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The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People [Paperback]

Nigel J. H. Smith (Author)

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Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: OUP USA (15 April 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0195126831
ISBN-13: 978-0195126839
Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.7 x 1.2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,852,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Author Smith is indeed a rainforest expert, but also writes in an engaging manner...This book is recommended very highly because of its unique coverage and slant. Biologists, political scientists, sociologists, and professionals involved in policy making, sustainable development, and saving rainforests will find this book most useful. Good illustrations."--Choice
"[The Amazon River Forest] was a pleasure to read - intriguing, thoughtful, and well balanced."--Sally Adkins, River Network

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The floodplain forest of the Amazon is the last major agricultural frontier of the Americas. This unique habitat, inundated in some places to a depth of thirty feet a year, contains a marvellous variety of plant and animal resources that inhabitants have long reaped--fruit, nuts, building materials, fuelwood, and medicinal plants. While the floodplain has great potential for food production, its natural resource base is becoming increasingly threatened by ranching and agricultural expansion and impaired by inappropriate land-use practices. This important book, based both on field observations carried out over the past quarter century and historical material, demonstrates that knowledge possessed by area dwellers offers vital insights for promoting the sound economic development of the floodplain. Nigel Smith argues for the importance of balance between land-use systems, and suggests that research and development should be realigned to incorporate both modern science and traditional systems. Beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs, this authoritative volume explores a broad range of ecological, historical, cultural, and socioeconomic issues, and offers practical suggestions for developing the floodplain that enhance, rather than destroy, biodiversity.

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With global demand for agricultural products expected to double or even triple within the next fifty years, productivity of existing crops and grazing lands will have to be intensified dramatically. Read the first page

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