Tropical Deforestation

2006 Nature

Author : Sharon L. Spray
Release : 2006
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 827/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tropical Deforestation written by Sharon L. Spray. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial 'tool kit' for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of deforestation.

Controlling Tropical Deforestation

2013-11-05 Law

Author : Alan Grainger
Release : 2013-11-05
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Controlling Tropical Deforestation written by Alan Grainger. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving forest management in the humid tropics. In this book Alan Grainger offers afresh analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents an integrated strategy for controlling it. His strategy embraces agriculture, forestry and conservation and stresses the need for changes in government policies if land use is to be made more sustainable and the underlying causes of the problem are to be addressed. Controlling Tropical Deforestation is essential reading for policy makers, agronomists, foresters, conservationists and development professionals. To general readers and students on introductory courses at schools and universities it also offers the first concise but comprehensive overview of the causes, scale and consequences of deforestation. Alan Grainger is a lecturer in geography at the University of Leeds. He is author of The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification, also published by Earthscan. Originally published in 1992

Tropical Deforestation

1993 Nature

Author : Jin-Bee Ooi
Release : 1993
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tropical Deforestation written by Jin-Bee Ooi. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the now familiar problem of topical deforestation from an unfamiliar angle. More specifically, the author focuses on the time factor in the natural regeneration of the tropical rain forest. He examines the economics and practical implications of the very long period of time needed for such forests to regrow, and concludes that the tyranny of time makes it unlikely that the process of deforestation in the tropical rain forest countries can be halted.

Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinction

1992-04-30 Nature

Author : T.C. Whitmore
Release : 1992-04-30
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinction written by T.C. Whitmore. This book was released on 1992-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most animal and plant species inhabit tropical forests. Hence the interest in the effects of tropical forest clearance on biological diversity. The book provides a conservationist's perception of how fast tropical forests are being lost and what the consequences are for biological diversity.

Tropical Deforestation

1993 Nature

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Release : 1993
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 446/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tropical Deforestation written by Thomas K. Rudel. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

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