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Tropical Deforestation
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Tropical Deforestation
This paper discusses the destruction of tropical forests: Rate, causes and local and global effects on environment and human life.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1994
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"The destruction of tropical forests has long been a source of alarm to professional ecologists and environmental activists, and increasingly it has become a matter of public concern in Western industrial nations. Citizens of industrialized nations often respond to the issue of tropical deforestation as if they are teaching backward people how to cope with their ecosystem. One reason for this attitude is the perception that deforestation is the result of innumerable individual decisions that are rational on a small scale (e.g., subsistence farming, ranching, or lumbering for profit) but that have consequences that are irrational on the large scale (e.g., alteration of hydrological patterns, effects on global climate, or reduction of biodiversity). The basic problem of tropical deforestation is seen in the fact that habitat destruction in the tropical rain ... "More papers on Tropical Deforestation:
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Tropical Deforestation (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Tropical-Deforestation/21623
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"Tropical Deforestation" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Tropical-Deforestation/21623>
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