...This chapter, first printed in 1995, explores rapid deforestation in Guinea, West Africa, where policy has been guided by a narrative concerning population growth and the breakdown of past authority and community organization that once maintained “original” forest vegetation. The chapter explores...

... interspecies interactions are discussed. Finally the chapter discusses forest conversion, secondary succession, and restoration. The authors give a history of land use, deforestation, and biodiversity loss, and continue with a history of recent efforts at reforestation and forest restoration. The chapter ends...

... Samanea Sideroxylon forest and grassland fires Pizarro Francisco grass Haematoxylum brasiletto Swietenia North Oliver California Gold Rush 1848 earthquakes Monumento Nacional Santa Rosa Parque Nacional Santa Rosa Costa Rica deforestation dry forests livestock raising Mora José Joaquín...

... resilience forest changes and weed suppression gap phase regeneration natural regeneration barriers to selectively logged forests socioecological processes succession arrested deforestation carbon dynamics forest degradation definitions of Forest Resource Assessment FRA Global Partnership...

... tropical forest landscapes is not random, in large part because the distribution of prior deforestation, land use, and land abandonment are not random. Deforestation and reforestation pathways emerge from the coupled dynamics of ecological and social systems. In our globalized economy, migration...

...This chapter evaluates how, after the raid on ocean islands, entire continents suffered the combined assault of overhunting, poaching, deforestation, and agriculture, as well as of invasive species that were carried around the world. It begins by looking at population decline, focusing on the case...

... Corriveau Amélie Espinosa Gómez Fabiola Europe foraging forests South America Valenta Kim World Wildlife Fund Asia Central America folivores and folivory frugivores and frugivory North America Oceania forests in bushmeat climate change deforestation habitats Kibale National Park Uganda...

... within Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees land and resource tenure in African Sahel China Ben people of monocultures Chinese state policy and deforestation in African Sahel narratives of African savanna agricultural practices...

... deforestation forest rent tenurial conflict In 2002, residents of A —a suburb of Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana—visited their chief to ask that he rescind a recently announced moratorium on building cement tombs in the town cemetery. A had grown rapidly in the preceding decade and the chief...

... Madagascar Merck Pharmaceuticals Periwinkle Project pharmaceutical companies Shaman Pharmaceuticals vincristine Catharanthus roseus FDA Federal Drug Administration tropical deforestation hamburger connection degradation narratives non timber forest products environmental metaphor The first clue...

... about anthropogenic climate change. In the 1870s and ‘80s, arguments raged over the climatic consequences of deforestation and swamp drainage. In Austria, this controversy was decisively shaped by the structure of the multinational state. Its competing levels of governance pressed the question...

...Human activities such as agriculture, deforestation, and fossil fuel burning affect the natural carbon cycle in many ways, and release greenhouse gases that increase atmospheric CO₂ concentration and cause climate change. Economists suggest that pricing carbon emissions through a tax...

... threats to chimpanzee to illustrate what the scientific and conservation communities know and do not know and illustrate the way forward. The relative contributions of deforestation, the bushmeat industry, disease, and climate change as factors driving chimpanzee population declines are considered. While...

... that deforestation led to volatile weather patterns whereas afforestation and forest conservation could help restore equable climatic conditions. Even though some forestry advocates continued to bolster expansionism and capitalist development, others developed a humble appreciation for the mysteries of climate...

... mahogany once came from Madeira and the Caribbean; indeed, in the Caribbean the word “madeira” meant mahogany (as well as wine) well into the nineteenth century. Both places were deforested of mahogany and planted with the cash crops that allow Jane Eyre to furnish her world with souvenirs, in the form...