Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos : National Academy Press, 1983.

ix, 52 p. : il. ; 23 cm.

Innovations in Tropical Reforestation

1. Introduction and summary. -- 2. Calliandra and java's greening movement. -- 3. The plant. -- 4. Production and management. -- 5. Production and applications. -- 6. Recommendations and research needs. --

Tomado de la introducción: Overexploitation, misuse, and poor management have significantly depleted what was once one o earth's most abundant natural resources: its forests. Today forests are being converted to other uses at the rate of nearly 11.3 million hectares a year, with most of the loss-7.5 million hectares-occurring in the humid tropical regions of the Third World. Many nations in the humid tropics now confront the economic, social, and ecological problems caused by deforestation. A 1982 United Nations survey revealed that the close tropical forest are declining at annual rates of 4-2 million hectares in Latin America, 1.8 millio hectares in Asia, and 1-3 millio hectares in Africa. The decline is uneven. Some tropical forests are only slightly disturbed, but many others face extinction. For example, deforestation in Africa ranges from 0.2 percent a year in Zaire to 10 percent in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast. In Latin America the annual deforestation rate is 0.4 percent in Brazil and Venezuela, but 3-7 percent in Costa Rica. And in Asia the loss of the forests each year ranges from 0.5 percent in Indonesia to 4.3 percent in Nepal.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (Pp. 39-40) e índice.