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Price: $93.95
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: UBC Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: UBC Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.751370913
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Publication Date: 1994-09
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Reading Level: 338
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Price: $190.00
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Sale: $160.99
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Peter Furley
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7513098114
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Publication Date: 1994-02-07
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Reading Level: 235
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Description: Destructive patterns of Amazonian evolution are now endangering Northern Brazil--driven by the gold rush and demographic and economic forces from the South. The Forest Frontier assesses whether the Northern Amazonian states can avoid the same pressures and problems that affect the peoples and environments of the South.
Relatively untouched but on the brink of development, Roraima is of special environmental interest because of its extensive savannas and varied forests--the home of some of the largest and most diverse groups of indigenous Indians. In a detailed and original analysis, the contributors present a critical assessment of the nature and pace of agricultural advance into Roraima, provide precise rates for deforestation and examine the reasons for destruction. The book presents a range of strategies to cope with the inevitable development to come.
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Solon Lovett Barraclough::Krishnab Ghimire
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.75137091724
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Publication Date: 1995-10
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Reading Level: 259
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Manufacturer: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Torsten Amelung::Markus Diehl
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Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Publication Date: 1992-09
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.28
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Publication Date: 1996-04-15
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: While many studies of tropical deforestation neglect the indigenous people of the forests, this book 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 deforestation from a wide range of fields including biological ecology, forest history, conservation biology, anthropology, political economy, and development economics. The book covers Central and South America, Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lykke E. Andersen::Clive W. J. Granger::Eustaquio J. Reis::Diana Weinhold::Sven Wunder
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.751370981
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Publication Date: 2003-01-27
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Presenting an economic perspective of deforestation in the Brazilan Amazon, this study utilizes economic and ecological data from 1970 to 1996. It examines the extent to which land clearing promotes economic activity and growth and analyzes policies such as road building and subsidized credit. It explores whether the economic benefits of land clearing surpass the ecological costs and considers the viability of extractivism as an alternative to deforestation.
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Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Publication Date: 1996-03-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $18.75
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David M. Kummer
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7513709599
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Publication Date: 1992-06-01
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Reading Level: 201
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Description: The only quantitative deforestation study to focus on one country, this case analysis of the Philippines since 1946 yields more concrete data than previous cross-national studies. David Kummer's close examination of the interactions among political, economic, and cultural factors and their environmental consequences sheds light on similar situations in other countries.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $59.13
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Manufacturer: UBC Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard A. Rajala
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Publisher: UBC Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.1749809711
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: "Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest" integrates class, environmental and political issues to provide a unique perspective on the controversy surrounding clearcutting and other forest practices. By examining the changes that took place in logging as a result of technological and managerial innovation as well as regulatory initiatives, Richard A. Rajala argues that the development of forest practice served corporate rather than social or ecological ends. Rajala first looks at the technological and managerial structures of workers and resource exploitation. From the introduction of steam-powered overhead logging methods in 1930 to the complete mechanization of logging in the postwar period, innovation was driven by a concept of industrial efficiency that responded to changing environmental conditions, product and labour markets but at the same time sought to advance operators' class interests by routinizing production. The managerial component developed pargely following the expansion of logging engineering programmes in the region's universities. Graduates of these programmes introduced rational planning procedures to coastal logging, which contributed to a rate of deforestation and resulted in a corporate call for technical forestry expertise. The second part of the study examines clearcutting from ecological, scientific and political history perspectives. Rajala looks at the factory regime's impact on the ecology of Douglas-fir forests and assesses what role knowledge played in the regulation of cutting practices. His analysis of businss-government relations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that the reliance on the revenues generated by the forest industry encouraged regulations that favoured the forestry companies.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $102.78
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Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tariq Banuri::Frederique Apffel Marglin
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Publisher: Zed Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7516
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Publication Date: 1993-05-15
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Reading Level: 208
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