TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ioris,Antonio Augusto Rossotto
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Frontier Making in the Amazon: Economic, Political and Socioecological Conversion 
T2  - Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
SN  - 9783030385248
AV  - G143 
U1  - 333.709 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Environmental geography
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Agricultural economics
KW  - Economic geography
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Latin America-Politics and government
KW  - Environmental Geography
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Agricultural Economics
KW  - Economic Geography
KW  - Cultural Geography
KW  - Latin American Politics
N1  - Introduction: Frontier thinking and the Amazon region -- Scarcities and abundances in place and time: A proposed conceptualisation of frontier making -- Placing the agricultural frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil -- Peasant farming in the Amazon frontiers -- Water and energy frontiers in the Amazon -- Production of poverty and the poverty of production in the Amazon -- Disrupting frontier development from within: The latent geographical agency of indigenous peoples -- Development and conservation frontiers in the Pantanal wetland -- Conclusion: Lessons learned to expand frontier theory
N2  - This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38524-8
ER  -