Pulping the south: Industrial tree plantations and world paper economy.
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TextPublication details: London : Zed Books, 1996.Subject(s): - Pulp and Paper Industry
- Pulp -- Forestry -- Forestry resources. -- Pulp -- Forestry -- Forestry resources. -- Pulp -- Forestry -- Forestry resources
- Pulpwood crops -- Southern Hemisphere -- Pulpwood crops -- Southern Hemisphere
- Tree farms -- Southern Hemisphere -- Tree farms -- Southern Hemisphere
- Paper industry
- SD356.35.S68 Car 1996
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This book shows how the new plantations are contributing to impoverishment of people; degradation of soil, water and biodiversity; and rural strife in countries as diverse as Chile, South Africa and Indonesia. It analyses the forces behind the plantation boom, explaining how industry associations, forestry consultants, aid agencies, suppliers of heavy machinery, banks and research institutes construct grids through which demand is stimulated, subsidies captured, risks thrown on to loacal people and their resistance contained.
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