Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension
- ISBN-10
- 0231103190
- ISBN-13
- 9780231103190
- Series
- Tropical Deforestation
- Category
- Deforestation
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Authors
- Leslie Elmer Sponsel, Robert Converse Bailey, Robert C. Bailey
Description
The authors present fresh perspectives on the major global crisis of deforestation from a wide range of fields including biological ecology, forest history, conservation biology, anthropology, political economy, and development economics.
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- 1993-07-29
- 264 pages
- Paperback
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- 1993
- 234 pages
- Paperback
- Columbia University Press
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