Changing tropical forests : historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Foresty History Group
Print Book, English, ©1992
Forest History Society ; IUFRO Forest History Group, [Durham, N.C.], [Vienna, Austria], ©1992
Conference papers and proceedings
vii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780822312475, 9780822312369, 0822312476, 0822312360
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Introduction / Harold K. Steen
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Perceptions of deforestation in tropical America: the last 50 years / Gerardo Budowski
The tasks of Latin American environmental history / Warren Dean
SECTION I: CENTRAL AMERICA
Microfossils and forest history in Costa Rica / Sally P. Horn
Exploitation of natural resources in colonial central America: Indian and Spanish approaches / Murdo J. MacLeod
Environmental history of La Selva Biological Station: how colonization and deforestation of Sarapiqui Canton, Costa Rica, have altered the ecological context of the station / Susan M. Pierce
Deforestation and changing land-use patterns in Costa Rica / Mary Pamela Lehmann
Perspectives on the educational programs and policies underlying natural resources development in the Canton of Coto Brus: a case study of a rural Costa Rican community / Robert D. Leier
History of protected areas and their management in Central America / James R. Barborak
SECTION II: MEXICO
Maya urbanism and ecological change / Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast
La importancia ecologica y economica de las tecnologias tradicionales en la agri- y silvicultura en areas de bosque tropical humedo en Mexicoo / Rhena Hoffmann
Tropical forest policy and practice during the Mexican Porfiriato, 1876-1910 / Herman W. Konrad
The long-term effects of the introduction of sheep into semi-arid sub-tropical regions / Elinor G.K. Melville
Problems of forest conservation: a feasible mechanism for biodiversity conservation / Silvia del Amo R
SECTION III: BRAZIL AND AMAZONIA
Urban growth, economic expansion, and deforestation in late colonial Rio de Janeiro / Larissa V. Brown
Forest management in Brazil: a historical perspective / Sebastiao Kengen
Indigenous history and Amazonian biodiversity / William Balee
Como el hombre se aposo de la tierra indigena en el "Pontal Do Paranapanema" en el estado do "Sao Paulo" / J. Regis Guillaumon
Promise and performance of industrial plantations in two regions of Australia and Brazil / John Dargavel and Sebastiao Kengen
The environmental history of Amazonia: natural and human disturbances, and the ecological transition / Leslie E. Sponsel
SECTION IV: TIMBER EXTRACTION AND FORESTRY SINCE COLONIAL TIMES
Exploitation and management of the Surinam forests 1600-1975 / Peter Boomgaard
Foreign investors, timber extraction, and forest depletion in Central America before 1941 / Richard P. Tucker
USDA Forest Service involvement in post World War II international forestry / Terry West
Latin America and the creation of a global forest industry / M. Patricia Marchak
Conference held in San José, Costa Rica