Dreams of Amazonia

History

Stone, Roger D.

Americas

Penguin??Books

The fragile ecological balance of the world's largest tropical rain forest is discussed, and suggestions for heightening its economic viability, as well as its preservation, are offered

Dreams of Amazonia: Revised Edition

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Stone set off in the summer of 1986 from Camden, Maine, in a 38-foot cutter called Sanderling , heading south. In April 1988, he and his crew completed the 8,000-mile cruise that took them all the way to Rio. Their goal was to assess, from a firsthand perspective, the environmental crisis afflicting the entire Atlantic coast of North and South America. This is his account of that odyssey. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Voyage of the Sanderling: An Atlantic Odyssey

KNOPF

A few years ago, Roger Stone undertook a formidable challenge: to travel to representative villages in the tropical corners of the developing world to see how and whether economic development plans had improved the quality of the people's lives while also preserving each region's rich plant and animal life. In The Nature of Development, Stone reports on his findings and offers a lively prescription for sustainable economic growth that is environmentally sane and economically sound. By commercial and missionary airplane, bus, off-road vehicle, and dugout canoe--and of course by means of wearying foot journeys--Roger Stone reached his far-flung destinations all over Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Once there, he lived, walked, and talked at length with many diverse peoples: the Awa of Ecuador and Colombia; the Oku, who live near Kilum Mountain in Cameroon; the Hatam of the Arfak Mountains in Indonesia's Irian Jaya province; the resourceful, if underequipped, wardens of Zambia's national park service; the fishermen and farmers of a St. Lucia that Caribbean tourists seldom discover. While in the Amazon basin, he found sad tales of people without a future and of relentless environmental losses. More often, though, he returned with stories of hope and encouragement. For, as The Nature of Development shows, conservation and economic-development agencies can work together, and the governments of poor and rich countries alike can cooperate to improve human lives and stop disastrous ecological losses in the world's richest habitats. As new imperatives replace the global preoccupation with warfare and reckless modes of development, Stone's book carries a resonant and important message about how we have mistreated our habitats in the past and how we can achieve a new environmental world order.

The Nature of Development: A Report from the Rural Tropics on the Quest for Sustainable Economi

Business & Money

Economics

Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit: Journeys to the Brink of Hope

Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals. In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland.This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.

D'Andrea, Claudia

University of California Press

The fragile ecological balance of the world's largest tropical rain forest is discussed, and suggestions for heightening its economic viability, as well as its preservation, are offered

Biographies & Memoirs

Viking Adult

Voyage of the Sanderling: Exploring the Ecology of the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Rio

Biological Sciences

Vintage

The amazing story of the transformation of the Hudson River; a tale of environmental, economic, cultural and political success.

Mightier Hudson: The Spirited Revival Of A Treasured Landscape

LYONS PRESS+

Wildlands and Human Needs: Reports from the Field

World Wildlife Fund

From the strange juxtaposition of the supersonic Concorde and the glossy ibis on the outskirts of Kennedy airport - not to mention their uncanny similarity in profile - to the pastel golfers and ruddy turnstones of the Hampton;s Sebonac Creek, Roger Stone's incisive book challenges the conventional wisdom that the balance between a vibrant economy and a healthy environment is a zero-sum game. Rather, he argues, Long Island's competitive economic advantage is its environmental quality. Aboard the elderly sailboat, Piper, Stone embarks on a modern-day voyage of discovery. In circumnavigating Long Island he seeks not riches or new lands, but a new vision for this well-worn region's future. Transcending the broadaxe frontier psychology that has ruled the country's development for so long, he charts innovative routes toward a more stable, environmentally based economy. Three hundred years of rampant exploitation of the island's once plentiful natural resources, coupled with unbridled, unplanned development has not led to the promised land so loudly ballyhooed by political leaders, but to a region groaning under a confiscatory tax burden, the highest energy costs in the nation and a seesaw economy more prone to bust than boom. But all is far from lost. The island's species diversity remains high, the beaches are splendid, the fishing is good and the climate continues to be modulated by the passing Gulf Stream. And most importantly, Long Island's people are waking up to their own strength. In this well-researched and hopeful book, Stone contends that pressure for change comes almost always from without the halls of entrenched power, and that an involved, organized citizenry is essential to promote new and better policies. He urges people everywhere to band together to seize the wheel of their own ship, as Long Island and the nation set sail towards a more rational future. --- from book's flyleaf

Fairtide: Sailing Toward Long Island's Future

Reference

Waterline Books

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