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Citation Misra, Rameshwar Prasad, Bertha K. Becker, and Nguyen Tri Dung, eds. Regional Development in Brazil: The Frontier and Its People, UNCRD Country Monograph. UNCRD Country Monograph: UNCRD Country Monograph, 1985.


Title



Regional Development in Brazil: The Frontier and Its People

Year 1985
Editor
Becker, Bertha K. Professor, Instituto de Geociencias - CCMN, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, R.J., Brazil
Editor
Dung, Nguyen Tri Research Associate, UNCRD, Nagoya, Japan
Editor
Misra, Rameshwar Prasad Vice Chancellor, Allahabad University, Allahabad, U.P., India
Material Type Edited Book
Features  
Pages 314 p.
Relationships Part of

UNCRD Country Monograph

Contents

 
p. 1-34 Regional Development Strategies and Economic Exploitation Policies in Amazonia: Recent Trends in Spatial Organization of a Tropical Frontier Region in Brazil

p. 35-67 Industrialization of Brazilian Agriculture and Debilitation of the Amazon Frontier

p. 68-79 Technology and the Relationships of the Brazilian and Amazonian Growth Models

p. 80-103 Colonization Projects of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1980s: Development or a New Planning Disaster?

p. 104-121 Government Colonization Projects and the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier: A Case Study in Altamira

p. 122-136 Cerrados Region (Low, Closed Woodland Area): Importance, Characteristics and Technology for Its Utilization

p. 137-184 Experience and Propsects of a Spatial Policy in Northeast Brazil

p. 185-219 Emergence of Participatory Planning Strategy in the State of Minas Gerais: A Politico-Institutional Appraisal

p. 223-239 Strategies for Social Differentiation and Labour Mobility in Eastern Amazonia: A Neglected Aspect of Regional Development Theory and Policy

p. 240-285 Social Dynamics of Industry Location in Brazil: Technology, Labour Market Bargaining, Income and Growth

p. 286-305 Alternative Migration Targets and Brazilian Amazonia's Closing Frontier: A Synthesis

p. 306-314 Methodological Alternative to Study Migration in Latin America

Subjects BRAZIL 01.04.03
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 03.02.03
Abstract  
Control No. CM 1985 RD

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