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Who will save the forests? : knowledge, power, and environmental destruction

Title
Who will save the forests? : knowledge, power, and environmental destruction / edited by Tariq Banuri and Frédérique Apffel Marglin.
Publication
London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., U.S.A. : Zed Books, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Banuri, Tariq.
  • Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique.
  • World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Description
195 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
Examines conflicts of the management of forest resources in various parts of the world.
Subject
  • UNEP
  • Forest conservation
  • Deforestation
  • Forest ecology
  • Ontbossing
  • Milieueffecten
  • FORESTS
  • DEFORESTATION
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
  • ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
  • INDIA
  • FINLAND
Note
  • "A Publication of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Credits (note)
  • "A publication of the United Nations University / World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)."
Contents
A systems-of-knowledge analysis of deforestation -- 2. The environmental crisis and the space for alternatives: India, Finland and Maine -- 3. An alternative system of knowledge: fields and forests in Abujhmarh -- 4. The malign encounter: the Chipko Movement and competing visions of nature -- 5. The benign encounter: the Great Move and the role of the state in Finnish forests -- 6. The internal conflict: contract logging, chainsaws and clear-cuts in Maine forestry -- Index.
ISBN
  • 1856491595
  • 9781856491594
  • 1856491609
  • 9781856491600
LCCN
93002788
OCLC
  • ocm27430437
  • 27430437
  • SCSB-2053640
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library