Conservation of Neotropical Forests : Working from Traditional Resource Use

Two of the great crises facing our generation are the destruction of the tropical forests and the widespread poverty of the tens of millions of rural people who live there."Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use" provides an information base for understanding the lowland Neotropical forest environment.

Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch have assembled a group of experts from both the natural and the social sciences to critically review existing data describing patterns of traditional resource use by inhabitants of Neotropical forests.

These contributors, innovators of the most promising work in cultural and biodiversity conservation, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of research to date.

Their identification of gaps in existing disciplinary and interdisciplinary work leads to potential new directions for research.