HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY, REPRESSED DEMAND AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN AMAZONIA
SUMMARY The economic activities that have been historically identified with Brazilian Amazonia required no inanimate energy. Extraction of forest products was managed with manual labor, so was placer mining. Steam powered machines and internal combustion motors became part of doing things in the con...
Main Author: | Rolf Sternberg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
1983-04-01
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Series: | Acta Amazonica |
Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671983000200371&tlng=en |
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