Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Wildland Conservation in Central America
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Wildlands Conservation in Central America
Author: Gary S. HartshornPublisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Rewilding North America
Author: Dave ForemanPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution. Foreman begins by setting out the specific evidence that a mass extinction is happening and analyzes how humans are causing it. Adapting Aldo Leopold's idea of ecological wounds, he details human impacts on species survival in seven categories, including direct killing, habitat loss and fragmentation, exotic species, and climate change. Foreman describes recent discoveries in conservation biology that call for wildlands networks instead of isolated protected areas, and, reviewing the history of protected areas, shows how wildlands networks are a logical next step for the conservation movement. The final section describes specific approaches for designing such networks (based on the work of the Wildlands Project, an organization Foreman helped to found) and offers concrete and workable reforms for establishing them. The author closes with an inspiring and empowering call to action for scientists and activists alike. Rewilding North America offers both a vision and a strategy for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the North American continent, and is an essential guidebook for anyone concerned with the future of life on earth.
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica
Author: Gordon W. FrankiePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520241037
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Annotation A collection of papers regarding the conservation of Costa Rica's tropical dry forest, which is disappearing more rapidly than its rain forest, due to ease of conversion to agriculture.
Exploited Earth
Author: Teresa HayterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134070586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and practice, paying particular attention to its effects on the worlds forests. In this book she describes the history of the different forms of aid and their effects. On behalf of one of the West's most effective environmental lobbies, Exploited Earth show how and why British aid needs to change. Originally published in 1989
Tropical Rainforest Research — Current Issues
Author: D.S. EdwardsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940091685X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Proceedings of the conference held in Bandar Seri Begawan, April 1993
Report on Natural Resources for Food and Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251025123
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Green Encounters
Author: Luis Antonio VivancoPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845455045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represents an ideal case study to examine the socio-cultural and political complexities and dilemmas of practicing environmentalism in rural Costa Rica. Based on many years of close observation, this book offers rich and original material on the ongoing struggles between environmental activists and of collective and oppositional politics to Monte Verde's new "culture of nature."
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