Vanishing Rain Forests: The Ecological Transition in Malaysia

by Leigh Aiken, Robert S. Aiken, S. Robert Aiken, et al.

Malaysia is one of the world's most biologically diverse regions, but in recent years vast tracts of its forests have been cleared or degraded, with serious human and environmental consequences. Vanishing Rain Forests explores four closely related themes: first it describes the country's forests and the remarkable abundance and diversity of their flora and fauna; secondly, it outlines the processes and policies by which human activity has altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198549598
• ISBN13: 9780198549598
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.7"