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Insatiable Appetite : The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World /
This text presents a history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a America's sweet tooth: the sugar trust and the Caribbean lowlands -- Lords of the Pacific: sugar barons in the Hawaiian and Philippine islands -- Banana republics: yankee fruit companies and the tropical American lowlands -- The last drop: the American coffee market and the hill regions of Latin America -- The tropical cost of the automotive age: corporate rubber empires and the rainforest -- The crop on hooves: yankee interests in tropical cattle ranching -- Unsustainable yield: American foresters and tropical timber resources. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This text presents a history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Ontbossing. |2 gtt |0 (NL-LeOCL)078611547 |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Investments, American. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00978314 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Environmental degradation. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00912877 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Green Business. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Environmental Economics. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a NATURE |x Natural Resources. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Environnement |x Degradation |z Regions tropicales |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Cultures tropicales |x Aspect de l'environnement |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Cultures tropicales |x Aspect economique |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Tropical crops |x Economic aspects |x History |y 20th century. | |
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