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1 online resource |
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Natural Resource Management Set |
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Natural Resource Management Set
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Deforestatìon and unsustainable development; 1. Central America: Ecologìcal and socio-economìe characteristics; Deforestatìon and environmental degradation; 2. Causes of deforestation:The processes and players involved; Deforestatìon and agro-export development; Agrarian frontier colonization; The catde boom; Logging; The expansion of export crops; Infrastructural development; Fuelwood and urbanization; 3. Structural and policy determinants of deforestatìon |
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Agrarian structure and land tenureGovernment poHcy and legislation; Deforestatìon in the 1980s and 1990s: War, agrarian reform, recession and adjustment; Part II The breakdown of traditional resource management systems; 4. Deforestatìon and Indian populations; Central America's Indian population; State policy and Indian rights; Encroachment in tropical rainforest areas; Indians, graziers and colonization in Costa Rica; Indians and logging companies in Nicaragua; 5. Deforestatìon and livelihood in Guatemala's western highlands |
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The land tenure system and the demise of communal protection mechanismsThe crisis of petty commodity production and subsistence provisioning; 6. Deforestation and shifting peasant agrìculture; Deforestation and land colonization in Panama; Migratory agriculture in Nicaragua; Part III Foresl protection and tree planting initiatìves; 7. The conservationist approach: National parks and reserves; Protected area schemes; 8. Protected area schemes and social conflict in Costa Rica; Two case studies: The Carara biological reserve and the; Osa Peninsula |
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9. The project approach: Reforestation, sustainable logging, agroforestry and social forestry schemesReforestation; Sustainable forest management; Agroforestry and social forestry schemes; 10. Programme and project implementation: Concrete experiences from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras; Community nurseries programme in El Salvador Reforestation and agroforestry projects in Totonicapán, Guatemala; The Honduran social forestry system; 11. Alternative approaches: Revolutionary change and grassroots mobilization |
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Radical structural change: Agrarian reform and human resetdement in Río San Juan, NicaraguaGrassroots mobilization; Deforestation and forest protection in Huehuetenango, Guatemala; 12. Social and political dimensions of forest protection; Social and political economy concerns; External interventions; Social forces and local level structures; Grassroots organization and mobilization; Annex 1 Case studies, theme papers and researchers; Notes; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor. Until the social and political dimensions of deforestation and forest protection schemes are understood, measures to prevent or slow deforestation are likely to involve technical interventions which will prove ineffective in the long run, and may well re |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Earthscan Publications, 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Deforestation -- Central America
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Forest protection -- Central America
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Forests and forestry -- Social aspects -- Central America
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Deforestation
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Forest protection
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Forests and forestry -- Social aspects
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Central America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134065264 |
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1134065264 |
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9781315066905 |
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1315066904 |
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