VANISHING RAIN FORESTS by S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh ( 9780198549598 )

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Title:

VANISHING RAIN FORESTS
THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN MALAYSIA

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ISBN 10:

0198549598

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9780198549598

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 December, 1995

Series:

Oxford Biogeography Series 5

Pages:

220

Description:

Vanishing Rain Forests provides an environmental insight into Malaysia - one of the world's most biologically diverse regions. It considers what has been done to conserve the region's natural wealth and recommends changes to help develop a more sustainable future.

Synopsis:

Malaysia is one of the world's most biologically diverse regions, but in recent years vast tracts of its forests have been cleared or degraded, with serious human and environmental consequences. Vanishing Rain Forests explores four closely related themes: first, it describes the country's forests and the remarkable abundance and diversity of their flora and fauna; secondly, it outlines the processes and policies by which human activity has altered these forests since the early nineteenth century; thirdly, it examines some of the environmental, biological, and cultural consequences of such changes both past and present; and finally, it looks at what has been done to conserve the region's natural wealth and recommends changes that could put Malaysia on the path to a more sustainable future. Throughout the book the need for a historical perspective is underscored.

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8 pp plates, line figures, tables

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Oxford University Press

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