A history of Brazilian forests - by Zé Pedro de Oliveira Costa

With testimonials from Drauzio Varella, Fernando Gabeira, Sonia Braga and Fabio Feldmann, A history of Brazilian forests has a cover signed by Sebastião Salgado and three more photos by him that illustrate everything from the daily lives of indigenous peoples to the exuberance of Brazilian forests. The destruction of forests and other forms of native vegetation in Brazil is a result of the type of development imposed since the colonization of the country, whose economic expansion is mainly due to the exploitation of natural resources. But has this supposed development brought, in the long term, economic and social advantages to the majority of the population? It is up to whoever prevents the occupation of the territory from being carried out in an increasingly aggressive way towards the environment? To answer these and other questions, Zé Pedro de Oliveira Costa presents in this book a detailed overview of the different stages of the occupation of Brazilian territory from the clearing of its original vegetation. The author was the first Secretary of the Environment of the state of São Paulo, professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and today works as a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the same institution. In addition to being one of the organizers of the Brazilian Environmental System, Zé Pedro is one of the people most responsible for creating parks and other large protected areas in the country, having achieved that many of them are now included on UNESCO's list of World Natural Heritage. In a story of Brazilian forests,