Research Catalog

Title

Managed ecosystems : the Mesoamerican experience / edited by L. Upton Hatch, Marilyn E. Swisher.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hatch, Upton.
• Swisher, Marilyn E., 1948-

Description

x, 292 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Topics in sustainable agronomy

Uniform Title

Topics in sustainable agronomy

Subject

• Sustainable agriculture > Latin America
• Agricultural ecology > Latin America
• Sustainable agriculture > Tropics
• Agricultural ecology > Tropics
• Agricultural ecology
• Sustainable agriculture
• Landwirtschaft
• Umweltverträglichkeit
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Natürliche Ressourcen
• Nutzung
• Agriculture durable > Amérique latine
• Écologie agricole > Amérique latine
• Agriculture durable > Régions tropicales
• Écologie agricole > Régions tropicales
• Latin America
• Tropics
• Mittelamerika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-273) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Globalization and Sustainable Resource Management: The Issues. 1. Introduction / Upton Hatch and Marilyn Swisher. 2. Institutional Constraints on Agricultural Sustainability / Vernon W. Ruttan. 3. The Logic of Community Resource Management in Latin America / William Ascher. 4. Agroforestry in Guatemala / John C. Mayne. 5. Sustaining What for Whom? Differences of Interest Within and Between Households / Dianne Rocheleau -- pt. II. Challenges to Managing the Natural Resource Base in a Shrinking World. 6. Biodiversity Conservation in Mesoamerica / Mario Boza. 7. Protecting Natural Resources in a Developing Nation: The Case of Costa Rica / Gilbert Vargas Ulate. 8. Landscape Ecology of Transformed Neotropical Environments / C. Ronald Carroll and Deborah Kane. 9. Neotropical Forests: Status and Prediction / John C. Mayne. 10. The Geography of Dryland Plant Formations in Central America / Gilbert Vargas Ulate. 11. Soils of Mesoamerica / Alexis Vasquez-Morera. 12. Aquatic Ecosystem Deterioration in Latin America and the Caribbean / Catherine M. Pringle and Frederick N. Scatena. 13. Freshwater Resource Development: Case Studies From Puerto Rico and Costa Rica / Catherine M. Pringle and Frederick N. Scatena. 14. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Streams and Rivers in Central America / Carlos L. de la Rosa -- pt. III. Food, Fuel, and Fiber Production: Are They Sustainable in a Globalized Economy? 15. Traditional Farming Systems: Panacea or Problem? / H.L. Popenoe and M.E. Swisher. 16. The Frijol Tapado Agroecosystem: The Survival and Contribution of a Managed Fallow System to Modern Costa Rican Agriculture / M. Rosemeyer, K. Schlather and J. Kettler. 17. Food Crop Production Systems in Central America / Raul A. Moreno. 18. Organic Farming in Central America / Gabriela Soto Munoz. 19. La Pacifica, 40 Years of Farm Ecology: A Case Study / Werner Hagnauer. 20. The Sustainability of Milk Production in Mesoamerica / Carlos A. Jimenez-Crespo. 21. Globalization, Population Growth, and Agroforestry in Mesoamerica: Perspectives for the 21st Century / Lawrence T. Szott. 22. Biologically Sustainable Agroecosystems: Using Principles of Ecology / John C. Mayne. 23. Forest Plantations in the Tropics / Richard F. Fisher. 24. Challenges to Sustainability: The Central American Shrimp Mariculture Industry / Susan C. Stonich, John R. Bort and Luis L. Ovares. 25. Shrimp Farming in Southern Honduras: A Case for Sustainable Production / David Teichert-Coddington. 26. Understanding Conflict in Lowland Forest Zones: Mangrove Access and Deforestation Debates in Southern Honduras / Denise Stanley. 27. Conclusion / Upton Hatch and Marilyn Swisher.

ISBN

• 0195102606
• 9780195102604

LCCN

97022125

OCLC

• ocm37107038
• 37107038
• SCSB-570353

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library