Changing tropical forests : historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Foresty History Group

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Changing tropical forests : historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Foresty History Group

edited by Harold K. Steen & Richard P. Tucker

Forest Hsitory Society , IUFRO Forest History Group, c1992

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Conference held in San José, Costa Rica

Includes bibliographical references

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Changing Tropical Forests begins with an overview of the history of deforestation in tropical America and the tasks facing Latin American environmental historians. Based on proceedings of a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group in Costa Rica, the contributors offer detailed accounts of the enivornmental history of specific forest conditions, grasslands, and changing ecosystems of Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, and Brazil. the role of human intervention in this process of change is also discussed.Contributors. William Balee, James R. Barborak, Peter Boomgaard, Larissa V. Brown, Gerardo Budowski, John Dargavel, Warren Dean, Silvia del Amo R., Elizabeth Graham, J. Regis Guillaumon, Rhena Hoffmann, Sally P. Horn, Sebastiao Kengen, Herman W. Konrad, Mary Pamela Lehmann, Robert D. Leier, Murdo J. MacLeod, M. Patricia Marchak, Elinor G. K. Melville, David M. Pendergast, Susan M. Pierce, Leslie E. Sponsel, Richard P. Tucker, Terry West

目次

Introduction / Harold K. Steen vii Keynote Addresses Perceptions of Deforestation in Tropical Areas: The Last 50 Years / Gerardo Budowski 1 The Tasks of Latin American Environmental History / Warren Dean 5 Section I: Central America Microfossils and Forest History in Costa Rica / Sally P. Horn 16 Exploitation of Natural Resources in Colonial Central America: Indian and Spanish Approaches / Murdo J. MacLeod 31 Environmental History of La Selva Biological Station: How Colonization and Deforestation of Sarapiqui Canton, Costa Rica, Have Altered the Ecological Content of the Station / Susan M. Pierce 40 Deforestation and Changing Land-Use Patterns in Costa Rica / Mary Pamela Lehmann 58 Perspectives on Educational Programs and Policies Underlying Natural Resources Development in the Canton of Coto Brus: A Case Study of a Rural Costa Rican Community / Robert D. Leier 77 History of Protected Areas and Their Management in Central America / James R. Barborak 93 Section II: Mexico Maya Urbanism and Ecological Change / Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast 102 La Importancia Ecologica Y Economica De Las Tecnologias Tradicionales En La Agri- Y Silvicultura En Areas De Bosque Tropical Humedo En Mexico / Rhena Hoffmann 110 Tropical Forest Policy and Practice During the Mexican Porfiriato, 1876-1910 / Herman W. Konrad 123 The Long-Term Effects of the Introduction of Sheep into Semi-Arid Sub-Tropical Regions / Elinor G. K. Melville 144 Problems of Forest Conservation: A Feasible Mechanism for Biodiversity Conservation / Silvia del Amo R 154 Section III: Brazil and Amazonia Urban Growth, Economic Expansion, and Deforestation in Late Colonial Rio de Janeiro / Larissa V. Brown 165 Forest Management in Brazil: A Historical Perspective / Sebastiao Kengen 176 Indigenous History and Amazonian Biodiversity / William Balee 185 Como El Hombre Se Aposo De La Tierra Indigena En El "Pontal Do Paranapanema" En El Estado De "Sao Paulo" / J. Regis Guillaumon 198 Promise and Performance of Industrial Plantations in Two Regions of Australia and Brazil / John Dargavel and Sebastiao Kengen 217 The Environmental History of Amazonia: Natural and Human Disturbances, and the Ecological Transition / Leslie E. Sponsel 233 Section IV: Timber Extraction and Forestry Since Colonial Times Exploitation and Management of the Surinam Forests 1600-1975 / Peter Boomgaard 252 Foreign Investors, Timber Extraction, and Forest Depletion in Central America Before 1941 / Richard P. Tucker 265 USDA Forest Service Involvement in Post World War II International Forestry / Terry West 277 Latin America and the Creation of a Global Forest Industry / M. Patricia Marchak 292 Author Affiliation 301

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