Chapter 44: How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suru Indians in the Amazon rainforest – success under threat
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Published:
11 Dec 2020
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306–308
Collection:
Economics 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00057
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In the hart of the Amazon forest the Surui community blend traditional knowledge and modern science in sustainable forestry; but once again a deadly threat is coming from the white Brazil.
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Standing up for a Sustainable World
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Published:
11 Dec 2020
Print ISBN:
9781800371774
eISBN:
9781800371781
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781
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496
Collection:
Economics 2020
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Front Matter
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Part I: Introduction
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Part II: Defenders
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Part III: Litigants
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Part IV: Coming generations on the front line
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Part V: Entrepreneurs
Chapter 29: Introduction to Part V
Chapter 30: Catching mighty North Sea winds
Chapter 31: Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India
Chapter 32: Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings
Chapter 33: The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones
Chapter 34: From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia1
Chapter 35: The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one
Chapter 36: Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions
Chapter 37: Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change?
Chapter 38: Ecological engineering in coastal protection
Chapter 39: Better to corrupt plastics than the environment
Chapter 40: Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillels legacy
Chapter 41: Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs
Chapter 42: Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry?
Chapter 43: Ethan Brown - the protein revolutionary
Chapter 45: Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages - Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano
Chapter 46: How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development
Part VI: Investors
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Part VII: Communicators
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