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• catalog abstract "The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national, and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region. The leading scholars and specialists in this volume, from both Latin America and the United States, present a uniquely interdisciplinary study of the historical, economic, and political causes accounting for the pace and pattern of the area's deforestation. Their collected research provides a highly instructive sampler of the best and most useful approaches to land use and deforestation across the broad range of disciplines, agencies, and orientations involved, from the long-term impact of road construction projects, colonization schemes, and commodity prices to immediate concerns over quality of life, water availability, and climate variation.".
• catalog contributor b12607795.
• catalog contributor b12607796.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction : Land use and deforestation in the Amazon / Charles H. Wood -- Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / David Kaimowitz [and others] -- Deforestation and forest degradation in lowland Bolivia / Pablo Pacheco -- An analysis of the geographical patterns of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the period 1991-1996 / Diógenes S. Alves -- Population growth and net migration in the Brazilian legal Amazon, 1970-1996 / Stephen G. Perz -- The colonist footprint : toward a conceptual framework of land use and deforestation trajectories among small farmers in the Amazonian frontier / Eduardo S. Brondízio [and others] -- Land use patterns on an agricultural frontier in Brazil : insights and examples from a demographic perspective / Stephen D. McCracken [and others] -- Trajectories of land use : soils, succession, and crop choice / Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondízio, and Stephen D. McCracken -- Reading colonist landscapes : social factors influencing land use decisions by small farmers in the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder -- Endogenous patterns and processes of settler land use and forest change in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Francisco Pichón [and others] -- Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests / Mark A. Cochrane [and others] -- Can pasture intensification discourage deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal regions of Brazil? / Philip M. Fearnside -- Land use, cattle ranching, and the concentration of landownership in Maranhão, Brazil / Roberto Porro -- Lessons learned from participatory land use planning in the Brazilian Amazon / Virgílio M. Viana and Renata Freire -- An experiment in participatory mapping in Brazil's Jaú National Park / Muriel Saragoussi [and others].".
• catalog description "The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national, and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region. The leading scholars and specialists in this volume, from both Latin America and the United States, present a uniquely interdisciplinary study of the historical, economic, and political causes accounting for the pace and pattern of the area's deforestation. Their collected research provides a highly instructive sampler of the best and most useful approaches to land use and deforestation across the broad range of disciplines, agencies, and orientations involved, from the long-term impact of road construction projects, colonization schemes, and commodity prices to immediate concerns over quality of life, water availability, and climate variation.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 385 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0813024641 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "081302465X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida,".
• catalog spatial "Amazon River Region.".
• catalog subject "333.75/137/09811 21".
• catalog subject "Deforestation Amazon River Region.".
• catalog subject "Land use Amazon River Region.".
• catalog subject "SD418.3.A53 D44 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : Land use and deforestation in the Amazon / Charles H. Wood -- Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / David Kaimowitz [and others] -- Deforestation and forest degradation in lowland Bolivia / Pablo Pacheco -- An analysis of the geographical patterns of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the period 1991-1996 / Diógenes S. Alves -- Population growth and net migration in the Brazilian legal Amazon, 1970-1996 / Stephen G. Perz -- The colonist footprint : toward a conceptual framework of land use and deforestation trajectories among small farmers in the Amazonian frontier / Eduardo S. Brondízio [and others] -- Land use patterns on an agricultural frontier in Brazil : insights and examples from a demographic perspective / Stephen D. McCracken [and others] -- Trajectories of land use : soils, succession, and crop choice / Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondízio, and Stephen D. McCracken -- Reading colonist landscapes : social factors influencing land use decisions by small farmers in the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder -- Endogenous patterns and processes of settler land use and forest change in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Francisco Pichón [and others] -- Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests / Mark A. Cochrane [and others] -- Can pasture intensification discourage deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal regions of Brazil? / Philip M. Fearnside -- Land use, cattle ranching, and the concentration of landownership in Maranhão, Brazil / Roberto Porro -- Lessons learned from participatory land use planning in the Brazilian Amazon / Virgílio M. Viana and Renata Freire -- An experiment in participatory mapping in Brazil's Jaú National Park / Muriel Saragoussi [and others].".
• catalog title "Deforestation and land use in the Amazon / edited by Charles H. Wood and Roberto Porro.".
• catalog type "text".