Author: Sam FujisakaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Man, Agriculture and the Tropical Forest
Author: Sam FujisakaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Tropical Forests and Their Crops
Author: Nigel J. H. SmithPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717944
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops—beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts—the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.
Trees, Food, and People
Author: J. G. BenePublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Milpa Agriculture
Author: Orator Fuller CookPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Rainforest Relations
Author: Melissa LeachPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
With environmental change and conservation in West Africa's tropical rainforests becoming topics of increasing political and academic interest, this book brings a fresh set of perspectives to the debate - those of the forest dwellers themselves. Based on her detailed field research in the Mende communities around Gola North Forest reserve, and surveying the recent debates and literature concerning forest conservations and current analytical approaches to gender and the environment, Melissa Leach examines the importance of rainforest resources to the local economy and social relations and shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies can be achieved without a concern for gender.
Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers
Author: John HemmingPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719009679
Category : Amazon River Region
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Jungle
Author: Patrick RobertsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154160010X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
"A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made. To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives. Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every aspect of life on earth. They made the planet habitable, enabled the rise of dinosaurs and mammals, and spread flowering plants around the globe. New evidence also shows that humans evolved in jungles, developing agriculture and infrastructure unlike anything found elsewhere. Humanity’s fate is tied to the fate of tropical forests, and by understanding how earlier societies managed these habitats, we can learn to live more sustainably and equitably today. Blending cutting-edge research and incisive social commentary, Jungle is a bold new vision of who we are and where we come from.
Technologies to Sustain Tropical Forest Resources and Biological Diversity
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Technologies to Sustain Tropical Forest Resources
Author: Tropical Forest Ecology
Author: Florencia MontagniniPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540237976
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Importance pf tropical forests; characteristics of tropical forests; classification of tropical forests; deforestation in the tropics; management of tropical forests; plantatios and agroforestry systems; approaches for implementing sustainable management techniques.