Insatiable Appetite

Insatiable Appetite PDF

Author: Richard P. Tucker

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 0520220870

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Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes.

Tropical Forests

Tropical Forests PDF

Author: J. Borota

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0444599584

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This publication deals with the composition and structure of both natural and artificially established tropical forests. After a general introduction, the role of tropical forests in the production of timber is discussed. Attention is then given to the structure of natural tropical forests, especially in Congo, Gabon, Ghana and Laos. The structure of artificially established forests is dealt with in another chapter. At the end, information is given on the thinning of such forest stands in Tanzania.

Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest insects of Ghana

Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest insects of Ghana PDF

Author: Michael R. Wagner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9401579369

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It is a great honor and indeed a privilege for me to write the Foreword to this book, the first of its kind from the Forest Products Research Institute The study of forest insects is now becoming a matter of great concern to many people all over the world because insects damage the already depleted forests and forest resources. In Ghana very little interest was shown in the insects of forest trees and products. But as forest practices have become more intensive so also have the pests on the crops increased and the damage caused increased to alarming proportions. Foresters are now becoming in creasingly aware of the immense havoc that some of these insects can cause. To aid the fight against the pests they have to be fully identified and studied so that effective control measures can be implemented. It is in an effort to bridge this gap in our knowledge that one welcomes this book by Professor Michael R. Wagner, Dr. S.K.N. Atuahene and Dr.