TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Nigel J.H.
TI  - Amazonia: resiliency and dynamism of the land and its people 
T2  - UNU studies on critical environmental regions
SN  - 0585287848
AV  - QH77.A53 A47 1995eb
U1  - 333.73/0981/1 21
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Tokyo, New York
PB  - United Nations University Press
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Amazon River Valley
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Land use
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Environnement
KW  - Protection
KW  - Amazonie
KW  - Conservation des ressources naturelles
KW  - Utilisation du sol
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - Agroforesterie
KW  - Forêts
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Développement rural
KW  - Développement économique
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Natural Resources
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Environmental Economics
KW  - Green Business
KW  - fast
KW  - Umweltveränderung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Landwirtschaft
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - ram
KW  - Écologie des forêts pluviales
KW  - ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
KW  - unbist
KW  - CLIMATE CHANGE
KW  - BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
KW  - FOREST CONSERVATION
KW  - FOREST MANAGEMENT
KW  - SILVICULTURE
KW  - AGROFORESTRY
KW  - RANGE MANAGEMENT
KW  - LAND USE
KW  - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KW  - AMAZON REGION
KW  - Amazonastiefland
KW  - Forests
KW  - Brazil
KW  - tropische regenbossen
KW  - tropical rain forests
KW  - bosbedrijfsvoering
KW  - forest management
KW  - milieubescherming
KW  - environmental protection
KW  - ecologie
KW  - ecology
KW  - biodiversiteit
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - sociale economie
KW  - socioeconomics
KW  - natuurbescherming
KW  - nature conservation
KW  - amazonia
KW  - Environmental Protection
KW  - Forest Management
KW  - Milieubescherming
KW  - Bosbeheer
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253); 1. Amazonia under siege -- 2. Environmental threats: The myth of virginity ; Climatic change ; The environmental impact of smoke ; Soil erosion and floods ; Hydroelectric dams ; The environmental impacts of mining ; Petroleum extraction ; A blizzard of cocaine ; Habitat destruction and the loss of biodiversity -- 3. Forces of change and societal responses: Population change ; Technological change ; Socio-economic and institutional change ; Beliefs and attitudes towards development ; Inocme and wealth issues ; Societal responses -- 4. Forest conservation and management -- 5. Silviculture and plantation crops -- 6. Agro-forestry and perennial cropping systems -- 7. Ranching problems and potential on the uplands -- 8. Land-use dynamics on the Amazon flood plain -- 9. Trends and opportunities; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - "Balanced, worthwhile book includes chapters on threats to the environment, change and societal response, conservation and management, plantation crops, agroforestry, ranching, floodplain dynamics, and trends and opportunities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57; "This book is the third in a series from the United Nations University (UNU) research project, Critical Zones in Global Environmental Change, itself part of the UNU programme on the Human and Policy Dimensions of Global Change. Both endeavours explore the complex linkages between human activities and the environment. The project views the human causes of and responses to major changes in biogeochemical systems--global environmental change broadly defined--as consequences of cumulative and synergistic actions (or inactions) of individuals, groups, and states, occurring in their local and regional settings. The study examines and compares nine regional cases in which large-scale, human-induced environmental changes portend to threaten the sustainability of an existing system."--Publisher description
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