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Tropical deforestation : a socio-economic approach

Title
Tropical deforestation : a socio-economic approach / C.J. Jepma.
Author
Jepma, C. J.
Publication
London : Earthscan Publications, 1995.

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Description
xiii, 316 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
The author uses a specially developed, integrated model of the underlying socio-economic causes of tropical deforestation to demonstrate the role and contributions of those in the timber trade, and the consequences of policy measures affecting their interests.
Subject
  • Deforestation > Tropics
  • Deforestation
  • Entwaldung
  • Sozioökonomischer Wandel
  • Tropischer Regenwald
  • Ökologie
  • Ontbossing
  • Sociaal-economische aspecten
  • Tropics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index.
Contents
1. Tropical Rainforests -- 2. Forest Products -- 3. Tropical Forest Management -- 4. Forestry and Timber Trade Models -- 5. Agriculture in the Humid Tropics -- 6. Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Main Tropical Regions -- 7. Model Integration -- 8. Scenario Analysis and Model Simulations -- App. 1 Public policy and deforestation in Amazonia -- App. 2 The Indonesian case: logging and deforestation -- App. 3 Exports of tropical timber by main exporting countries -- App. 4 Export shares in total timber production -- App. 5 SARUM: regional disaggregation -- App. 6 List of background documents.
ISBN
  • 1853832383
  • 9781853832383
LCCN
95219628
OCLC
  • ocm33927350
  • 33927350
  • SCSB-1293068
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library