The Green Republic

Name: The Green Republic
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SKU: 9780292721012
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A Conservation History of Costa Rica

Автор: Sterling Evans

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Texas Press

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With over 25 per cent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Sterling Evans

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1998

страници

335

EAN

9780292721012

ISBN

0292721013

Enbook ID

04872936

Издател

University of Texas Press

Теглоt

498

Размери

230 x 156 x 19

Пълно описание

With over 25 per cent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as 'the green republic'. In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken.In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and 'the grand contradiction' that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part II, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute. Sterling Evans teaches environmental history at Humboldt State University in northern California.

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