Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization SchemeThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Brazilian Amazon highway system | 3 |
Genesis of the Transamazon Scheme | 9 |
Family of mixed German and Italian descent from | 16 |
Part of a family of sixteen children from Ceará at agrovila | 23 |
The Ecological Setting | 30 |
Geologic substrate of Transamazon highway from Marabá | 32 |
Family weeding sixweekold rice near Nova Fronteira | 47 |
Settlement and Disease | 93 |
Potential Public Health Problems | 128 |
Public Health Services | 140 |
The public and private health sectors the | 146 |
The Transamazon and Regional | 169 |
Monthly Temperatures Rainfall | 187 |
Plants Used for Medicinal Purposes | 195 |
Bibliography | 201 |
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