Author: Mirjam Amaranta Fiametta Ros-Tonen
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Category : Brasilien
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Tropical Hardwood from the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Mirjam Amaranta Fiametta Ros-Tonen
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Category : Brasilien
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Brasilien
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Lessons from Amazonia
Author: Richard O. Bierregaard
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300127492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300127492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
Proceedings of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress: (section III) Conservation of natural resources. G. M. Rommel, chairman
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Author: Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761815228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development, coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761815228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development, coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Proceedings of the second Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916 1915- 1916 v. 3
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Decentralized Development in Latin America
Author: Paul Lindert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 904813739X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Much of the scholarly and professional literature on development focuses either on the ‘macro’ level of national policies and politics or on the ‘micro’ level of devel- ment projects and household or community socio-economic dynamics. By contrast, this collection pitches itself at the ‘meso’ level with a comparative exploration of the ways in which local institutions – municipalities, local governments, city authorities, civil society networks and others – have demanded, and taken on, a greater role in planning and managing development in the Latin American region. The book’s rich empirical studies reveal that local institutions have engaged upwards, with central authorities, to shape their policy and resource environments and in turn, been pressured from ‘below’ by local actors contesting the ways in which the structures and processes of local governance are framed. The examples covered in this volume range from global cities, such as Mexico and Santiago, to remote rural areas of the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon. As a result the book provides a deep understanding of the diversity and complexity of local governance and local development in Latin America, while avoiding the stereotyped claims about the impact of globalisation or the potential benefits of decentralisation, as frequently stated in less empirically grounded analysis.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 904813739X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Much of the scholarly and professional literature on development focuses either on the ‘macro’ level of national policies and politics or on the ‘micro’ level of devel- ment projects and household or community socio-economic dynamics. By contrast, this collection pitches itself at the ‘meso’ level with a comparative exploration of the ways in which local institutions – municipalities, local governments, city authorities, civil society networks and others – have demanded, and taken on, a greater role in planning and managing development in the Latin American region. The book’s rich empirical studies reveal that local institutions have engaged upwards, with central authorities, to shape their policy and resource environments and in turn, been pressured from ‘below’ by local actors contesting the ways in which the structures and processes of local governance are framed. The examples covered in this volume range from global cities, such as Mexico and Santiago, to remote rural areas of the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon. As a result the book provides a deep understanding of the diversity and complexity of local governance and local development in Latin America, while avoiding the stereotyped claims about the impact of globalisation or the potential benefits of decentralisation, as frequently stated in less empirically grounded analysis.
Forest Products from Latin America
Author: Robert R. Maeglin
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Category : Forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : Forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate: Chapters VII-IX
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Brazilian Bulletin
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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