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Vocabulaire du défrichement dans la toponymie wallonne
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Genève : Droz,

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Le recul de la foret au Viet Nam
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ISBN: 1282054988 9786612054983 1552503852 9781552503850 0889368457 9780889368453 9781282054981 6612054980 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ottawa : Centre de recherches pour le developpement international,

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With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
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ISBN: 0585130485 0520919084 9780520919082 9780585130484 9780520208865 0520208862 0520208862 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants.Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s-through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century.Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.

Shadows in the forest : Japan and the politics of timber in Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 0262271222 0585337888 9780585337883 9780262271226 026204160X 0262540878 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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