Volume 38, Number 5 · March 7, 1991
The Tragedy of the Amazon
By Kenneth Maxwell
The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas
edited by Mark Collins, foreword by David Attenborough
Oxford University Press, 200 pp., $29.95
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide
by Louise H. Emmons, illustrated by François Feer
University of Chicago Press, 281 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn
Verso, 266 pp., $24.95
World Resources, 1990–1991: A Guide to the Global Environment
a Report by the World Resources Institute
Oxford University Press, 383 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region
by Dennis J. Mahar
The World Bank, 56 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajás Programme
by Anthony L. Hall
Manchester University Press, 295 pp., $45.00
The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest
by Adrian Cowell
Holt, 215 pp., $19.95
Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush
by David Cleary
University of Iowa Press, 245 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest
edited by Anthony B. Anderson
Columbia University Press, 281 pp., $65.00
If 1989 was the year of revolution in Eastern Europe, 1988 was the year of drought and fire in the Americas. It was a year of growing public concern about global warming, with dire projections of melting ice caps and ozone depletion. It was a year of dramatic images of the charred remnants of once majestic forests from the Rockies to the Amazon basin. For the first time the destruction of the tropical rainforest of Brazil became a major issue for North Americans and for people concerned about the danger to the environment throughout the world. But how did this vast ecological disaster occur? What can be done to deal with its effects?
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