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Hardcover – September 27, 2002
by Charles H. Wood (Editor), Roberto Porro (Editor)
“This volume has the strength of bringing together a diverse set of disciplines not just to juxtapose different approaches to the long-standing pattern/process relationship (which so much of the literature does) but to cut across the thorny attributes of spatial and temporal scale, which so often divide remote-sensors from social scientists.”–Lowell Pritchard, Jr., Emory University
The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world’s remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. <i>Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon</i> is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national, and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region.
The leading scholars and specialists in this volume, from both Latin America and the United States, present a uniquely interdisciplinary study of the historical, economic, and political causes accounting for the pace and pattern of the area’s deforestation. Their collected research provides a highly instructive sampler of the best and most useful approaches to land use and deforestation across the broad range of disciplines, agencies, and orientations involved, from the long-term impact of road construction projects, colonization schemes, and commodity prices to immediate concerns over quality of life, water availability, and climate variation.
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1st ed. 2020 Edition
Kindle Edition
by F.Q. Brearley (Author, Editor), A.D. Thomas (Author, Editor) Format: Kindle Edition'
This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific. The effects of land use change on various aspects of the soil ecosystem from both a chemical and biological perspective will be examined.
First Edition
by National Research Council (Author), Board on Science and Technology for International Development (Author), Board on Agriculture (Author), Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (Author)
Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources will be seriously depleted within the next 50 years.Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics provides critically needed direction for developing strategies that both mitigate land degradation, deforestation, and biological resource losses and help the economic status of tropical countries through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base.Recommendations for developing technologies needed for sustainable agriculture.A strategy for changing policies that discourage conserving and managing natural resources and biodiversity.Detailed reports on agriculture and deforestation in seven tropical countries.
Paperback – January 1, 1955
by Harley H. Bartlett (Author)
Kindle Edition
1st Edition
by R. Toby Pennington (Editor), James A. Ratter (Editor)
More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, when they imagine a savanna, they visualize the African plains, rather than those dry woodlands and grasslands found in the Neotropics. These same preconceptions can be found among scientists, as these neotropical biomes receive nowhere near the attention they should - in terms of both research and conservation -considering the amount of land they encompass and the diversity of vegetation they contain. Neotropical Savannas and Dry Forests: Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation provides an engaging synthesis of information on the plant diversity and geography, as well as the conservation status, of these species-rich areas. This impressive compilation is the result of a plant diversity symposium that took place during an international conference on tropical savannas and seasonally dry forests held in 2003. Fifty leading scientists, representing a variety of disciplines have contributed to the chapters of this book in an effort to address three questions:
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