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Translation problems! Some of the pages you link to may be in Portuguese. Try viewing the page with the help of Babel Fish. http://babelfish.altavista.com/
The Brazilian News digest. Scroll down right-hand column to click to a page of news links in English. http://www.thebrazilian.com
My Brasil Sergio Koreisha's eclectic guide to Brazil with links to all types of information. Useful factfile compiled from other sources. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil.html
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE Official data, much of which is broken down by region. Version in English. http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/default.php
History of Brazil http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/HISTOR~6.htm
Brazil A page of background information including a map. http://www.if.ufrj.br/general/brazil.html
Brazil's Ministry of External Relations provides summaries on a variety of topics including social housing, education, family planning, tourism, the rainforest, the four-year plan and a variety of regions and states. http://www.mre.gov.br/ndsg/texing.htm
Geography.About.com Page of general background material from specialist Geography site. http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa110997.htm?iam=spkask&terms=squatter%20settlements%20Brazil
UN Agenda 21 Page of links for Brazil on topics including human settlements and natural resources. http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/brazil/index.htm
Amazon News Weekly information service from Friends of the Earth. Will send you the latest environmental news in English by e-mail. http://www.amazonia.org.br
Rondonia is located in the western portion of the Amazon Basin in Brazil, near the Bolivian border. US college professor James Hayes-Bohanan teaches Environmental Geography at Bridgewater State College and did research in the 1990s in Rondonia. His site provides useful links (the truly dedicated can even read his PhD thesis). http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh The summary page 'Cities of Rondonia' is worth a visit. http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/rondonia.htm
Curitiba - Brazil's 'green city' ? |
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| Curitiba A plain text page on Curitiba, Brazil, and its visionary mayor - "...an inspirational city which has solved some of the most frustratingly simple social and environmental problems of urban living through the determination and innovation of the people at the top." http://www.globalideasbank.org/BI/BI-262.HTML | ||
| Curitiba City's own website in English. Pages on history (including immigration), economic development and transport.http://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/pmc/ingles/index.html | ||
| The World's best managed city? http://www.newhorizons.org/lrn_peirce.htm | ||
| Links for Curitiba from the Smithsonian. http://www.cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference/LinksDetail.cfm?custom21=Plenary%20Sessions&custom22=Curitiba%2C%20Brazi | l | |
Greatest cities Page on Rio with links to reference articles on contemporary issues, population, economy and government. http://www.greatestcities.com/South_America/Brazil/Rio_de_Janeiro_city/introduction.htm
Rio de Janeiro Many Cities in One History, geography, 'zones' and favelas. http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/chad/titlepag.htm
City profile of Rio http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/habitat/profiles/rio.asp
Cities of Rondonia http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/rondonia.htm
Self-help housing The Mutirao 50 Project is located in the Municipality of Caucaia in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, Brazil. The region has 2.5 million inhabitants - 540,720 live in "favelas". http://www.unesco.org/most/southam2.htm See also The Communidades Programme, Fortaleza. http://www.unesco.org/most/southam6.htm
World Bank Urban Poverty Strategy For the main regional trends http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/trends/regional.htm More specific information on Brazil http://poverty.worldbank.org/library/view/8637/
Social housing in Brazil Offical Brazilian government summary. http://www.mre.gov.br/ndsg/textos/habita-i.htm
| Advance Brazil The latest Brazilian government plan which aims to develop roads, railways, waterways and hydroelectric dams in the Brazilian Amazon region, costing £27 billion. Using sophisticated computer models and satellite images, scientists have predicted that 'Advance Brazil' could completely destroy 28% of the rainforest and leave only 28% undisturbed. The scale of the project could have global impacts as a huge amount of the world's biodiversity may be lost. Also, the rainforest will no longer act as an effective 'sink' to soak up the CO2 that contributes to global warming. Local climates may change too as the water cycle is disrupted. However, the Brazilian government argues that the rising population needs land to improve their quality of life, and the country needs to make money from natural resources to industrialise and to pay off foreign debt. | |
| Brazilian government sources The English language official site for Advance Brazil seems to have been removed. Others are only in portuguese. Submit to babelfish for a translation. http://babelfish.altavista.com/ | Avanca Brasil http://www.abrasil.gov.br/index.htm Federal government plans, projects and programmes. http://www.brasil.gov.br/planos.htm |
| A more critical view of Brazil's long-term plans. | http://www.solcomhouse.com/advancebrasil.htm |
| Serious academic research on Avanca Brasil | http://www.ipam.org.br/avanca/aben.htm |
| Great page on Amazonian rainforest with super satellite images (but takes a while to load). | http://www.solcomhouse.com/rainforest.html |
Banco Central do Brasil Economic digest available to download. Has a version of its site available in English. http://www.bcb.gov.br/defaulti.htm
Americas Minneapolis-based Resource Center of the Americas is the nonprofit publisher of this Latin America site. Focus on the global economy "...a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment". Country and/or topic based 'lens' allows you to link to news stories elsewhere (eg NY Times, Amnesty Int, Info Brazil). http://www.americas.org/
Amazon watch Good for news stories. A 12-page report, available as an acrobat pdf download, examines plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon (Aug 2001). http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsrm.html
NEAD Núcleo de Estudo Agrários e Desenvolvimento Rural - has an English version of the site, although not every page and link comes up in English. http://nead.org.br/ingles/ To translate try http://babelfish.altavista.com/
SUDENE The Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (Sudene) is a federal government agency created in 1959 to promote the development of the Northeast of Brazil. http://www.sudene.gov.br/ing/ingles.html
Xingu - Threat from dam development Indigenous and environmentalist organisations protested against the construction of Kararaô hydroelectric plant in the late 1980s. Now, in the wake of Brazil's electrical supply crisis, Eletronorte has returned with a plan to build a hydroelectric plant in the same region (Belo Monte). Article by Rodolfo Salm. http://www.amazonia.org.br/english/noticias/noticia.cfm?id=9290
MST The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement is the largest social movement in Latin America and one of the most successful grassroots movements in the world. Hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long-overdue land reform in a country mired by an overly skewed land distribution pattern. Less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of Brazil's arable land. http://www.mstbrazil.org/
Indigenous agroecology Biodiversity and indigenous agroecology in Amazonia - the Indigenous peoples of Pastaza. An Oxford research paper by Josep-Antoni Gari. http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/j~burke/wpapers/wpg00-04.html
Rainforest web An excellent starting point. Has pages of links for South America and Brazil. Pages of links on rainforest regions, destruction and protection. http://www.rainforestweb.org/
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Monitors the rainforest by satellite. http://www.inpe.br/english/index.htm Landsat images of Amazonia used by Prodes (the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Survey Project) in 1991.http://www.dpi.inpe.br/grid/quick-looks
Rainforest conservation and news http://forests.org/forests/brazil.html
World Rainforest Movement A global network of citizens' groups defending the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them. Works to secure the livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement. http://www.wrm.org.uy
Rainforest Action Network Campaigning group working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. Lots of useful background material. Downloadable factsheets (pdf) on destruction, economic alternatives and species extinction, plus reports and campaigns. http://www.ran.com
Amazon watch Good for news stories. Campaigns against mega-projects. A 12-page report, available as an acrobat pdf download, examines plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon (Aug 2001). http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsrm.html
Amazon News Weekly information service from Friends of the Earth. Will send you the latest environmental news in English by e-mail. http://www.amazonia.org.br http://www.amazonia.org.br/english/
Greenpeace view on the future of Amazonia. http://archive.greenpeace.org/~forests/forests_new/html/content/amaz_intro.html
World Bank reports Feed Amazonia into the search box to get a list. http://www-wds.worldbank.org Reports are sometimes made available as downloads through Brazil's Friends of the Earth. http://www.amazonia.org.br/english/
Amazon Link ACRE Pages on the Amazonian state of Acre including maps, biodiversity, indigeous people, rubber tappers, cattle ranching, Chico Mendes, extraction and sustainability. Acre is the westernmost Brazilian state neighbouring Peru and Bolivia. Around 93% of its territory is covered with tropical rainforest. http://www.amazonlink.org/ACRE/index.htm Geographical background http://www.amazonlink.org/ACRE/amazonas/rubber-tappers/acre.htm
Deforestation in Brazil Student's summary article - the position at start of 1990s. http://www.colby.edu/personal/t/thtieten/defor-brazil.html
Amazon Rainforest - The view from space A learning activity using Landsat images designed for group use. Analysis of satellite imagery allows the overall impact of people on the rain forest to be clearly seen; it allows measurement and evaluation to help decide what is happening, how fast it is happening, and where it is happening. (Wheeling Jesuit University/NASA Classroom of the Future™.) http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpamazon.html
IPMA Serious academic research on forest ecology, forest communities and public policy from University of Para based institute. http://www.ipam.org.br/homeen.htm
Amazonia The European Working Group on Amazonia site hopes to "...address as comprehensively and efficiently as possible numerous issues relating to the Amazon region." Links to topics such as land issues, infrastructure, biodiversity, rivers & dams, TNCs and of course forests. Some pages not as up-to-date as might be wished for. http://www.amazonia.net
Amazônia Brasileira Up-to-date stories from Brazilian national and regional newspapers. Click on the upper right-hand corner to get the site in English. Can also register for free e-mail newsletter (in English). Sustainable development page. Reports as pdf downloads. A non-profit Brazilian site in partnership with Amigos da Terra (FoE). http://amazonia.org.br In English http://www.amazonia.org.br/english/
Protecting Amazonia A CNN archive news story from May 2000. A minimum of 10% of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is to be set aside in an effort to preserve the region's extensive biodiversity. The programme is funded by the Global Environment Facility, the World Wildlife Fund and the Brazilian government. http://www.cnn/2000/NATURE/05/14/brazil.rainforest/
| For the latest news on Amazonia try searching: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ | |||||
| http://www.cnn.com | http://ens.lycos.com/ | www.planetark.org/index.cfm | http://www.earthtimes.org/ | |||
Journey into Amazonia A bit of fun where you can play at being an Amazon explorer (presumably meant for American high school students). Complements PBS TV series. http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia
Welcome to the Rainforest Site from politically correct Texan company Raintree Nutrition Inc. Background info. Plant database. Gallery of rainforest photo essays. Pages of forest facts and links. (Plus online shopping.) http://www.rain-tree.com
Rio+10: The World Summit on Sustainable Development will be a gathering in June 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa to assess global change since the Rio Earth Summit held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 1992. Under discussion will be important global environmental problems, for example, all kinds of pollution, climate change, the depletion of the ozone layer, the usage and management of ocean and fresh water resources, excessive deforestation, desertification and land degradation, hazardous waste, and depleting biological diversity. http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/
EcologyFund Make a daily donation to help save the Amazon Basin Rainforest. Works by clicking on the "Donate" buttons on the banner ads of sponsors and advertisers ho then pay for the purchase and protection of the amount of wilderness land indicated at the project selected. You can also find out about the projects. It costs you nothing to enable these donations. http://ecologyfund.com/registry/ecology/ecology.html
