Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America: Management in Latin America

This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in underdeveloped and poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. The contributors propose an alliance of scientific knowledge with native skill as the best way to proceed, arguing that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822957035
• ISBN13: 9780822957034
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"