Tropical Deforestation - Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecudorian Amazon

List of contents

The changing geography of tropical deforestation; a theory of tropical deforestation; the Ecuadorian Amazon - land, people and institutions; regional development and deforestation in Morona Santiago; trail-blazing in a large forest - the Upano-Palora Plain in the 1960s; clearing forest remnants - the Upano-Palora Plain in the 1980s; the second generation's search for new lands; tropical deforestation - an assessment with policy implications.

Summary

Using a case study of tropical deforestation in the upper reaches of the Amazon Basin, this study argues that small landholders and peasants play an active role in the destructive process only when they pool their resources or join with corporations to open up new regions for settlement.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Horowitz, Horowitz Bruce, Thomas Rudel, Thomas Horowitz Rudel, Thomas K. Rudel, Thomas K. Horowitz Rudel
• Assisted by: Robert Bailey (Editor), Thomas Headland (Editor), Leslie Sponsel (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.1993
• EAN: 9780231080446
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08044-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Methods and Cases in Conservat; Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation; Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Environmental Management, Deforestation, Forests, rainforests, Forests and woodland, Amazon River, Amazon river and tributaries