RACE TO SAVE THE

242 Pages·2000·10.79 MB·English

by  World Bank Group

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Ecologya nd Economics
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Race to save the tropics : ecology and economics for a sustainable future /
edited by Robert Goodland.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.
ISBN 1-55963-039-6. - ISBN 1-55963-040-X (alk. paper)
1. Environmental policy-Economic aspects-Developing countries.
2. Tropics-Economic conditions. 3. Rain forest ecology-Economic
aspects-Developing countries. I. Goodland, Robert J. A., 1939- .
HC59.72.E5R33 1990
333.7'0913-dc2O 89-71677
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Manufactured in the United States of America
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IN MEMORIAM
FranciscoM endes Filbo
"ChicoM endes"
Brazilian rubber-tapper leader, assassinated
on December 22, 1988. He gave his life
uniting indigenous peoples,
the landless poor, and conservationists
against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.