The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon - Paperback
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of...
Susanna Hecht is professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Tropical Odyssey of Euclides de Cunha, and coeditor of The Social Lives of Forests: Forest Recovery in the Past, Present and Future, both forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Alexander...
Edition
Updated Edition
Contributor(s)
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.