Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The tropical rain-forest setting / Julie Sloan Denslow -- Tropical rain-forest images / Francis E. Putz and N. Michele Holbrook -- The prehistory of Amazonia / Betty J. Meggers -- The prehistory of the Asian rain forests / Karl L. Hutterer -- Indians of the Amazonian forest / Robert L. Carneiro -- Hill people of northern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter -- Hunters and farmers of the African forest / David S. Wilkie -- People of the floodplain and forest / Christine Padoch -- The Indonesian transmigrants / Gloria Davis -- Following the Amazonian highways / Emilio F. Moran -- Big business in the Amazon / Marianne Schmink -- The logging industry in tropical Asia / Malcolm Gillis -- A question of sustainable use / Peter S. Ashton -- Perspective on conservation in Indonesia / Setijati Sastrapradja -- The new great age of clearance and beyond / Harold C. Brookfield.
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