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Title:

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

Publisher:

Scholarly Resources,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xxi, 229 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Place, Susan E., 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

A cornucopia of foods / Norman Myers -- The healing forest / Mark Plotkin -- Alternatives to forest destruction: Lessons from the Mêbêngôkre Indians / Darrell A. Posey -- Colonization lessons from a tropical forest / Nigel J. H. Smith -- Fight for the forest: Building bridges / Chico Mendes -- Guardians of the forest: Indigenist policies in the Colombian Amazon / Peter Bunyard -- Demystifying the tragedy of the commons: The resin tappers of Honduras / Denise Stanley -- Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity / A. B. Cunningham -- Debt-for-nature swaps: Who really benefits? / Rhona Mahony -- Protected areas in tropical rainforests: Five lessons / James D. Nations -- Alternative rainforest uses / John O. Browder -- Peru's rainforest: The kindest cut / Kathryn Philips -- U.S. drug firm signs up to farm tropical forests / William Booth -- Tourism damages Amazon region / Ty Harrington -- How a monkey saved the jungle / Michael Lipske.
Green mansions [excerpts] / William H. Hudson -- The vortex [excerpt] / José Eustasio Rivera -- The naturalist on the river Amazons [excerpts] / Henry Walter Bates -- Environmental limitations on culture in the tropical forest / Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans -- Civilization and its discontents / Katherine Milton -- The whys and wherefores of deforestation / John Terborgh -- The scourge of cows / James J. Parsons -- Transnationals and oil in Amazonia / Koy Thomson and Nigel Dudley -- The militarization and industrialization of Amazonia: The Calha Norte and Grande Carajás Programs / Dave Treece -- Central America: Political ecology and U.S. foreign policy / Joshua Karliner -- Who is destroying the Amazon rainforest? [excerpt] / José A. Lutzenberger -- Deforestation: A Brazilian perspective -- Tadeu Valadares -- Tropical forests: A plan for action / The Ecologist -- A glimpse at some tropical habitats / John Terborgh -- Natural-resource losses reduce Costa Rican GNP gains / David R. Francis.

Series:

Jaguar books on Latin America ; 2

ISBN:

9780918303356
0918303354
9780842024273 (pbk.)
0842024271 (pbk.)
9780842024235
0842024239
9780516011981
0516011987

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28063699

LCCN:

93004335

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

GIPC251 -- De Soto Public Library (De Soto)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

XEPE697 -- Red Oak Public Library (Red Oak) — J574.5 Ham

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)