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Autore |
Palm C. A |
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Titolo |
Slash-and-Burn Agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : The Search for Alternatives |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (487 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VostiStephen A |
SanchezPedro A |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (Programme) -- Congresses |
Deforestation -- Control -- Tropics -- Congresses |
Shifting cultivation -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics -- Congresses |
Shifting cultivation -- Tropics -- Congresses |
Shifting cultivation - Environmental aspects - Tropics |
Shifting cultivation - Control - Tropics |
Deforestation - Tropics |
Agriculture |
Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Agriculture - General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""I The Problem and Approach""; ""1 Alternatives to Slash and Burn: Challenge and Approaches of an International Consortium""; ""II Thematic Research""; ""2 Carbon Losses and Sequestration After Land Use Change in the Humid Tropics""; ""3 Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Slash and Burn and Alternative Land Use Practices in Sumatra, Indonesia""; ""4 The Potential Role of Above-Ground Biodiversity Indicators in Assessing Best-Bet Alternatives to Slash and Burn"" |
""5 Below-Ground Biodiversity Assessment: Developing a Key Functional Group Approach in Best-Bet Alternatives to Slash and Burn""""6 Sustainability of Tropical Land Use Systems After Forest |
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Conversion""; ""7 The Forest for the Trees: The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia""; ""III Site-Specific Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Agriculture""; ""8 Sustainable Forest Management for Smallholder Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon""; ""9 Permanent Smallholder Rubber Agroforestry Systems in Sumatra, Indonesia"" |
""10 Coffee, Pastures, and Deforestation in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A Farm-Level Bioeconomic Model""""11 Smallholder Options for Reclaiming and Using Imperata cylindrica L. (Alang-Alang) Grasslands in Indonesia""; ""IV National Perspectives""; ""12 The Western Brazilian Amazon""; ""13 The Forest Margins of Sumatra, Indonesia""; ""14 The Forest Margins of Cameroon""; ""15 The Peruvian Amazon: Development Imperatives and Challenges""; ""16 Northern Thailand: Changing Smallholder Land Use Patterns""; ""V Cross-Site Comparisons and Conclusions"" |
""17 Land Use Systems at the Margins of Tropical Moist Forest: Addressing Smallholder Concerns in Cameroon, Indonesia, and Brazil""""18 Balancing Agricultural Development and Environmental Objectives: Assessing Tradeoffs in the Humid Tropics""; ""Index"" |
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