Requiem for nature / John Terborgh
- Bib ID:
- 1321310
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Terborgh, John, 1936-
- Description:
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- Washington, D.C. : Island Press ; [London : Kogan Page] [distributor], c1999
- xii, 234 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1559635878
- Summary:
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For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru is a second home. Seeing the steady destruction of irreplaceable habitat has been a startling and disturbing experience. In Requiem for Nature, Terborgh appraises the prospects for the future of tropical conservation. This book is a clarion call for anyone who cares about the quality of the natural world we will leave our children. Terborgh explains how seemingly pristine environments can gradually degrade and describes the difficult social context - a debilitating combination of poverty, corruption, abuses of power, political instability, and a frenzied scramble for quick richesin which tropical conservation must take place.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The Making of a Dissident
- Ch. 2. Assessing the Present
- Ch. 3. Paradise Fading
- Ch. 4. The Danger Within
- Ch. 5. Parks: The Last Bastions of Nature
- Ch. 6. Protecting Biodiversity
- Ch. 7. Preserving Biodiversity for Posterity
- Ch. 8. Tropical Forests: Worth More Dead Than Alive
- Ch. 9. From Wildlands to Wasteland: Land Use and the Mirage of Sustainable Development
- Ch. 10. Why Conservation in the Tropics Is Failing: The Need for a New Paradigm
- Ch. 11. Hard Choices in the Twenty-First Century
- Ch. 12. Nature, a Global Commons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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