Slash-and-Burn Agriculture : The Search for Alternatives

Slash-and-Burn Agriculture : The Search for Alternatives

Editorial Reviews
Review

"This book... offers a detailed analysis of the many dimensions of deforestation." -- New Agriculturist

"The book is rich in conceptual tools, empirical analyses, and alternatives... I highly recommend it." -- Raymond P. Poincelot

"Recommended" -- Choice

"An important synthesis of research arising from the 1992 creation of the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) consortium." -- Gary S. Hartshorn, Bioscience

Review

""This remarkable volume addresses the sustainable management of tropical forests with unstinting sophistication, moving the analysis beyond clichés to the true complexities of the challenge.... [It] is a landmark on the path to sustainable development." -- Jeffrey Sachs, from the foreword to Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

Slash-and-Burn Agriculture : The Search for Alternatives

Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: The Search for Alternatives,Cheryl Palm,Stephen A. Vosti,Pedro A. Sanchez,Polly J. Ericksen,Columbia University Press,0231134517,Agriculture - Agronomy,Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture,Congresses,Control,Deforestation,Environmental aspects,History & Theory - General,Life Sciences - Ecology - Forest Ecology,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Shifting cultivation,Technology & Industrial Arts,Tropics,Agriculture & Farming,Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection

English Books:

1. Small Animal Care & Management
2. Soil Chemistry and its Applications (Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series)
3. Soils In Construction, Fifth Edition
4. Soils in Our Environment
5. States of Nature : Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
6. Taking Care of What We Have: Participatory Natural Resource Management on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
7. Temperate-Zone Pomology: Physiology and Culture
8. The Behavior of the Horse (CABI Publishing)
9. The Biology of Animal Stress : Basic Principles and Implications for Animal Welfare (CABI Publishing)
10. The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War (Creating the North American Landscape)

English Books

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