Varzea: Diversity, Development, & Conservation. Adv Econ Bot (13)

For centuries, the Várzea has been an important area for resource extraction, agriculture, and settlement. The annual floods that make these lands agriculturally desirable also make them difficult to exploit by modern agricultural methods. This book covers five of today's most pressing issues facing the Várzea: fish and fisheries; forests and forestry; conservation; soils and river dynamics; and land resources management.