Enriched with nearly 100 beautiful color photographs, Floods of Fortune offers the first holistic view of the conservation drama unfolding in the Amazonian floodplain.

Development planning for Amazonia: past and present; Regional population and labor forece; The regional economy: an overview; Fiscal incentives of SUDAN.

The most dire consequences of rapid population growth are thought by some to emerge in places where the size of the human population exceeds the carrying capacity of the land. This paper explores the possible meanings of the idea of carrying capacity under developing country conditions, looks at historical and present-day cases of alleged overpopulation in relation to carrying capacity, examines some of the systems and effects where such situations may be present, reviews some of the dynamic adaptions made by populations living under such pressures, and suggests some of the consequences for economic development and some of the options for public policy.

This 1981 report assesses the effects of the government's program to resettle Brazilians from the cities of the Atlantic Coast onto agricultural lands in the Bolivian border region.