Footprints in the Jungle Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation

Name: Footprints in the Jungle Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation
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ISBN: 9780198029069

ISBN-10: 0198029063

ISBN-13: 9780198029069

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ian A. Bowles, Glenn T. Prickett

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Tropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades. These industries and their infrastructure, including roads and power lines, have a tremendous impact on the environment and often conflict with the growing concern for conservation, particularly the conservation of tropical biodiversity. However, development in the tropics is extremely important economically, both for developing and industrialized nations, and Footprints in the Jungle is an invaluable reference in this important and highly politicized debate. This volume looks at new approaches that lessen the impact of development. It collects numerous case studies by…

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List price: $93.82
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Binding: E-Book
Language: English