title: Amazonia and Other Forests of Brazil
author: Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes PhD
description: <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes, PhD</B>, is a Brazilian scientist and ecology professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco&#150;Brazil.</P>
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  WARREN DEAN
  
  For Tom, Julie and Yun-ah
  QUEM VIER DEPOIS, QUE SE ARRANJE.
  Old Brazilian saying
  The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution provided by the General
  Endowment Fund of the Associates of the University of California Press.
  The publisher wishes to thank Jeffrey Lesser, who kindly offered to proofread this book and
  answer editorial queries.
   
  
  List of Maps
  Foreword by Stuart B. Schwartz
  Acknowledgments
  1 THE FOREST EVOLVES
  2 HUMANS INVADE: THE FIRST WAVE
  3 HUMANS INVADE: THE SECOND WAVE
  4 ESTRANGEMENT: DEPOPULATION AND THE REGROWN FOREST
  5 GOLD AND DIAMONDS, ANTS AND CATTLE
  6 SCIENCE DISCOVERS THE FOREST
  7 THE FOREST UNDER BRAZILIAN RULE
  8 COFFEE DISPOSSESSES THE FOREST
  9 INSTRUMENTS OF DEVASTATION
  10 SPECULATION AND CONSERVATION
  11 INDUSTRIAL NOMADISM, PREDATORY INDUSTRIALISM
  12 THE DEVELOPMENT IMPERATIVE
  13 UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
  14 GETTING IT OFF THE PAPER
  15 THE VALUE OF BARE GROUND
  Notes
  Pronouncing Glossary
  Index
  
   
  
  1. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest 