Overview
- Offers a new conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding frontier-making in today’s world, based on extensive and ongoing empirical research
- Focuses on one of the most controversial and difficult processes of regional development and socio-environmental change in the Amazon region
- Addresses the encroachment and consolidation of the agribusiness sector in the Amazon region, a topic of growing international interest
Part of the book series: Key Challenges in Geography (KCHGE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Development Studies
- Agricultural frontier in the Amazon
- Frontier-Making and Land-Grabbing
- Regional Development of the Amazon region
- Agribusiness in the Amazon
- Regional infrasctucture in the Amazon
- Environmental Conflicts
- Land use in the Amazon
- Agrarian Conflicts
- Political Geography
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental Geography
- latin american politics
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Antonio Augosto Rossotto Ioris is reader in Human Geography at Cardiff University’s School of Geography and Planning.
His academic interests are primarily in the political dimension of the interconnections and inter-dependencies between society and the rest of nature. Most of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups, and creative responses at different geographical scales. His work is intended to have both academic and more-than-academic relevance and is focused on socio-natural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frontier Making in the Amazon
Book Subtitle: Economic, Political and Socioecological Conversion
Authors: Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Series Title: Key Challenges in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38524-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38523-1Published: 22 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38526-2Published: 22 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38524-8Published: 21 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2522-8420
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Geography, Human Geography, Agricultural Economics, Economic Geography, Cultural Geography, Latin American Politics