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Paperback. Condition: Good. With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as the green republic. In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and the grand contradiction that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part I, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as the green republic. In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and the grand contradiction that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part I, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.…

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding tight.Cover clean.Hardcover.Dust Jacket included and in fair condition. Minor wear to page edges and corners. Minor marking to text.

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Condition: New. Blairstone, Matt (illustrator).

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Soft Cover Edition. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. This anthology contains: The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti; On the Slab by Harlan Ellison; Shaft Number 247 by Basil Copper; 24 Views of Mr. Fuji by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny; The Faces At Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell; His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite; The Big Fish by Kim Newman; I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket but by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life by Joanna Russ; Black Man with a Horn by T.E.D. Klein; Love's Eldritch Ichor by Esther M. Friesner; The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson; Pickman's Modem by Lawrence Watt-Evans; The Adder by Fred Chappell; Fat Face by Michael Shea; H.P.L. by Gahan Wilson; The Unthinkable by Bruce Sterling; The Shadow on the Doorstep by James P. Blaylock; and Lord of the Land by Gene Wolfe. Size: 8vo. Bob Eggleton; (illustrator). Book.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Blairstone, Matt (illustrator).

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Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789386349651.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Edition Unstated. Book is in Fine Condition. Text appears to be clean. Cover may have some wear from storage. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 3. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; ISBN: 0826498507. ISBN/EAN: 9780826498502. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561044396. …

Paper. Condition: Good. Good copy paper ex. cat. complied by Evelyn M. King, Donald H. Dyal, Charles R. Smith, 24 pp, 1 pp preface, 2 pp intro signed by Jeff Dykes, 1 pp list of biblios, lists 70 books, 5 B/W illus 1 double page. Limited to 200 copies.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950volume. Book.