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The ways and patterns in which the world’s tropical rain forests are degraded, are manifold and complex. A multitude of factors are involved; we will first review them, with an occasional word of explanation. We then will discuss some of the more important ones: collection of minor forest products, timber extraction, silvicultural measures, shifting cultivation, planned destruction; and then we will comment on consequences and causes. A comprehensive, well-illustrated chapter on human impact was given by Boerboom and Wiersum(1983).
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Plumwood and Routley (1982) bagatellize population growth as a major cause of deforestation. Rather, they blame certain governments and multi-national corporations, who open up and destroy forest for their own political and financial purposes, which are opposed to, or which negate the rights of the peasants to justice and equal distribution of land. The rain forests thus are enlisted for the political arguments of Plumwood and Routley.
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Jacobs, M. (1988). Damage and Destruction. In: Kruk, R. (eds) The Tropical Rain Forest. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72793-1_17
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