Breakfast of biodiversity : the truth about rain forest destruction

Breakfast of biodiversity : the truth about rain forest destruction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vandermeer, John H.
Other Authors: Perfecto, Ivette
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, ©1995.
Subjects:
Rain forest conservation.
Rain forest ecology.
Banana trade > Environmental aspects > Costa Rica.
Deforestation > Environmental aspects > Tropics.
Agricultural ecology > Tropics.
Forest biodiversity conservation > Tropics.
Forêts pluviales > Conservation.
Écologie des forêts pluviales.
Banane > Commerce > Aspect de l'environnement > Costa Rica.
Déboisement > Aspect de l'environnement > Régions tropicales.
Écologie agricole > Régions tropicales.
Biodiversité forestière > Conservation > Régions tropicales.
Agricultural ecology.
Banana trade > Environmental aspects.
Deforestation > Environmental aspects.
Forest biodiversity conservation.
Forests.
Environmental protection.
Biodiversity.
Agriculture.
Costa Rica.
Tropics.
Table of Contents:
  • Slicing up the rain forest on your breakfast cereal
  • The rain forest is neither fragile nor stable
  • Farming on rain forest soils
  • The political economy of agriculture in rain forest areas
  • The multiple faces of agriculture in the modern world system
  • The political ecology of logging and related activities
  • Rain forest conservation: the direct or indirect approach?
  • Biodiversity, agriculture, and rain forests
  • Who constructs the rain forest?
  • Past causes, future models, present action.

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