A destructive twentieth century: the rising consciousness -- Monitoring tropical rainforest trends: a tortuous exercise -- Global and regional deforestation patterns -- The root causes of deforestation and forest degradation -- Forest transition: modest hopes -- Rainforest biodiversity: treasures without price tags -- Rainforest conservation: impressive results -- are they enough? -- Climate change in the twenty-first century: the end of rainforests? The twenty-first century: decisive for the tropical rainforests!
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"[The author] brings together information from remote imaging, ecology, and economics to explain deforestation and forest health through the world"--Front jacket flap.