From the Book - Rev. and updated ed.
Spring, summer, and autumn in one tropical day / Henry Walter Bates
A spider web or a house of cards? / John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto
The champion of destruction / José Eustasio Rivera
Environmental limitations on culture in the tropical forest / Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans
Civilization and its discontents / Katherine Milton
A well-adapted life / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
The death of the Cuban forests / Manuel Morendo Fraginals
The history of ecological marginalization in Chiapas / Philip Howard
Rejecting progress in paradise: huastecs, the environment, and the oil industry in Veracruz, Mexico, 1900-1935 / Mryna Santiago
Revolution in the rainforest / Daniel Faber
Who is destroying the Amazon rainforest? / José A. Lutzenberger
Deforestation: a Brazilian perspective / Tadeu Valadares
A glimpse at some tropical habitats / John Terborgh
Natural resource losses reduce Costa Rican GNP gains / David R. Francis
A cornucopia of foods / Norman Myers
An earthly paradise regained / Mark Plotkin
Mexico's highway to hell / Wendy Call
Fight for the forest: building bridges / Chico Mendes
Alternatives to forest destruction: lessons from the Mêbêngôkre Indians / Darrel A. Posey
U.S. drug firm signs up to farm tropical forests / William Booth
Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity / A.B. Cunningham
Alternative rainforest uses / John O. Browder
Debt-for-nature swaps: who really benefits? / Rhona Mahoney
Reefs, rainforests, caves, ruins, and rookeries / David Rains Wallace
Ecotourism and the political ecology of "sustainable development" in Costa Rica / Susan E. Place
Petén crafts a future / Kathyrn Stafford.
