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Vanishing forest: the human consequences of deforestation : a report of the independent commission on International humanitarian issues - Hong Kong Arena Press 1986 - 89p. 20*13 cm

1. Humanitarian Aspects of Tropical Deforestation
- Health: The Front Line Deforestation and the Welfare of Mothers and Children
- Malnutrition: A Growing Problem
- Tribal Peoples: The Myth of the Vast Emptiness Migration and Displacement: ""We Can't Eat Houses""
- Fragile Lands: One Man's Poverty, Another Man's Disaster
- Fire: The Undeclared Disaster

2. The Tropical Forest: A Resource for People
- Types of Forest
- Tropical Deforestation: Reasons for Concern
- Tropical Moist Forests as a Genetic Reservoir
- Tropical Forests and World Climatic Regulation Types of Forest Conversion
- Six Humanitarian Situations

3. Towards Sound Forest Management
- Runway' and 'Treadmill' Deforestation
- Environmental Management for Major Forest Development Projects

ISBN: 9789627156024

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Forest management -- Tropics.
Human beings -- Tropics -- Influence of environment
Deforestation -- Social aspects -- Tropics

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7513 / IND