Changing Tropical Forests. Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America.1992. VIII,303 p.gr8vo.Cloth.

Contents (partly): Introduction/ Keynote Addresses (Perceptions ofDeforestation in Tropical America: The Last 50 Years, Gerardo Budowski/The Tasks of Latin American Environmental History, Warren Dean)/ CentralAmerica (Microfossils and Forest History in Costa Rica, Sally P.Horn/Exploitation of Natural Resources in Colonial Central America: Indianand Spanish Approaches, Murdo J.MacLeod/ Environmental History of LaSelva Biological Station. How Colonization and Deforestation of Sarapiqui Canton, Costa Rica, Have Altered the Ecological Context ofthe Station, Susan M.Pierce/ Deforestation and Changing Land-UsePatterns in Costa Rica, Mary Pamela Lehman/ etc.)/ Mexico (MayaUrabnism and Ecological Change, Elizabeth Graham and David M.Pendergast/La Importancia Ecologica Y Economica De Las Tecnologias Tradicionales EnLa Agri- Y Silvicultura En Areas De Bosque Tropical Humedo En Mexico,Rhena Hoffmann/ Tropical Forest Policy and Practice During the MexicanPorfiriato, 1876-1910, Herman W.Konrad/ etc.)/ Brazil and Amazonia((Urban Growth, Economic Expansion, and Deforestation in Late ColonialRio de Janeiro, Larissa V.Brown/ Forest Management in Brazil: AHistorical Perspective, Sebastiao Kengen/ Indigenous History andAmazonian Biodiversity, William Balee/ etc.)/ Timber Extraction andForestry Since Colonial Times.