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This book takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has
changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most
important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or varzea.
It also looks forward, assessing the trends that will determine the
fate of environments and people of the varzea over the next ten
years and providing crucial information that is needed to formulate
strategies for confronting these looming realities.
Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature
face--including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation--are
the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these
assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and
future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and
cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these
forces--from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems--has
masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence,
even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and
current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives
of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at
the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters
covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in
now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and
knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the
unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores
forests as places of significant human action, with complex
institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these
landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain
forests to timber farms, the face of forests--how we define,
understand, and maintain them--is changing.
This book takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has
changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most
important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or varzea.
It also looks forward, assessing the trends that will determine the
fate of environments and people of the varzea over the next ten
years and providing crucial information that is needed to formulate
strategies for confronting these looming realities.
The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined
with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their
livelihood. "Conservation of Neotropical Forests" provides
important information for understanding the interactions of forest
peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and
South America. This interdisciplinary study features experts from
both the natural and social sciences to illuminate the present
dilemma of conserving neotropical resources. These contributors --
who are responsible for some of the most promising work in cultural
and biodiversity conservation -- investigate the patterns of
traditional resource use, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
existing research, and explore innovative directions for furthering
the interdisciplinary conservationist agenda.
The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined
with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their
livelihood. "Conservation of Neotropical Forests" provides
important information for understanding the interactions of forest
peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and
South America. This interdisciplinary study features experts from
both the natural and social sciences to illuminate the present
dilemma of conserving neotropical resources. These contributors --
who are responsible for some of the most promising work in cultural
and biodiversity conservation -- investigate the patterns of
traditional resource use, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
existing research, and explore innovative directions for furthering
the interdisciplinary conservationist agenda.
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