Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest

• Paperback | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• According to World Health Organization estimates, 80 percent of people living in developing countries rely on wild harvested plants for some aspect of... Lees meer

Footprints of the Forest

William Balée

• Paperback | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• Footprints of the Forest is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between an Amazonian people and their botanical en... Lees meer

Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Marianne Schmink, Charles Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region ... Lees meer

GIS Methodologies for Developing Conservation Strategies

• Hardcover | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• Tropical habitats may contain more than a third of the world's plant and animal species; Costa Rica alone is home to one of the highest levels of biod... Lees meer

The Return of the Unicorns

Eric Dinerstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• Beginning in 1984, Eric Dinerstein led a team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National... Lees meer

Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work

• Paperback | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to ... Lees meer

Useful Palms of the World

• Hardcover | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• A catalog of 1,200 references to research in libraries and private collections. Each entry gives a full bibliographic citation, a detailed abstract no... Lees meer

The Catfish Connection

Ronaldo Barthem, Michael Goulding

• Hardcover | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• In The Catfish Connection, two leading scientific offer a groundbreaking ecological view of the Amazon as seen through some of its most curious and wi... Lees meer

The Return of the Unicorns

Eric Dinerstein

• Paperback | Engels | Biology and Resource Management
• Beginning in 1984, Eric Dinerstein led a team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National... Lees meer