| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 925 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
International hydrology series
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International hydrology series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Symposium and Workshop; Introduction; Part I: Current trends and perspectives on people-land use-water issues; 1 Trends and patterns of tropical land use change; 2 The myth of efficiency through market economics: a biophysical analysis of tropical economies, especially with respect to energy, forests and water; 3 Impacts of land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon from a resource manager's perspective; 4 Forest people and changing tropical forestland use in tropical Asia. |
| Summary |
This volume is the most comprehensive review available of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them. It will be invaluable for specialists, managers and practitioners, scientists and advanced students. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forest hydrology -- Tropics.
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Forest hydrology. |
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Tropics. |
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Natural resources -- Tropics -- Management.
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Natural resources. |
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Management. |
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Human ecology -- Tropics.
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Human ecology. |
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Rain forests.
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Rain forests. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bonell, Michael.
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Bruijnzeel, Leendert Adriaan.
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Unesco.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forests, water, and people in the humid Tropics. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521829534 (DLC) 2003069746 (OCoLC)54001513 |
| ISBN |
0511109725 (electronic book) |
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9780511109720 (electronic book) |
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0511109415 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511109416 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511108796 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511108792 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511535666 (ebook) |
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051153566X (ebook) |
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1280415509 |
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9781280415500 |
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0521829534 |
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