Insatiable Appetite : The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tucker, Richard P., 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ecologische aspecten.
Ontbossing.
Tropical crops > Economic aspects.
Investments, American.
Environmental degradation.
HISTORY > United States > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Environnement > Degradation > Regions tropicales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cultures tropicales > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cultures tropicales > Aspect economique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Environment
Tropical Climate
Environmental degradation > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Investments, American > Tropics > History > 20th century.
Tropical crops > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
Tropical crops > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Ontwikkelingslanden.
Verenigde Staten.
Tropics.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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