Conserving tropical rainforest ecosystems; assessing coverage and assigning priorities
The main thesis of this paper is than conservation of natural ecosystems can only be acieved through a total commitment of society. ;Through enlightened management, yield can be enchanced to the limits of natural energy laws but not further if renewability of natural resources is to be maintained. Conservation goals cannot be attained eiter through needless exploitation of ecosystems (which generally ignores human needs). The rates and causes of tropical deforestation are reviewed and because some forest are being cleared to satisfy the needs of landless people, it is considered impreative to incorporate people's needs in plans to conserve the tropical forest resource. The paper suggests that MAB's priority in the tropics should be toward the development of model land uses in biosphere reserves and the promotion of the conservation ethic into the social fabric.
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Format: | biblioteca |
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URSS
1984
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Subjects: | CONSERVACION, RECURSOS NATURALES, |
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