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Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit
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ISBN: 1282762567 9786612762567 0520936078 9780520936072 0520217993 0520230892 9780520217997 Year: 2001 Publisher: CA University of California Press

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Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals. In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland. This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.


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Koedoe: tydskrif vir wetenskaplike navorsing in die Nasionale Parke van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika
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ISSN: 00756458 20710771 Publisher: Pretoria

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Publishes original papers on the perpetuation of wildlife and the conservation of biological and associated natural resources. It is also concerned with the diversity of fauna and flora and their habitats encountered in Southern Africa and with the everchanging effects of man on a fragile, sensitive and evolving biosphere. 1 vol. (2 issues) / year

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Zoology --- Zoologie --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Animals --- Nationale parken. --- Animals. --- South Africa. --- Life Sciences --- Republic of South Africa ( RSA ) --- Southern Africa --- biosphere --- current periodical --- diversity --- fauna --- flora --- human impact --- national parks --- natural resources --- nature conservation --- semi-yearly --- e-journal --- Périodiques --- DOAJ-E EJBIOLO EJETUDE EPUB-ALPHA-K EPUB-PER-FT --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Afrika Selatan --- Azania --- Derom Afriḳah --- Dorem-Afriḳe --- Iriphabhuliki Yaseningizimu Afrika --- I︠U︡.A.R. --- I︠U︡AR --- I︠U︡zhno-Afrikanskai︠a︡ Respublika --- I︠U︡zhno-Afrikanskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Južnoafrički savez --- Republic of South Africa --- República da Africa do Sul --- Republika Południowej Afryki --- RSA --- Sud Africa --- Sudafrica --- Suid-Afrika --- Unie van Suid-Afrika --- Union of South Africa --- ZAR --- conservation --- protected areas --- resource management --- policy --- zoology --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Biodiversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Conservation --- I͡UAR --- Nanfei --- I͡U.A.R. --- I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskai͡a Respublika --- I͡Uzhno-Afrikanskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Nan Fei --- Conservation of natural resources. --- Biodiversity. --- Africa. --- Eastern Hemisphere --- África del Sur --- África do Sul --- Afrique du Sud --- Dél-Afrika --- Dél-Afrikai Köztársaság --- Güney Afrika --- Güney Afrika Cumhuriyeti --- iRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika --- iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika --- iRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika --- iRiphabliki yomZantsi Afrika --- Janūb Ifrīqiy --- Jihoafrická republika --- Juhoafrická republika --- Jumhūrīyat Janūb Ifrīqiy --- Južná Afrika --- Minami Afurika Kyōwakoku --- Nan Fei Gongheguo --- Nanfei Gongheguo --- Repabliki ya Afrika-Borwa --- Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa --- Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa --- Repubblica del Sud Africa --- República da África do Sul --- República de Sudáfrica --- Republiek van Suid-Afrika --- Republik Südafrika --- Republik Suedafrika --- République Sud Africaine --- Riphabliki ya Afrika Dzonga --- Riphabul̳iki ya Afurika Tshipembe --- Sud África --- Sudáfrica --- Südafrika --- South Africa --- Africa --- General ecology and biosociology --- Zoology.

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