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Environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Aldemaro Romero and Sarah E. West.
- Title
- Environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Aldemaro Romero and Sarah E. West.
- Publication
- Dordrecht : Springer, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GE160.L29 E58 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 299 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Caribbean Area > Environmental conditions
- Conservation of natural resources > Caribbean Area
- Conservation of natural resources > Latin America
- Ecology
- Environment
- Environment, general
- Environmental Management
- Environmental degradation > Caribbean Area
- Environmental degradation > Latin America
- Environmental management
- Environmental protection > Caribbean Area
- Environmental protection > Latin America
- Environmental sciences
- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
- Latin America > Environmental conditions
- Nature Conservation
- Regional planning
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In the land of the mermaid: how culture, not ecology, influenced marine mammal exploitation in the southeastern Caribbean / Aldemaro Romero and Joel Cresswell -- Conserving the pines of Guadalupe and Cedros Islands, Mexico: an international collaboration / Deborah L. Rogers [and others] -- Biodiversity conservation in Bolivia: history, trends and challenges / Pierre L. Ibisch -- Peasant, environment and maize "modernization" in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, 1974-1982 / Bert Kreitlow -- Planting trees, building democracy: sustainable community forestry in Mexico / Ross E. Mitchell -- Market-based policies for pollution control in Latin America / Sarah E. West and Ann Wolverton -- A deeper solution for th einternational commons: building an effort control regime for the Eastern Tropical Pacific tuna fishery / Brian Trotter -- Eco-labeling in Latin America: providing a scientific foundation for consumer confidence in market-based conservation strategies / Thomas V. Dietsch -- Public prosecutors and environmental protection in Brazil / Lesley K. McAllister -- Democracy by proxy: environmental NGOs and policy change in Mexico / Paul Pacheco-Vega -- Economic progress in the countryside, forests, and public policy: some lessons from Ecuador and Chile / Douglas Southgate, Boris Bravo-Ureta, and Morris Whitaker -- Environmental implications of Cuba's development strategy during the special period / Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López.
- ISBN
- 1402037732 (hd.bd.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library