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" On the edge : "
Claude Martin ; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy.
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BL
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855358
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Martin, Claude,1945-
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On the edge : : the state and fate of the world's tropical rainforests : a report to the Club of Rome /\ Claude Martin ; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy.
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Vancouver ;Berkeley :: Greystone Books,, [2015]
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, ©2015
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XXI, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (some color), color maps ;; 24 cm
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1771641401
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: 9781771641401
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9781771641418
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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A destructive twentieth century: the rising consciousness -- Monitoring tropical rainforest trends: a tortuous exercise -- Global and regional deforestation patterns -- The root causes of deforestation and forest degradation -- Forest transition: modest hopes -- Rainforest biodiversity: treasures without price tags -- Rainforest conservation: impressive results -- are they enough? -- Climate change in the twenty-first century: the end of rainforests? The twenty-first century: decisive for the tropical rainforests!
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"[The author] brings together information from remote imaging, ecology, and economics to explain deforestation and forest health through the world"--Front jacket flap.
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Rain forest ecology.
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Rain forests.
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Écologie des forêts pluviales.
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Forêts pluviales.
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Rain forest ecology.
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Rain forest ecology.
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Rain forests.
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Rain forests.
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| Dewey Classification
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577.34
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QH541.5.R27M365 2015
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cci1icclacc
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coll13lacc
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