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Title: The vanishing forest. The human consequences of deforestation

Abstract

This report highlights the rapid destruction of the world's remaining tropical rainforests. It stresses the devastating consequences, both in the short-term, as developers take over the forests from their indigenous inhabitants, and in the long-term, as deforestation threatens to destroy the vital natural resource, to bring out irreversible climatic changes, and to cause the loss of gene pools needed for future agricultural and medical progress. What we urgently need, this report argues, are policy changes that make forest conversion a vehicle of sustainable development so that human civilization can continue in the tropics, and so that forest areas of particular ecological value are preserved.

Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6999462
Resource Type:
Book
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; FORESTS; ECOLOGY; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; LEADING ABSTRACT; ABSTRACTS; DOCUMENT TYPES; INDUSTRY; 510100* - Environment, Terrestrial- Basic Studies- (-1989)

Citation Formats

. The vanishing forest. The human consequences of deforestation. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
. The vanishing forest. The human consequences of deforestation. United States.
. 1986. "The vanishing forest. The human consequences of deforestation". United States.
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abstractNote = {This report highlights the rapid destruction of the world's remaining tropical rainforests. It stresses the devastating consequences, both in the short-term, as developers take over the forests from their indigenous inhabitants, and in the long-term, as deforestation threatens to destroy the vital natural resource, to bring out irreversible climatic changes, and to cause the loss of gene pools needed for future agricultural and medical progress. What we urgently need, this report argues, are policy changes that make forest conversion a vehicle of sustainable development so that human civilization can continue in the tropics, and so that forest areas of particular ecological value are preserved.},
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year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
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