Changing Landscapes
Subtitle: The Development of the International Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781853839900
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Forestry & related industries; Management of land & natural resources; Tropics; Nature; Forest management; Environmental Studies; Trees & Forests - Rainforests; Nature/Ecology; Trees & Forests - General; Agriculture - Forestry; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Trees; International Tropical Timber; International Tropical Timber Organization; Sustainable forestry
First sentence: It may seem rather perverse to begin a book about forests and trade in this century with a flashback to the descent of the precursors of our species from the trees some 4 million years ago; but it is far from irrelevant.