Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Forest Production for Tropical America
Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Why Forests? Why Now?
Author: Frances SeymourPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 1933286865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.
Timbers of Tropical America
Author: Samuel James RecordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The countries and their forests. The trees and their woods.
Management and Conservation of Closed Forests in Tropical America
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251031476
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Technologies to Sustain Tropical Forest Resources
Author: The World's Tropical Forests
Author: U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical ForestsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas
Author: Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466512008
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Under threat from natural and human disturbance, tropical dry forests are the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics, yet they rarely receive the scientific or conservation attention they deserve. In a comprehensive overview, Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and Management examines new approaches for data sampling and analysis using remote sensing technology, discusses new ecological and econometric methods, and critically evaluates the socio-economic pressures that these forest are facing at the continental and national levels. The book includes studies from Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil that provide in-depth knowledge about the function, status, and conservation efforts of these endangered forests. It presents key elements of synthesis from standardized work conducted across all sites. This unique contribution provides new light in terms of these forests compared to each other not only from an ecological perspective but also in terms of the pressures that they are facing, and their respective responses. Written by experts from a diversity of fields, this reference brings together the many facets of function, use, heritage, and future potential of these forests. It presents an important and exciting synthesis of many years of work across countries, disciplines, and cultures. By standardizing approaches for data sampling and analysis, the book gives readers comparison information that cannot be found anywhere else given the high level of disparity that exists in the current literature.
Changing Tropical Forests
Author: Harold K. SteenPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Changing Tropical Forests begins with an overview of the history of deforestation in tropical America and the tasks facing Latin American environmental historians. Based on proceedings of a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group in Costa Rica, the contributors offer detailed accounts of the enivornmental history of specific forest conditions, grasslands, and changing ecosystems of Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, and Brazil. the role of human intervention in this process of change is also discussed. Contributors. William Balée, James R. Barborak, Peter Boomgaard, Larissa V. Brown, Gerardo Budowski, John Dargavel, Warren Dean, Silvia del Amo R., Elizabeth Graham, J. Régis Guillaumon, Rhena Hoffmann, Sally P. Horn, Sebastião Kengen, Herman W. Konrad, Mary Pamela Lehmann, Robert D. Leier, Murdo J. MacLeod, M. Patricia Marchak, Elinor G. K. Melville, David M. Pendergast, Susan M. Pierce, Leslie E. Sponsel, Richard P. Tucker, Terry West