Development Or Destruction: The Conversion Of Tropical Forest To Pasture In Latin AmericaTheodore E Downing Avalon Publishing, 1992 M11 5 - 405 páginas This interdisciplinary study focuses on the effects of forest destruction in Latin America, caused by the expansion of cattle production into these seemingly under-utilized areas. The high ecological and social costs are analyzed from the perspective of several disciplines. |
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Part | 5 |
Bioeconomic Costs | 67 |
Livestock Economy and Forest Destruction | 95 |
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agricultural Amazon Basin Amazonia animal beef biological Brazil campesino cattle pasture cattle production cattle raising cattle ranching Central America Centro clearing climate Colombia communities conservation Costa Rica costs crops debt deforestation degradation destruction E. O. Wilson ecological economic ecosystems Ecuador Edited environment environmental ethnic federations exports extractive extractive reserves farming forest areas forest lands forest management forest products forest resources forest to pasture forestry grass grazing growth Hecht hectares humid tropics important increased Indians indigenous industrial investment Latin America Ledec livestock logging Lugo ment Mexico milk million hectares Napo province natural resources nutrient Oaxaca organizations Panama pasture peasants plant policies political population potential problems production systems programs projects rain forest rates regional development resource management rural Salati secondary forests sector Serrão silvopasture unit social soil species strategy sustainable swaps technologies timber tion Toledo trees tropical forests tropical rain Washington World Bank zones