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Toponymy --- Clearing of land --- Walloon dialect --- Toponymie --- Défrichement --- Wallon (Dialecte) --- Terminology --- Lexicography. --- Terminologie --- Lexicographie
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Forests and forestry --- Deforestation --- Forêts --- Déboisement --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Exploitation --- Extinction
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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.
Deforestation --- Rain forests --- Nature --- Forestry --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Rainforests --- Tropical rain forests --- Tropical rainforests --- Forests and forestry --- Cloud forests --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- History --- Extinction --- Atlantic Coast (Brazil) --- Environmental conditions --- History of Latin America --- anno 1800-1999 --- Brazil
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Forest management --- Forest products industry --- Forest policy --- Deforestation --- Logging --- Timber --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forestry --- Environmental aspects --- Political aspects --- Forest production --- Forest harvesting --- Pulpwood --- Trees --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Forest resource policy --- Forests and forestry --- State and forestry --- Forest industries --- Forestry industry --- Wood products industry --- Wood-using industries --- Forest administration --- Forest plants --- Forest resource administration --- Forest resource management --- Forest stewardship --- Forest vegetation management --- Forestry management --- Stewardship, Forest --- Vegetation management, Forest --- Harvesting --- Government policy --- Management --- Administration --- Building materials --- Forest products --- Lumber trade --- Lumber --- Tree farms --- Wood --- Lumbering --- Forestry engineering --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Economic policy --- Plant products industry --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Extinction --- Control --- Southeast Asia --- Politics and government. --- #SBIB:35H434 --- #SBIB:35H6060 --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Azië
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