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Pulping the South : industrial tree plantations and the world paper economy

Title
Pulping the South : industrial tree plantations and the world paper economy / Ricardo Carrere and Larry Lohmann.
Author
Carrere, Ricardo.
Publication
London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Lohmann, Larry.
Description
280 pages; 23 cm
Summary
In its search for cheap wood to supply raw material, today's pulp and paper industry is throwing its net every wider across the world. One of the more disturbing results is the spread of fast-growing pulpwood plantations in the forests, pastures and farmlands of the South.
Subject
  • Pulpwood crops > Southern Hemisphere
  • Tree farms > Southern Hemisphere
  • Paper industry
  • Pulpwood crops
  • Tree farms
  • Southern Hemisphere
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-272) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Introducing Pulp and Paper -- 3. Emergence of a Global System -- 4. Impacts on People and their Environment -- 5. Actors behind the Scenes -- 6. Managing Resistance -- 7. Brazil: The Eucalyptus Pulp Giant -- 8. Chile: A Plantation Model Imposed by a Dictatorship -- 9. Uruguay: 'Forests' on the Grasslands -- 10. South Africa: A Fibre Exporter with Few Forests -- 11. Indonesia: Deforestration and Repression -- 12. Thailand: From 'Reforestation' to Contract Farming -- 13. Conclusion: Looking to the Future.
ISBN
  • 1856494373
  • 9781856494373
  • 1856494381
  • 9781856494380
  • 9748496805
  • 9789748496801
LCCN
  • 96019820
  • sw200787
OCLC
  • ocm34745978
  • 34745978
  • SCSB-2118070
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library