Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223).
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The making of a dissident -- Assessing the present -- Paradise fading -- The danger within -- Parks: the last bastions of nature -- Protecting biodiversity -- Preserving biodiversity for posterity -- Tropical forests: worth more dead than alive -- From wildlands to wasteland: land use and the mirage of sustainable development -- Why conservation in the tropics is failing: the need for a new paradigm -- Hard choices in the twenty-first century -- Nature, a global commons.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Using Manu National Park in the rain forest of Peru as a standard, the author addresses the multiple threats of civilization to the precarious state of the tropics. He "makes a compelling case that nature can be saved only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined."--Jacket.
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Title
Requiem for nature.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Nature conservation-- Tropics.
Protected areas-- Tropics.
Aires protégées-- Régions tropicales.
Nature-- Conservation-- Régions tropicales.
Artenreichtum
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Sustainable Development.