Author : R. Lal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Criteria for land development. Lend clearing methods. Labd clearing and development in diferent ecologies. Impact of land clearing on the ecosystem. Soil management. Socioeconomic considerations.
Author : Michael Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135993653
First Published in 2011. Latin America today is similar to Canada in the early 1900s-a sleeping giant, basically underpopulated, whose potential rests on the exploitation of enormous land, forest, mineral, and water reserves. This study, carried out over the period 1967-69, has involved travel throughout much of Latin America north of the Tropic of Capricorn and discussions with people in many different fields, including highway construction, forestry, colonization, and agricultural industries in the forest frontier regions and capital cities of the continent. The collection of data required about twelve months of the author in the field.
Author : Doug Southgate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000313743
Over time, scientists, technologists, and resource managers in affiuent countries have devised and institutionalized methodologies for exploiting and managing natural resources in their own environments with considerable success. In doing so, they have provided models, at least of development and affiuence, that the less developed countries seek to employ. An international symposium involving both invited and contributed papers addressing the technological and institutional challenges of sustainable development of natural resources in the Third World was staged in September 1985 in Columbus, Ohio, co-sponsored by The Argonne National Laboratory of Argonne, Illinois, The Tropical Renewable Resources Program and the School of Natural Resources of The Ohio State University, and the United States Agency for International Development. This volume presents selected papers from the symposium.
Author : Judith Heyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134905318X
Author : José I. Furtado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000698963
Originally published in 1990 Tropical Resources presents in-depth coverage of the extremely diverse tropical environments, the resources to be found within the region and their production, and ecological management. The book discusses economic geography and ways of utilizing available resources, including those of tropical forests, wildlife, tidal wetlands and the sea. The book also include chapters on the development and land use of protected areas, the ecological aspects of pasture resources; and the impacts of economic development and population damage. In addition, studies are offered on tropical soils, including their distribution properties and management and the ecological processes at work in tropical forests. For geographers, economists and policymakers, the book provides a wealth of information on tropical resources and their potential development.
Author :
Publisher : IITA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andreas Schulte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662036495
An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria.
Author : Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1316812073
The long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades, bringing the topic completely up to date. The book addresses critical issues such as whether humanity can feed itself, and whether it can do so in environmentally sound and sustainable ways. Written from agronomic, environmental, and ecological standpoints, the textbook employs a multidisciplinary approach, including policymaking and plant genetic improvements, as well as ecosystem services, climate change, biodiversity, sustainability and resilience. New chapters in this second edition focus on organic carbon in soil, soil biology, soils in relation to livestock production and forestry, and agroforestry. The new edition will again be the go-to textbook for courses on tropical soils, and a reference textbook for soil and agricultural scientists and development professionals working in the tropics.
Author : N.Mark Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349120308
The first of a series designed to cover all tropical rain forests in the world. This is a visual portfolio of detailed maps of Asia, accompanied by a text which seeks to analyze the extent and causes of deforestation and to point a way towards sustainable forest development.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN :
