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Conservation of natural resources --- Environmental degradation --- Conservation des ressources naturelles --- Environnement --- Dégradation --- Environmental degradation. --- 502.5/.7 --- 504.05 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 94 --- 331.068 --- 351.2 --- 355 --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen. --- Futurologie. --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling. --- Milieu --- Conservation --- Géographie et voyages scientifiques. --- Geography and scientific voyages. --- 94 Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen. --- 94 Géographie et voyages scientifiques. --- 94 Geography and scientific voyages. --- Dégradation --- Futurologie --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling --- Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen --- Écologie
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In the late 1800's American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. As corporate agro-industry emerged, the speculators took direct control of the ecological destinies of many tropical lands. Supported by the U.S. government's diplomatic and military protection, they migrated and built private empires in the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes. This book is a rich history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems. Richard P. Tucker graphically illustrates his study with six major crops, each a virtual empire in itself-sugar, bananas, coffee, rubber, beef, and timber. He concludes that as long as corporate-dominated free trade is ascendant, paying little heed to its long-term ecological consequences, the health of the tropical world is gravely endangered.
Tropical crops --- Investments, American --- Environmental degradation --- Cultures tropicales --- Investissements américains --- Environnement --- Economic aspects --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Aspect environnemental --- Dégradation --- Environmental degradation. --- Investments, American. --- Investments, American - Tropics - History - 20th century. --- Tropical crops. --- Tropical crops-- Economic aspects-- History-- 20th century. --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Investissements américains --- Aspect économique --- Dégradation --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- American investments --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- E-books --- agriculture. --- american history. --- bananas. --- beef. --- biodiversity. --- caribbean. --- central america. --- civilization. --- coffee. --- commerce. --- commodities. --- conservation. --- cultivation. --- ecology. --- environment. --- environmental history. --- environmental impact. --- environmentalism. --- forest. --- free trade. --- land speculation. --- latin american history. --- monocrops. --- nonfiction. --- pacific. --- plantations. --- rubber. --- south america. --- southeast asia. --- sugar. --- timber. --- trade. --- transnational history. --- tropical crops. --- tropical lands. --- tropical ports. --- tropics. --- west africa. --- white mans burden.
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The Congo Basin forests have been mainly ""passively"" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance. Congo Basin countries thus still fit the profile of high forest cover/ low deforestation (HFLD) countries. However, there are signs that Congo Basin forests are under increasing pressure from a variety of sources, including mineral extraction, road development, agribusiness, and biofuels, in addition to subsistence agricultural expansion and charcoal collection.Congo Basin countries are now at a crossroad - they are not yet locked into a deve
Deforestation -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Central. --- Economic development -- Africa, Central. --- Forest degradation -- Africa, Central. --- Forest protection -- Africa, Central. --- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Program). --- Deforestation --- Forest protection --- Forest degradation --- Economic development --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forestry --- Economic aspects --- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Program) --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Degradation, Forest --- Degraded forests --- Protection of forests --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) --- REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) --- UN-REDD (Program) --- United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries --- Reducción de Emisiones para Deforestación y Degradación (Program) --- Réduction des émissions liées à la déforestation et à la dégradation des forêts (Program) --- Mpango wa Kupunguza Uzalishaji wa Hewa ya Ukaa Kutokana na Ukataji na Uharibifu wa Misitu --- MKUHUMI (Mpango wa Kupunguza Uzalishaji wa Hewa ya Ukaa Kutokana na Ukataji na Uharibifu wa Misitu) --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Environmental degradation --- Forest conservation --- Forest management --- Plants, Protection of --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Control --- Extinction --- Programa ONU-REDD
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