Based on a one day conference held at the Queen's University, Belfast, Feb. 1993. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword / Ghillean Prance -- Landscape sensitivity in the humid tropics: a geomorphological appraisal / Michael F. Thomas -- Human activity and the tropical rainforest: are the soils the forgotten component of the ecosystem? / Stephen Nortcliff -- The long-term history of human activity and rainforest development / Bernard K. Maloney -- Indigenous knowledge of the rainforest: perception, extraction and conservation / Roy F. Ellen -- History and destiny of Middle American forests: the inheritors of the Mayan landscape / Peter A. Furley -- Social, economic and political aspects of forest clearance and land-use planning in Indonesia / Alastair I. Fraser -- Diversity destroyed? The monoculture of Eucalyptus / Christopher J. Barrow -- Modelling climatic impacts of future rainforest destruction / Kenneth McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers, Huqiang Zhang.
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