Requiem for nature /
Using Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru as a standard, the author addresses the multiple threats of civilization to the precarious state of the tropics. He "makes a compelling case that nature can be saved only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined.&qu...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©1999.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The making of a dissident
- Assessing the present
- Paradise fading
- The danger within
- Parks: the last bastions of nature
- Protecting biodiversity
- Preserving biodiversity for posterity
- Tropical forests: worth more dead than alive
- From wildlands to wasteland: land use and the mirage of sustainable development
- Why conservation in the tropics is failing: the need for a new paradigm
- Hard choices in the twenty-first century
- Nature, a global commons.