Research Catalog

Title

Nature's geography : new lessons for conservation in developing countries / edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young.

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Zimmerer, Karl S.
• Young, Kenneth R.

Description

xvi, 351 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Conservation of natural resources > Developing countries
• Landscape changes > Developing countries
• Economic development > Environmental aspects
• Biodiversity conservation > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The conservation challenges of forest loss and fragmentation. Landscape change and resource conservation along the Tana River, Kenya / Kimberly E. Medley. Forest landscape dynamics and panda conservation in southwestern China / Alan H. Taylor and Qin Zisheng. Deforestation in landscapes with humid forests in the central Andes: patterns and processes / Kenneth R. Young. Monitoring forests in the Andes using remote sensing: an example from southern Ecuador / Fernando R. Echavarria -- pt. 2. The conservation challenges of disturbances in high mountains. Fire management and natural landscapes in the Chirripó Páramo, Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica / Sally P. Horn. Human impact on the High Páramo landscape of the Venezuelan Andes / Francisco L. Pérez. Grazing the forest, shaping the landscape? Continuing the debate about forest dynamics in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal / Barbara Brower and Ann Dennis -- pt. 3. Land use in settled areas and the prospects for conservation-with-development. Biogeography of land-use impacts in the Near East / Mark A. Blumler. The interaction of grazing history with rainfall and its influence on annual rangeland dynamics in the Sahel / Matthew D. Turner. Disturbances and diverse crops in the farm landscapes of highland South America / Karl S. Zimmerer. The ecology, use, and conservation of temperate and subalpine forest landscapes of West Central Nepal / John J. Metz. Ethnobotanical knowledge and environmental risk: foragers and farmers in northern Borneo / Robert A. Voeks.

Call Number

JFE 99-5278

ISBN

• 0299159108 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299159140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98025743

OCLC

39235691

Title

Nature's geography : new lessons for conservation in developing countries / edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young.

Imprint

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Zimmerer, Karl S.

Young, Kenneth R.

Research Call Number

JFE 99-5278