Amazonia in the Anthropocene : people, soils, plants, forests /

"Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kawa, Nicholas C., 1981- (Author)
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human ecology > Amazon River Region. Climatic changes > Amazon River Region. Human beings > Effect of environment on > Amazon River Region. Human geography > Amazon River Region. Amazon River Region > Environmental conditions. Climatic changes. Ecology. Ethnobiology. Human beings > Effect of environment on. Human ecology. Human geography. Indians of South America > Ethnobiology. Amazon River Region.

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Amazonia in the anthropocene
People
Soils
Plants
Forests
From the anthropocene to the ecozoic?.