While many studies of tropical deforestation neglect the indigenous people of the forests, Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension illuminates the insights local people have into conservation of their ecosystems, the effects of habitation on those ecosystems, and the impact of development and natural resource depletion on their lives. The authors present fresh perspectives on the major global crisis of deforestation from a wide range of fields including biological ecology, forest history, conservation biology, anthropology, political economy, and development economics. Tropical…
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Other · English · 1996
Columbia University Press · 365 pages · 9780231103183
