
Land Use Change and Reform in the Tropics
STUDY CASES
David Lopez Cornelio(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 22. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-3-8433-7142-1 (ISBN)
Description
The last decades witnessed an ever increasing concern for sustainable development worldwide together with unprecedented trends of human disturbance to land ecosystems. The case of tropical countries is particularly complex and largely misunderstood for being multi cultural regions with high biodiversity, politically unstable, economically weak, and usually struggling for a better integration with the global market. Most of the interventions were planned in the "North" and "from above" with insufficient understanding of local people rationality and real needs. Results from study cases in Brazil, Peru and Papua New Guinea that integrates GIS and socio economic surveys, debunk underestimated complexities and open the way for consensual long term solutions from within.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8433-7142-1 (9783843371421)
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David Lopez Cornelio, Dr.: originally from Peru. Completedforestry studies in Peru, China and Japan. Lectures at theForestry Department of Papua New Guinea University of Technologysince 2008 year. He can be contacted at www.lalomaperu.com ordavlzo@yahoo.com, davlzo26@gmail.com