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Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis – $545
by rgonzalezr
Published in 2002, Deforesting the Earth was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership.Deforestation—the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture—is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation’s effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, Deforesting the Earth is the preeminent […]
Categories: Actualidad, Clima, Climate, Earth, Ecología, environment • Tags: arboles, Bosques, conservation, deforestación, Deforestation, ecology, Environment, Environmentalism, forestry, Forests, medio amiente, Michael Williams, nature, plants, tala, University of Chicago Press