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La Frontera Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory /

In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry ""miracle"" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klubock, Thomas Miller
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Radical perspectives.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry ""miracle"" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth century when Chilean governments turned to forestry science and plantations of the North American Monterey pine to establish their governance of the frontier's natural and social worlds. Klubock demonstrates that modern conservationist policies.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 385 pages :) illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-372) and index.
ISBN:9780822376569
0822376563