Chico Mendes, the rubber tappers and the Indians: reimagining conservation and development in the Amazon

In the mid-1970’s rubber tapper leaders Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro reformulated strategic objectives of the rubber tappers’ movement, from protesting and denouncing violent dispossession of families and deforestation to defending rubber tappers’ forest territories and diversified land use. Thi...

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Main Author: Stephan Schwartzman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2018-11-01
Series:Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufpr.br/made/article/view/58829