Managed ecosystems : the Mesoamerican experience /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
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| Description: | x, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in sustainable agronomy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3667546 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Globalization and Sustainable Resource Management: The Issues
- 1. IntroductionUpton Hatch
- 2. Institutional Constraints on Agricultural Sustainability
- 3. The Logic of Community Resource Management in Latin America
- 4. Agroforestry in Guatemala
- 5. Sustaining What for Whom? Differences of Interest Withinand Between Households
- Part II. Challenges to Managing the Natural Resource Base in a Shrinking World
- 6. Biodiversity Conservation in Mesoamerica
- 7. Protecting Natural Resources in a Developing Nation:The Case of Costa Rica
- 8. Landscape Ecology of Transformed Neotropical Environments
- 9. Neotropical Forests: Status and Prediction
- 10. The Geography of Dryland Plant Formations in Central America
- 11. Soils of Mesoamerica
- 12. Aquatic Ecosystem Deterioration in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 13. Freshwater Resource Development: Case Studies from Puerto Rico and Costa Rica
- 14. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Streams and Riversin Central America
- Part III. Food, Fuel, and Fiber Production: Are They Sustainable in a Globalized Economy?
- 15. Traditional Farming Systems: Panacea or Problem?
- 16. The Frijol Tapado Agroecosystem:The Survival and Contribution of a Managed Fallow System to Modern Costa Rican Agriculture
- 17. Food Crop Production Systems in Central America
- 18. Organic Farming in Central America
- 19. La Pacica, 40 Years of Farm Ecology
- 20. The Sustainability of Mild Production in Mesoamerica
- 21. Globalization, Population Growth, and Agroforestry in Mesoamerica: Perspectives for the 21st Century
- 22. Biologically Sustainable Agroecosystems: Using Principles of Ecology
- 23. Forest Plantations in the Tropics
- 24. Challenges to Sustainability: The Central American Shrimp Mariculture Industry
- 25. Shrimp Farming in Southern Honduras: A Case for Sustainable Production
- 26. Understanding Conflict in Lowland Forest Zones: Mangrove Access and Deforestation Debates in Southern Honduras
- 27. Conclusion
