Amazonian Rain Forests formatIsbn:Softcover - 9781461291022 the Faculty of Economics of

the Faculty of Economics of the Erasmus University

aufgrund der starken Einschränkung in der Lebensmittelauswahl

Vor allem ist es in der heutigen Zeit

This Janus-faced construction of race is maintained by economists' stubborn ad herence to the market power hypothesis

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Amazonian Rain Forests formatIsbn:Softcover - 9781461291022 the Faculty of Economics ofDEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5. 8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of immen sity is similar when viewed from the Amazon River itself, or from its tributar ies. From a hammock on the shaded deck of a riverboat, the immensity