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Mellon seminar tours a changing, urbanized Amazon

5/26/2016 by : Rebecca Bowes , Cornell Chronicle

A 10-day journey to cities in the Brazilian rainforest gave students a firsthand look at the complex conditions of urbanization in the Amazon. The field trip in March, part of the spring seminar Forest Cartographies, focused on issues of community, housing, resettlement, deforestation, political ecology, anthropology and archaeology.