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Conservación Y Desarrollo En Las Fronteras Amazónicas Entre Perú Y Acre, Brasil, David S. Salisbury
Conservación Y Desarrollo En Las Fronteras Amazónicas Entre Perú Y Acre, Brasil, David S. Salisbury
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Conservación y Desarrollo en las Fronteras Amazónicas entre Perú y Acre, Brasil
Conservation and Development in the Amazonian Frontier between Peru and Acre, Brazil
Gis Maps And The Amazon Borderlands, David S. Salisbury
Gis Maps And The Amazon Borderlands, David S. Salisbury
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With training, GIS can be used by all sectors of Latin American society and is the mapping tool of choice for institutions ranging from the Inter-American Development Bank to remote communities in the Amazon rain forest. Geographic information systems are thus a tool of the powerful and the marginalized and the official and the unofficial. [...] In this chapter, we see how GIS maps can improve our ability to analyze conflict over resources and allow additional participation in the process of mapping, but we also confront some of the many political and technical challenges that must be overcome to construct …