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  • THE SOCIAL LIVES OF FORESTS
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    THE SOCIAL LIVES OF FORESTS
    EDITED BY SUSANNA B. HECHT, KATHLEEN D. MORRISON, AND CHRISTINE PADOCH
    Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests’ past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coales...

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  • THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE AMAZON AND THE
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    THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE AMAZON AND THE "LOST PARADISE" OF EUCLIDES DA CUNHA
    SUSANNA B. HECHT
    The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In...

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  • THE FATE OF THE FOREST
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    THE FATE OF THE FOREST
    SUSANNA B. HECHT / ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gol...

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