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17 verk 94 medlemmar 3 recensioner

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Inkluderar namnen: C.C. Park, Chris C. Park

Verk av Chris Park

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20th Century
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A valuable and mercifully compact statement of the essential features of tropical moist and wet forest (rainforest) the world over, including their ecology and distribution, biodiversity richness, economic and social values, their conservation (or rather destruction) status, and related aspects. The initial chapters are somewhat dense (which is why it has taken me an inordinate length of time to get through the book), and the reader may get through it easier by starting from the back, where the economic and political forces are dealt with. The matter as a whole makes for a very grim story, with portents of doom. It would be interesting to compare these grim prognostications with a present-day (2022) assessment. Incidentally, this is not a glossy coffee-table book, but one full of black-and-white graphs, tables, diagrams, and a few smudgy photographs of devastated tracts.… (mer)
 
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Dilip-Kumar | Dec 29, 2022 |
The following is the last paragraph from my book review of Sacred Worlds for my World Geography class in Spring 2003:

Sacred Worlds is a synthesis of academic studies for geographers to show them, in Park’s mind, that in “geography of religion” their studies are based on observation not theory. Park wanted to force geographers to see that all the empirical studies of “geography of religion” have basically taken place and what is now needed is theoretical studies by geographers. If a reader is a geography student who wants to devote their time to the “geography of religion” then this is a must read book. But I caution those who are not because it will be come burden to finish.… (mer)
 
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mattries37315 | Aug 6, 2013 |
Better than the Dictionary of Ecology of the same series.
 
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signature103 | May 14, 2008 |

Statistik

Verk
17
Medlemmar
94
Popularitet
#199,202
Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
3
ISBN
49

Tabeller & diagram