The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development (Paperback, 1)

Preface -- The Human Dimension of Amazonian Development -- Growth Without Development: Past and Present Development Efforts in Amazonia -- Development and Amazonian Indians: The Aguarico Case and Some General Principles -- Forest to Pasture: Frontier Settlement in the Bolivian Lowlands -- Entrepreneurs and Bureaucrats: The Rise of an Urban Middle Class -- Assessment of Current Systems of Production -- Crop Production Systems in the Amazon Basin -- Cattle Ranching in the Eastern Amazon: Environmental and Social Implications -- Amazonian Fisheries -- Precipitating Change in Amazonia -- Methodological Issues and Future Research Directions -- Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Development of the Amazon -- Peasant and Capitalist Production in the Brazilian Amazon: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Frontier Expansion -- Stochastic Modeling in Human Carrying-Capacity Estimation: A Tool for Development Planning in Amazonia -- Government-Directed Settlement in the 1970s: An Assessment of Transamazon Highway Colonization -- Development of the Brazilian Amazon: Prospects for the 1980s