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...

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Main Author: Rolf Sternberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 1983-04-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671983000200371&tlng=en

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