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- catalog abstract "Using Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru as a standard, the author addresses the multiple threats of civilization to the precarious state of the tropics. He "makes a compelling case that nature can be saved only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11309987.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223).".
- catalog description "The making of a dissident -- Assessing the present -- Paradise fading -- The danger within -- Parks: the last bastions of nature -- Protecting biodiversity -- Preserving biodiversity for posterity -- Tropical forests: worth more dead than alive -- From wildlands to wasteland: land use and the mirage of sustainable development -- Why conservation in the tropics is failing: the need for a new paradigm -- Hard choices in the twenty-first century -- Nature, a global commons.".
- catalog description "Using Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru as a standard, the author addresses the multiple threats of civilization to the precarious state of the tropics. He "makes a compelling case that nature can be saved only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 234 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Requiem for nature.".
- catalog identifier "1559635878 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Requiem for nature.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Island Press,".
- catalog relation "Requiem for nature.".
- catalog spatial "Tropics.".
- catalog subject "333.7/2/0913 21".
- catalog subject "Nature conservation Tropics.".
- catalog subject "Protected areas Tropics.".
- catalog subject "QH77.T78 T47 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "The making of a dissident -- Assessing the present -- Paradise fading -- The danger within -- Parks: the last bastions of nature -- Protecting biodiversity -- Preserving biodiversity for posterity -- Tropical forests: worth more dead than alive -- From wildlands to wasteland: land use and the mirage of sustainable development -- Why conservation in the tropics is failing: the need for a new paradigm -- Hard choices in the twenty-first century -- Nature, a global commons.".
- catalog title "Requiem for nature / John Terborgh.".
- catalog type "text".