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Title:

Tropical rainforests : Latin American nature and society in transition / Susan E. Place, editor.

Edition:

Rev. and updated ed.

Publisher:

Scholarly Resources,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xviii, 244 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Rain forests--Latin America.
Rain forests--Economic aspects--Latin America.
Rain forest ecology--Latin America.
Rain forest conservation--Latin America.
Deforestation--Latin America.

Other Authors:

Place, Susan E., 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Spring, summer, and autumn in one tropical day / Henry Walter Bates -- A spider web or a house of cards? / John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto -- The champion of destruction / José Eustasio Rivera -- Environmental limitations on culture in the tropical forest / Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans -- Civilization and its discontents / Katherine Milton -- A well-adapted life / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The death of the Cuban forests / Manuel Morendo Fraginals -- The history of ecological marginalization in Chiapas / Philip Howard -- Rejecting progress in paradise: huastecs, the environment, and the oil industry in Veracruz, Mexico, 1900-1935 / Mryna Santiago -- Revolution in the rainforest / Daniel Faber -- Who is destroying the Amazon rainforest? / José A. Lutzenberger -- Deforestation: a Brazilian perspective / Tadeu Valadares -- A glimpse at some tropical habitats / John Terborgh -- Natural resource losses reduce Costa Rican GNP gains / David R. Francis -- A cornucopia of foods / Norman Myers -- An earthly paradise regained / Mark Plotkin -- Mexico's highway to hell / Wendy Call -- Fight for the forest: building bridges / Chico Mendes -- Alternatives to forest destruction: lessons from the Mêbêngôkre Indians / Darrel A. Posey -- U.S. drug firm signs up to farm tropical forests / William Booth -- Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity / A. B. Cunningham -- Alternative rainforest uses / John O. Browder -- Debt-for-nature swaps: who really benefits? / Rhona Mahoney -- Reefs, rainforests, caves, ruins, and rookeries / David Rains Wallace -- Ecotourism and the political ecology of "sustainable development" in Costa Rica / Susan E. Place -- Petén crafts a future / Kathyrn Stafford.

Series:

Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 2

ISBN:

9780842029087 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0842029087 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45356945

LCCN:

00066107

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)