A canary for the world: a Nicaragua environmental primer / Jerry Mueller

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Nicaragua's natural forest Types, pacific zone, central highlands, Atlantic zone, history of Deforestation in Pacific and Central Nicaragua, History of Deforestation on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, Nicaragua Forests During the Sandinista Years, agrarian reform and the agriculture! Frontier, the Contra War Atlantic Coast Autonomy; after the Revolution: Nicaragua's Forests in the 1990s the post-war land scram, renewed Activity along the Agriculture! Frontier, l 990s Logging Concessions, beyond concession: a "Lumber Mafia", natural (and human) disasters, the Invisible hand globalization and feforestation, planter the Atlantic biological corridor, impacts of forest Loss in Nicaragua, looking ahead: What can be done for Nicaragua's forests? solidarity with the Nicaraguan Grassroots, support for Nicaragua' s indigenous people, promotion of Economic Alterative, reform, of the Global Economic Order, massive Reforestation, Gold Mining in Nicaragua; History of Gold Mining in Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Gold Mining in the 1990s , Gold Mining, Nicaragua's Natural Environment, and Human Health, declaration from the peoples' gold summit, a canal across Nicaragua: history of an idea, present day canal proposals, potential ecological impacts of a Río San Juan-Lake Nicaragua Canal, response of Nicaraguan civil society, summary the dry canal, Nicaragua, and the global economy

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