Integrated Land Change Science Tropical Deforestation in Southern - Final Frontiers

Klappentext This highly topical study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives committed to various international programmes of forest preservation and complementaryeconomic programmes. Zusammenfassung This study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives.

Summary

This study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives.

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• Authors: B. L. Geoghegan Turner, B.l. Geoghegan Turner, TURNER B GEOGHEGAN JACQUELINE, B. L. (Higgins Professor of Environment Turner II
• Assisted by: David R. Foster (Editor), David R. (Director of the Harvard Forest Foster (Editor), Foster David R. (Editor), Jacqueline Geoghegan (Editor), Jacqueline (Assistant Professor Geoghegan (Editor), Geoghegan Jacqueline (Editor), B. L. Turner (Editor), B. L. Turner II (Editor), B. L. (Higgins Professor of Environment & Society Turner II (Editor), B.l. Turner II (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780199245307
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924530-7
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies; Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies; Clarendon Lectures in Geograph
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Mexico, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Environmental Economics, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Deforestation, Forests, rainforests, Forests and woodland