Randall Baker

Environmental Management in the Tropics (eBook, ePUB)

An Historical Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The central thesis of this book is that history and a melding of artificial disciplinary divisions are essential for gaining any real understanding of the environmental tragedy and continuing dilemma of the tropics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000447590
• Artikelnr.: 62014949

Autorenporträt

Baker\, Randall

Inhaltsangabe

1. Some Common Themes 2. The Tropical Climate: The Great Heat Engine 3.
Resource Constraints and Opportunities 4. Energy and Food 5. Some
Principles of Traditional Land Use 6. Adaptations to the Environment 7.
Population and Land Use: Adaptations of the Environment 8. Europe Annexes
the Tropics 9. Colonial Agriculture in the 20th Century 10. The Development
Dilemma 11. Changes in Research: Systems and Revolutions 12. The
Administrative Trap 13. Environmental Degradation in Kenya: Two Conflicting
"Explanations 14. The Destruction of the Rain Forest: Development in
Action? 15. Desertification: What is it Really? 16. Prospects for a
Sustainable Future in the Tropics 17. Index