Latin America & the Caribbean: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (World's Environments) (Hardcover)

Latin America & the Caribbean: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (World's Environments) By Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom Cover Image
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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean--from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands.

Home to Earth's longest mountain range, largest river, and greatest rainforest, no region boasts greater geographic extremes, faces greater environmental dangers, and enjoys more economic potential from its biodiversity than Latin America and the Caribbean.

What are the political and economic factors affecting the Amazon's rapidly disappearing rainforest? What is being done to harvest life-saving drugs from the plants of the Orinoco? And what lies behind the mysterious disappearance of Central America's frogs? The work includes essays, tables and figures, and an appendix titled International Environmental and Developmental Agencies, Organizations, and Programs on the World Wide Web. Latin America & the Caribbean examines a region waking up to its environmental problems and possibilities.

About the Author


Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom are professional writers. Their published works include all six volumes in ABC-CLIO's World Environments series.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781576076903
ISBN-10: 1576076903
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication Date: December 2nd, 2003
Pages: 296
Language: English
Series: World's Environments