The Fragile tropics of Latin America
Subtitle: sustainable management of changing environments
By: edited by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto.
Contributors: Nishizawa, Toshie, 1929-; Uitto, Juha I.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Latin America.; Ecology -- Latin America.; Ecology -- Tropics.
Description: "Amazonia and adjacent lands have tremendous environmental variations, and approaches to the sustainable management of these fragile lands must be different. Geographers Hiraoka, Nishizawa, Sternberg, and Yagasaki have important contributions among the 14 articles"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The ecological outlook: Ecological prospective for tropical Latin America / Gilberto C. Gallopín and Manuel Winograd. Rich and poor ecosystems of Amazonia : an approach to management / Emilio F. Moran. Archaeological perspectives on the potential of Amazonia for intensive exploitation / Betty J. Meggers. Distribution and interannual variability of rainfall in Brazil / Minoru Tanaka, Akio Tsuchiya, and Toshie Nishizawa; title: pt. 2. The Brazilian Amazon: Waters and wetlands of Brazilian Amazonia : an uncertain future / Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg. A fragile capitalism in a fragile environment : entrepreneurs and state bureaucracies in the free zone of Manaus / Roberto Motta; title: pt. 3. The Peruvian Amazon: Aquatic and land fauna management among the floodplain ribereños of the Peruvian Amazon /  Mario Hiraoka. Subsistence-and market-oriented agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon / Christine Padoch and Wil de Jong. Local management of forest resources in a rural community in north-east Peru / Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Daniel Zarin and Peter Jipp; title: pt. 4. The semi-arid North-East: White sand soils in North-East Brazil / Eiji Matsumoto. Changing aspects of drought-deciduous vegetation in the semi-arid region of North-East Brazil / Ichiroku Hayashi. Characteristics and utilization of tree species in the semi-arid woodland of North-East Brazil / Toshie Nishizawa, Akio Tsuchiya and Maria Magdalena Vieira Pinto. Drought, irrigation, and changes in the sertão of North-East Brazil / Isao Saito and Noritaka Yagasaki.