Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century

Thomas Rudel

Paper, 256 pages, 24 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13195-7
$37.50 / £22.00

October, 2005
Cloth, 256 pages, 24 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13194-0
$82.50 / £48.50

"It will serve as an excellent update... Highly recommended." — Choice

"Rudder's book is a work of outstanding scholarship." — Environmental Conservation

"Relevant to anyone with an interest in patterns of land use and change." — Southeastern Naturalist

"A lifetime of experience working with tropical forests is utilized in this book to provide an insightful assessment." — Harini Nagendra, Landscape Ecology

"Rudel's book synthesizes numerous case studies that have been conducted around the world on the causes of tropical deforestation. This is an important endeavor and Rudel makes a strong argument for what he calls a regional-level analysis of global deforestation. It will be of interest to people studying land-use and land-cover change as well as tropical deforestation." — Jefferson Fox, senior fellow at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Related Subjects

• Ecology
• Environmental Sciences

About the Author

Thomas K. Rudel is a professor in the departments of human ecology and sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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