Alternatives to deforestation: steps toward sustainable use of the Amazon rain forest/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Columbia University Press,
c1990
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Table of Contents:
- Deforestation in Amazonia
- Studies of ecosystem response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances provide guidelines for designing sustainable land-use systems in Amazonia
- Traditional management of tropical forests in Mexico
- Extraction and forest management by rural inhabitants in the Amazon estuary
- Population ecology and management of forest fruit trees in Peruvian Amazonia
- Seed and seedling availability as a basis for management of natural forest regeneration
- Celos management system
- Natural forest management by the Yanesha Forestry Cooperative in Peruvian Amazonia
- Indigenous agroforestry strategies meeting farmers' needs
- Japanese agroforestry in Amazonia
- Promoting agroforestry practices among small producers
- Secondary forests as a land-use resource in frontier zones of Amazonia
- Search for sustainability in Amazonian pastures
- Surmounting barriers to forest regeneration in abandoned, highly degraded pastures
- Predominant land uses in Brazilian Amazonia
- Extractive reserves
- Future of deforestation in Amazonia.