| 书目名称 | Man and Fisheries on an Amazon Frontier | | 编辑 | Michael Goulding | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Developments in Hydrobiology | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondönia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil‘s northern rainforest fron tier. In Brazil the name Rondönia evokes exaggerated images of lawlessness, land feuding, and indigent peasants in search of a homestead. Despite the problems and the perception, the region has pushed ahead, in the view of the govern ment, with large-scale deforestation and the establishment of cattle ranches and agricultural farms raising manioc, rice, bananas, and other cash crops. The mining industry has been launched with the exploitation oftin stone, and the recent gold rush has attracted thousands of miners that are sifting alluvial deposits along the rivers for the precious ore. In an energy-short world, the region boasts of its large hydroelectric potential waiting development in the rivers falling off the Brazilian Shield and draining into the Rio Madeira. Planners are optimistic that Rondönia‘s resources, once developed, will more than justify, at least in this corner of the rainforest frontier, the Economic Conquest ofthe Amazon. Sandwiched between the economic take-off and th | | 出版日期 | Book 1981 | | 关键词 | Rio Madeira; fisheries; fishing; fishing area; food fishes; marine and freshwater sciences | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2161-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8520-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-2161-5 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1981 |
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