Book chapters by KU researchers
Bioenergy and Land Use Change by Publication Date: 2017Caldas, Marcellus, Gabriel Granco, Christopher Bishop, Jude Kastens, and J. Christopher Brown. “Effects of Sugarcane Ethanol Expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado: Land Uses Response in the New Frontier.” Book Chapter.
Shades of Green by Call Number: Anschutz Library GE195 .S44 2006ISBN: 0742546470Publication Date: 2006Chapter by KU professor, J. Christopher Brown: Placing local environmental protest within global environmental networks: colonist farmers and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon- Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation byCall Number: Anschutz Library S936 .G56 2006ISBN: 0226983439Publication Date: 2006Chapter by KU professor, J. Christopher Brown: Productive conservation and its representation : the case of beekeeping in the Brazilian Amazon
Placing Latin America by Call Number: Anschutz Library GF514 .P53 2008ISBN: 0742556433Publication Date: 2008Chapter by KU professor, J. Christopher Brown: NGOs and ongoing changes in Latin American society
Books by KU authors
- A new species of Jenynsia (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from Brazil with comments on the composition and taxonomy of the genus byCall Number: Anschutz Library QH1 .K35 no. 179Publication Date: 1996
- The status of the hylid frog genus Ololygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830 byCall Number: Anschutz Library QH1 .K35 no. 151Publication Date: 1992
- Quantitative analysis of the ecological distribution of a tropical herpetofauna byCall Number: Anschutz Library QH1 .K35 no. 1-21Publication Date: 1971
Inter-oceanic Highway in Brazil
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- Interoceanic HighwayJournal and newspaper articles.
Electronic resources available at KU - Environment and climate
Brazil in the Anthropocene by Publication Date: 2016
In Search of the Amazon by Publication Date: 2013
The Devouring Dragon by Publication Date: 2013- Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism : current global challenges byPublication Date: 2018
- Nature’s microworlds. AmazonPublication Date: 2012
Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon by Publication Date: 2020- Brazil [electronic resource] : Urban Planning Challenges byPublication Date: 2009
- Only one Earth [electronic resource] : the long road via Rio to sustainable development byCall Number: Connect to electronic text. - (Source: Ebrary)Publication Date: 2012
- Tourism in Brazil [electronic resource] : environment, management and segments byCall Number: Connect to electronic text. - (Source: Ebook library eDDA)Publication Date: 2012
- Environment, urbanization, and the rise of mechanized agriculture in southeastern Rondonia, Brazil [electronic resource] byCall Number: Available via the Internet - (Source: UMI/ProQuest).Publication Date: 2005
Books available at KU - Environment and climate
The Amazon Rush Gold and Environmental Mercury Contamination by Publication Date: 2009Engineering Library
Environmental & Cultural News
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- More members of Amazonian tribe seek help from BrazilJonathan Watts in Rio, The Guardian, Aug. 14, 2014
More than 20 members of an isolated Amazonian tribe have made contact with the Brazilian authorities amid growing fears that they are being driven from their forest home by drug smugglers or illegal loggers. - Video - Amazon tribe makes 'first contact' with outside worldFootage released by Brazil's National Indian Foundation shows isolated indigenous people coming forward for outside assistance after fleeing attacks in Peru. The people, whose language is recognised as part of the Pano linguistic group, reportedly crossed the border after coming under pressure from illegal logging and drug trafficking at home
- Brazil builds giant Amazon observation towerBBC News - 14 September 2014
Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Amazon basin to monitor climate change.
The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is expected to rise 325m from the ground.
Its instruments will gather data on greenhouse gases, aerosol particles and the weather in one of the largest continuous rain forests on the planet. - Brazil drought crisis leads to rationing and tensionsJonathan Watts in São Paulo, The Guardian, Sept. 5, 2014
Water rationed in 19 cities in southeast and central regions after usually abundant supplies run dry.