Tropical Forest Conservation

Part I: Deforestation and its causes and the challenge of sustainable forest-based activities 1. Deforestation in the American Tropics: the regional and global stakes 2. The causes of excessive habitat destruction 3. Putting an end to ecosystem depletion Part II: The economic returns of environmentally sound harvesting of forest products and of nature-based tourism 4. Harvesting of nontimber products 5. Environmentally sound timber production 6. Genetic prospecting 7. Nature-based tourism Part III. Key elements of an integrated strategy for habitat protection and economic progress 8. Another approach to habitat conservation: agricultural intensification 9. Paying for habitat conservation and investing in human and social capital