Any planning must start with careful consideration of what development objectives are
appropriate. The frame of reference is crucial. Here I start from the premise that planning is …

Abstract The Conference on the Development of Amazonia in Seven Countries (Bolivia,
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela) offered a multi-disciplinary …

This essay examines relevant aspects of governmental planning for the Brazilian Amazon. It
focuses on the analysis of previous public planning in two different periods (militaryled …

In a past issue, the Third World Planninn Review published a very comprehensive article
concerning Brasilia, the new Brazilian capital. 1 Emphasis is put on the dichotomies …

Reviews 489 for planning, as opposed to an explanatory tool for demographic and
technological changes, the concept has potential importance. Greater concern exists about …

It is becoming more and more evident, that, over the past twenty years, the changes in the
political circumstances of the developing countries have forced gov-ernments to recognise …

This paper examines the efforts to develop the Amazon region of Brazil, and in particular the
State of Rondonia, to see how economic development affects human values. It looks at the …

Although his fieldwork in the Amazon enriched him as a scientist, Moran is not kind to the
very program that took him there. He concludes that" the colonization proved a failure"(p …

One of the more dubious accomplishments of the military regime that still rules Brazil, after a
fashion, was the revival of the myth of the Amazon as a tropical treasure trove.* Despite …