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AMAZON GRACE.

Authors :
Babbitt, Bruce
Source :
New Republic. 6/25/90, Vol. 202 Issue 26, p18-22. 3p. 1 Map.
Publication Year :
1990

Abstract

Explores the devastation caused by the construction of BR 364, a major road project in Brazil. Environmental costs; Impact on local Indian tribes; Why the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank are helping to fund the project; Efforts of Project Acre, a program designed to control the forest destruction that will accompany the road-building; Questions the value of BR 364. INSET: Rain forest chic (about cultural survival, a project run by....

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
202
Issue :
26
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
9007020142