BRAZIL'S BR-364 HIGHWAY: A ROAD TO NOWHERE?

This article criticises the construction of BR-364, the trans- Amazonian highway to the Brazilian frontier state of Acre, which taken decades to plan and build. During the 1980s, an internatio protest was caused by the genocide and deforestation that the BR- construction, as a military operation by the dictatorship that wa then in power, catalysed in the state of Rondonia through which i passed. Indigenous people in other areas were also devastated by epidemics. As a result, local people in Acre successfully fought have the project suspended. More recently, as a result of Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) funding of local welfare and environmental protection, they have become more favourable to bei linked by roads to the rest of Brazil, and more optimistic that t can prevent a repetition of the Rondonia catastrophe. Although t still have some reservations, they now see possible opportunities improving the road that they previously opposed. However, they d seem to have realised that there are plans to extend the road, an build another road, to cross the Andes to the Pacific coast, thus linking Brazil's forests and farmlands to the wealthy Japanese ma These projects could have additional harmful, even dangerous, eff

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  ECOSYSTEMS LTD

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  ECOSYSTEMS LTD

  RED COMPUTING, 29A HIGH STREET
  NEW MALDEN, SURREY  United Kingdom  KT3 4BY
• Authors:
  • SHANKLAND, A
• Publication Date: 1919

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 141-7
• Serial:
  • ECOLOGIST
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: ECOSYSTEMS LTD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Environment; Indigenous peoples; Loss and damage; Networks; Planning; Roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Brazil
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00643349
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Created Date: Mar 10 2000 12:00AM