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Product Description: Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses. 'At Loggerheads' seeks to describe ways to reconcile pressures for agricultural expansion in the tropics with the urgent needs for both forest conservation and poverty alleviation...read more
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9780821367353 | World Bank, November 1, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses.
Product Description: Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial "tool kit" for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of deforestation...read more
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9780742534810 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 30, 2006, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation.
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9780742534827 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 30, 2006, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation.
Product Description: In Tropical Forests, Rudel analyzes hundreds of local studies from the past twenty years to develop a much-needed, global perspective on deforestation. With separate chapters on individual regions, including South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa, Rudel's work offers an up-to-date assessment of the world's tropical forests...read more
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9780231131940 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2005, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: In Tropical Forests, Rudel analyzes hundreds of local studies from the past twenty years to develop a much-needed, global perspective on deforestation.
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9780231131957 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2005, cover price $45.00
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9789231039416 | United Nations Educational, February 28, 2005, cover price $123.50
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9780415062398 | Routledge, January 1, 1993, cover price $65.95
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9780203413463 | Routledge, September 26, 2002, cover price $55.95
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9780889368620 | Intl Development Research, January 1, 1999, cover price $17.50
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9780312213176 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 1998, cover price $185.00
Product Description: The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development...read more
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9780412815102 | Kluwer Academic Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
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9780412815201 | Kluwer Academic Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
Product Description: The depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged. Yet deforestation continues apace, and in some areas (for example, southeast Asia) the very existence of the forests is seriously threatened...read more
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9781853832383 | Routledge, April 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged.
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9780774805117 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $96.00
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9780231080446 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $130.00
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9780231080453 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $45.00
Product Description: The tropical forests are vanishing faster than ever. At one international conference after another, politicals and planners wring their hands at the world's approaching doom. Deforestation, they tell us, is caused by 'poverty', 'over-population' and 'under-development'...read more
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9781856491396 | Zed Books, July 1, 1993, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The tropical forests are vanishing faster than ever.
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9781856491402 | Zed Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $36.00
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9780891641223 | World Wildlife Fund, February 1, 1991, cover price $12.50
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9780309029452 | Natl Academy Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $13.95
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