Defending Forests
(see also Deforestation & Environmental Defense)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
National Resources Defense Council.
In the Library: Articles
Budowski, G. "Why save tropical rain forests? Some arguments for campaigning conservationists," Amazoniana 4 (1976):529-38.
Caulfield, Catherine. "The rain forests," New Yorker (1/14/85).
Ecologist. "Tropical forests: a plan for action" [1987], in S.E. Place (ed.) Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature & Society in Transition (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993), pp. 97-102.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Anderson, Anthony B. Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest (NY: Columbia, 1990).
Banuri, Tariq & Frederique Apffel Marglin (eds.) Living with the Forests: Knowledge, Power & Environmental Destruction (London: Verso, 1993).
Berkmuller, Klaus. Environmental Education about the Rainforest (Ann Arbor: U. Michigan, 1984).
Caufield, Catherine. In the Rainforest (NY: Knopf, 1985).
Edlin, Herbert L. Trees & Man (NY: Columbia, 1976).
__________. The Natural History of Trees (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1976).
Head, Suzanne & Robert Heinzman (eds.) Lessons of the Rainforest (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1990). Essays for activists.