Natural Resources in Tropical Countries
Author: Jin-Bee Ooi
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9789971690632
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Author: Jin-Bee Ooi
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9789971690632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. J. Jepma
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 131797171X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged. Yet deforestation continues apace, and in some areas (for example, southeast Asia) the very existence of the forests is seriously threatened. Contrary to popular belief, evidence suggests that local economic and living conditions are more significant in this than timber exploitation for exports to the Northern countries. Tropical Deforestation - A Socio-Economic Approach offers a new perspective on the economic imperatives which encourage indigenous populations to encroach upon their own forests, and shows how action against deforestation must form part of a wider movement to improve both the living conditions of the local inhabitants and the durability of their national economies. Part 1 offers an overview of the processes surrounding deforestation, and an assessment of the current situation. Part 2 analyses the land-use issues, and explains the socioeconomic imperatives in the affected regions. In an absorbing conclusion. Part 3 guides the reader through a series of hypothetical policy scenarios, using a specially adapted economic computer model, to predict which combinations of policies and trade arrangements might bring about a more beneficial state of affairs.
Author: Claude Martin
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 177164141X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world’s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research and technological advances have greatly increased our knowledge of how rainforests are being affected by changing patterns of resource use. Increasing concern about climate change has made it more important than ever to understand the state of the world’s tropical forests. This book provides an up-to-date picture of the health of the world’s tropical forests. Claude Martin, an eminent scientist and conservationist, integrates information from remote imaging, ecology, and economics to explain deforestation and forest health throughout the world. He explains how urbanization, an increasingly global economy, and a worldwide demand for biofuels put new pressure on rainforest land. He examines the policies and market forces that have successfully preserved forests in some areas and discusses the economic benefits of protected areas. Using evidence from ice core records and past forest cover patterns, he predicts the most likely effects of climate change. Claude Martin brings his wealth of experience as an ecologist, director of the WWF, and advistor to various conservation organizations to bear on the latest research from around the world. Contributions from eight leading experts provide additional insight.
Author: Edward Barbier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521706513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive analysis of natural resource use and economic development in poor countries, first published in 2005.
Author: Ian A. Bowles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0198029063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades. These industries and their infrastructure, including roads and power lines, have a tremendous impact on the environment and often conflict with the growing concern for conservation, particularly the conservation of tropical biodiversity. However, development in the tropics is extremely important economically, both for developing and industrialized nations, and Footprints in the Jungle is an invaluable reference in this important and highly politicized debate. This volume looks at new approaches that lessen the impact of development. It collects numerous case studies by project managers, advocates, and researchers from major international companies, development agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations. It also examines the environmental and social impact of resource development, proposes a rigorous "best practices" approach, and analyzes a number of challenging technical, environmental, social, and legal issues.
Author: Alan Grainger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1134064497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical 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
Author: N. Myers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9401736081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical forests affect climate, and the removal of the forests will change climate. Or not? This book discusses basic questions on how far, if at all, tropical deforestation leads to climatic change. The question of this uncertainty is particularly addressed. One important consequence of the uncertainties of whether deforestation affects climate is how scientific findings best illuminate the policy-making process.
Author: Unesco
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1428923802
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