| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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UNU studies on critical environmental regions
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UNU studies on critical environmental regions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253). |
| Summary |
"Balanced, worthwhile book includes chapters on threats to the environment, change and societal response, conservation and management, plantation crops, agroforestry, ranching, floodplain dynamics, and trends and opportunities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
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"This book is the third in a series from the United Nations University (UNU) research project, Critical Zones in Global Environmental Change, itself part of the UNU programme on the Human and Policy Dimensions of Global Change. Both endeavours explore the complex linkages between human activities and the environment. The project views the human causes of and responses to major changes in biogeochemical systems--global environmental change broadly defined--as consequences of cumulative and synergistic actions (or inactions) of individuals, groups, and states, occurring in their local and regional settings. The study examines and compares nine regional cases in which large-scale, human-induced environmental changes portend to threaten the sustainability of an existing system."--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
1. Amazonia under siege -- 2. Environmental threats: The myth of virginity ; Climatic change ; The environmental impact of smoke ; Soil erosion and floods ; Hydroelectric dams ; The environmental impacts of mining ; Petroleum extraction ; A blizzard of cocaine ; Habitat destruction and the loss of biodiversity -- 3. Forces of change and societal responses: Population change ; Technological change ; Socio-economic and institutional change ; Beliefs and attitudes towards development ; Inocme and wealth issues ; Societal responses -- 4. Forest conservation and management -- 5. Silviculture and plantation crops -- 6. Agro-forestry and perennial cropping systems -- 7. Ranching problems and potential on the uplands -- 8. Land-use dynamics on the Amazon flood plain -- 9. Trends and opportunities. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental protection -- Amazon River Valley.
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Environmental protection. |
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Amazon River Valley. |
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Natural resources -- Amazon River Valley.
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Natural resources. |
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Land use -- Amazon River Valley.
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Land use. |
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Agriculture -- Amazon River Valley.
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Agriculture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Nigel J. H., 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Amazonia. Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©1995 9280809067 (DLC) 96213182 (OCoLC)33724960 |
| ISBN |
0585287848 (electronic book) |
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9780585287843 (electronic book) |
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9280809067 |
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9789280809060 |
| Sudoc No. |
[UNU/]UNUP/906 |
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