Lands at Risk in the Third World: Local-Level Perspectives: Local-level Perspectives - Hardcover

Little, Peter D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367012200 ISBN 13: 9780367012205

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book presents important case studies highlighting social, economic, political, and biological dimensions of environmental degradation in the Third World. Focusing on areas identified as experiencing or at risk for deterioration, the studies are drawn from nearly every continent and cover most of the larger ecosystems of the Third World, including arid and semiarid rangelands, tropical rain forests, steep-sloped mountains and hills, tropical river basins, and coastal lowlands. The authors use local data to examine, test, and refine larger explanatory models and theories, showing how comparisons of case-specific data can sharpen our knowledge about resource use in areas at risk. In doing so, the authors address two critical questions: How can land degradation processes be identified and how can the human role in land degradation be separated from the effects of climate and other natural actions?

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About the Author

Peter D. Little is senior research associate at the Institute for Development Anthropology. Michael M Horowitz is director of the Institute for Development Anthropology and professor of anthropology at SUNY-Binghamton.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367012200
• ISBN 13: 9780367012205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 430