Research Catalog

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

Title
Nature's geography : new lessons for conservation in developing countries / edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young.
Publication
Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance GF900 .N37 1998Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Young, Kenneth R.
  • Zimmerer, Karl S.
Description
xvi, 351 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Biodiversity conservation > Developing countries
  • Conservation of natural resources > Developing countries
  • Economic development > Environmental aspects
  • Landscape changes > Developing countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Introduction: the geographical nature of landscape change / K. Zimmerer and K. Young -- Landscape change and resource conservation along the Tana River, Kenya / K. Medley -- Forest landscape dynamics and panda conservation in Southwestern China / A. Taylor and Q. Zisheng -- Deforestation in landscapes with humid forests in the Central Andes: patterns and processes / K. Young.
  • Monitoring forests in the Andes using remote sensing: an example from Southern Ecuador / F. Echavarria -- Fire management and natural landscapes in the Chirripo, Paramo, Chirripo National Park, Costa Rica / S. Horn -- Human impact on the high Paramo landscape of the Venezuelan Andes / F. Perez.
  • Grazing the forest, shaping the landscape? : continuing the debate about forest dynamics in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal / B. Brower and A. Dennis -- Biogeography of land-use impacts in the Near East / M. Blumler -- The interaction of grazing history with rainfall and its influence on annual rangeland dynamics in the Sahel / M. Turner -- Disturbances and diverse crops in the farm landscapes of highland South America / K. Zimmerer -- The ecology, use and conservation of temperate and subalpine forest landscapes of West Central Nepal / J. Metz -- Ethnobotanical knowledge and environmental risk: foragers and farmers in Northern Borneo / R. Voeks -- Conclusion: biological conservation in developing countries / K. Young and K. Zimmerer.
ISBN
  • 0299159108 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0299159140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98025743^
OCLC
39235691
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library