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“…Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. …”

“…"First study written from a regional perspective of economic history of the central Peruvian forest from 17th century to present. The process of constituting regional space and economic articulation involved pioneer colonists, highland colonists, and indigenous peoples (Amuesha and Ashaninca, who had to integrate themselves economically as a strategy of resistance and survival). …”

“…Several examples of microbial systems employed for the valorization of waste streams derived by the forest, agricultural, and food industries or the use of whole-cell or enzyme approaches for the removal of nitrogen or dyes from industrial wastewaters are provided. …”

“…Anthropic activities, like inappropriate agricultural practices, deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires and construction activities, may exert a remarkable impact on erosion processes or, on the other hand, contribute to soil erosion mitigation through a sustainable management of natural resources. …”

“…The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the local population was able to articulate rapidly with the economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. …”

“…This book focuses on the diversity and biotechnological applications of metabolites produced by extremophilic microbes thriving in different ecological niches citing the low troposphere, the gastrointestinal tract of ruminants, tropical dry forest, and saline ecosystems. These studies were based on metabolomics and molecular approaches like metagenomics and single-cell genomic analyses. …”

“…The result in Indonesia is that ancient rain forests are having to make way for palm oil plantations to satisfy the new demand from Europe and elsewhere…”

“…A cascade of water pouring from glaciers and a lake in the high mountains, a water fall tumbling from high up into the valley, a chain of lakes at the base of 10,000-foot peaks, rocky chasms disgorging the torrent, drawn-out gravel banks and mudflats, undercut banks and river bends, and extensive riparian forests at the river’s lower reaches: the Inn has many faces to show and an interesting tale to tell. …”
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“…Despite a recent storm of human progress, it has kept much of its beauty and remains one of the world’s most surprising wildlife hotspots. Its forested highlands are still home to bears, monkeys, anteaters, and a huge variety of little known creatures such as ferret badgers, flying squirrels, serows and civets. …”