet, H., Far from Paradise: the Story of Man's Impact on the Environment (London: BBC, 1986Google Scholar) written to accompany a TV series of the same title; Holdstock, R., The Emerald Forest (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985Google Scholar) ‘the book of the film script’ and Boorman, J., Money into Light: the Emerald Forest (London: Faber & Faber, 1985)Google Scholar, the book of the making of the film!

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9 Ibid., p. 38. A recent study is highly critical of the way such figures are arrived at and suggests a much lower rate of loss, of 17.5 million acres. Simon, J. L., ‘Disappearing Species, Deforestation and Data’, New Scientist, 15 05 1986, pp. 60–3.Google Scholar

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24 L. J. A. Mougeot, ‘Alternative Migration Targets and Brazilian Amazonia's Closing Frontier’, Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 51–90.

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38 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 2. The title of Bunker's, Stephen essay ‘Misdirected Expertise in an Unknown Environment’ (pp. 102–18Google Scholar) might here be used as a double-edged weapon!