The Subsidy from Nature: Palm Forests, Peasantry, and the Development of Amazon Frontier (Biology and Resource Management)

by Anthony Anderson, Peter May, and Michael Balick

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Examines the regeneration of babassu palm trees on deforested land in Amazonian Brazil, how it is being used by the rural populations, and how development policies are undermining this gift. Concludes by critiquing the conventional model of ecology and proposing a new one. Annotation copyright Book
  • ISBN10 0231072228
  • ISBN13 9780231072229
  • Publish Date 18 November 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Columbia University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 233
  • Language English