Sustaining Amazonia: Grassroots Action for Productive Conservation

Challenges the popular stereotypes of small producers in the Brazilian Amazon as either passive victims or active destroyers of rainforest resources by documenting how rubber tappers, fishers, and small farmers on the Transamazon highway have become active defenders of their threatened environments and the most important providers of solutions to the challenge of achieving sustainable development. Hall (social planning in developing countries, London School of Economics and Political Science) has done much of his own fieldwork in Brazil, and was Oxfam's representative in the country from 1977 to 1981. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.