|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910455777703321 |
|
|
Titolo |
Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by A. Angelsen and D. Kaimowitz |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, : CABI Pub., 2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-281-90479-1 |
9786611904791 |
0-85199-899-2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (436 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
AngelsenArild |
KaimowitzDavid |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Deforestation - Tropics |
Deforestation - Control - Tropics |
Agriculture - Technology transfer - Tropics |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Based on papers presented at a workshop held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, Mar. 11-13, 1999. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: the Role of Agricultural Technologies in Tropical Deforestation; 2 Technological Change and Deforestation: a Theoretical Overview; 3 The Transition from Deforestation to Reforestation in Europe; 4 Did a Green Revolution Restore the Forests of the American South?; 5 A general Equilibrium Analysis of Technology, Migration and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon; 6 Will Intensifying Pasture Management in Latin America Protect Forests - or Is It the Other Way Round? |
7 Intensified Small-scale Livestock Systems in the Western Brazilian Amazon8 Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica; 9 Land Use, Agricultural Technology and Deforestation among Settlers in the Ecuadorean Amazon; 10 Ecuador Goes Bananas: Incremental Technological Change and Forest Loss; 11 Soybean Technology and the |
|
|
|
|