Tropical deforestation
Subtitle: the human dimension
By: edited by Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey ; with a foreword by Jeffrey A. McNeely.
Contributors: Sponsel, Leslie E. 1943-; Headland, Thomas N.; Bailey, Robert Converse.
Series: Methods and cases in conservation science; Biology and resource management in the tropics; Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Deforestation -- Social aspects -- Tropics.; Forest ecology -- Tropics.; Forest management -- Tropics.; Forests and forestry -- Tropics.
Description: While many studies of tropical deforestation neglect the indigenous people of the forests, Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension illuminates the insights local people have into conservation of their ecosystems, the effects of habitation on those ecosystems, and the impact of development and natural resource depletion on their lives.

The authors present fresh perspectives on the major global crisis of deforestation from a wide range of fields including biological ecology, forest history, conservation biology, anthropology, political economy, and development economics.

Tropical Deforestation, enriched with more than fifty photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with a comprehensive bibliography, includes coverage of Central and South America, Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Indian subcontinent.

Considering the effects of natural resource use in prehistory and colonial history and the rapid ecosystem depletion occuring today, investigating new technologies and efforts to involve indigenous people in conservation and development, the book presents an excellent overview of the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to deforestation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.