Overview
- Interdisciplinary approach on the issue of rainforest protection based on recent empirical research
- Special focus on stability/destabilization of forest margins in Indonesia
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)
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Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and provision of high quality wa ter, which cannot be replaced by alternative ecosystems. However, various forms of encroachment, mostly those made by human interventions, seriously threaten the continuance of rainforests in this area. There is ample evidence that the rainforest resources, apart from large scale commercial logging, are exposed to danger particularly from its margin areas. These areas, which are characterized by intensive man-nature interaction, have been identified as extremely fragile systems. The dynamic equilibrium that bal ances human needs and interventions on the one hand, and natural regeneration capacity on the other, is at stake. The decrease of rainforest resources is, to a sub stantial degree, connected with the destabilization of these systems. Accordingly, the search for measures and processes, which prevent destabilization and promote stability is regarded as imperative. This refers to both the human and the natural part of the forest margin ecosystem.
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Table of contents (29 papers)
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Front Matter
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Social and Economic Development and Change
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Biodiversity and Conservation
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia
Editors: Gerhard Gerold, Michael Fremerey, Edi Guhardja
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08237-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00603-9Published: 12 November 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05617-8Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-08237-9Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 533
Topics: Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Biogeosciences, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Geoecology/Natural Processes