Description |
xv, 206 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
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Earthscan original |
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Earthscan original.
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Contents |
PART I: DEFORESTATION AND UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 1. Central America: ecological and socio-economic characteristics [Deforestation and environmental degradation] -- 2. Causes of deforestation: the processes and players involved [Deforestation and agro-export development -- Agrarian frontier colonization -- The cattle boom -- Logging -- The expansion of export crops -- Infrastructural development -- Fuelwood and urbanization] -- 3. Structural and policy determinants of deforestation [Agrarian structure and land tenure -- Government policy and legislation -- Deforestation in the 1980s and 1990s: war, agrarian reform, recession, and adjustment] -- PART II: THE BREAKDOWN OF TRADITIONAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS -- Overview -- 4. Deforestation 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. Deforestation and livelihood in Guatemala's western highlands [The land tenure system and the demise of communal protection mechanisms -- The crisis of petty commodity production and subsistence provisioning] -- 6. Deforestation and shifting peasant agriculture [Deforestation and land colonization in Panama -- Migratory agriculture in Nicaragua] -- PART III: FOREST PROTECTION AND TREE PLANTING INITIATIVES -- Overview -- 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] -- 9. The project approach: reforestation, sustainable logging, agroforestry, and social forestry schemes [Reforestation -- 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 Totonicapan, Guatemala -- The Honduran social forestry system] -- 11. Alternative approaches: revolutionary change and grassroots mobilization [Radical structural change: agrarian reform and human resettlement in Rio San Juan, Nicaragua -- Grassroots 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 |
Analysis |
Central America |
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Forests Exploitation |
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Central America |
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Forests Exploitation |
Notes |
"An Earthscan original"--P. [4] of cover |
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Published in association with The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-192) and index |
Subject |
Deforestation -- Control -- Central America.
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Deforestation -- Economic aspects -- Central America.
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Deforestation -- Environmental aspects -- Central America.
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Deforestation -- Social aspects -- Central America.
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Deforestation -- Central America.
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Forest conservation -- 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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Rain forest conservation -- Central America.
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Author |
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
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LC no. |
94130002 |
ISBN |
185383162X (paperback) |
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