Sustainable Forest Management and Global Climate Change: Selected Case Studies from the Americas'Ironically, the threat of global warming damage provides us with one of the most powerful arguments for avoiding the worst excesses of another global problem - deforestation. Dore and Guevara have assembled a very impressive set of essays that show j |
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Contents
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The carbon cycle and the value of forests as a carbon sink a tropical case study | 107 |
Agriculture versus forestry in northern Saskatchewan | 148 |
Economic valuation of mangrove ecosystems and subtropical forests in Central America | 166 |
The Canadian Model Forest Program a case study of the Saskatchewan model forest | 201 |
Forest policy in Costa Rica | 225 |
Forest management in a semiarid region in Brazil a case study of the state of Rio Grande do Norte | 261 |
Name index | 271 |
Subject index | 274 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sustainable Forest Management and Global Climate Change: Selected Case Studies from the Americas Elgar Monographs |
| Editors | M. H. I. Dore, Ruben Guevara |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000 |
| ISBN | 1781952744, 9781781952740 |
| Length | 281 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General |
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