Research Catalog

Title

Requiem for nature / John Terborgh.

Author

Terborgh, John, 1936-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xii, 234 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Using Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru as a standard, the author addresses the multiple threats of civilization to the precarious state of the tropics. He "makes a compelling case that nature can be saved only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined."--Jacket.

Subject

• Nature conservation > Tropics
• Protected areas > Tropics
• Nature conservation
• Protected areas
• Artenreichtum
• Naturschutz
• Nature > Protection > Régions tropicales
• Espaces protégés > Régions tropicales
• Tropics
• Tropen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.

Contents

The making of a dissident -- Assessing the present -- Paradise fading -- The danger within -- Parks: the last bastions of nature -- Protecting biodiversity -- Preserving biodiversity for posterity -- Tropical forests: worth more dead than alive -- From wildlands to wasteland: land use and the mirage of sustainable development -- Why conservation in the tropics is failing: the need for a new paradigm -- Hard choices in the twenty-first century -- Nature, a global commons.

ISBN

• 1559635878
• 9781559635875
• 1559635886
• 9781559635882
• 1417539518
• 9781417539512

LCCN

99021385

OCLC

• ocm40881608
• 40881608
• SCSB-822610

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library