Industrial agriculture and ape conservation / / editors Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw.
Social and economic systems worldwide are changing rapidly. These changes are accompanied by an increasing demand for natural resources, including land, water, minerals, energy sources, food and timber. Today's foremost challenge lies in finding the tools to address the complexity of these inte...
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| Superior document: | State of the apes ; 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | State of the apes.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 334 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Notes to readers; Acknowledgments; Apes overview; Introduction; Part I. Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation: 1. Economic development and conservation of biodiversity: understanding the interface of ape conservation and industrial agriculture; 2. Encroaching on ape habitat: deforestation and industrial agriculture in Cameroon, Liberia and on Borneo; 3. From habitat to plantation: causes of conversion in sub-Saharan Africa; 4. Legal frameworks at the interface between industrial agriculture and ape conservation; 5. From process to impact of a voluntary standard: the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil; 6. Impacts of industrial agriculture on ape ecology; Part II. The Status and Welfare of Great Apes and Gibbons: 7. Ape populations over time: case studies from Gombe, Mount Halimun Salak, Sabangau and Wamba; 8. The status of captive apes; Annexes; Acronyms and abbreviations; Glossary; References; Index.