@inbook{593,
  keywords = {deforestation, Latin America, congresses, forestry, rainforests, history, forest ecology},
  author = {Silvia del Amo R and Harold K. Steen and Richard P. Tucker},
  title = {Problems of forest conservation: A feasible mechanism for biodiversity conservation},
  abstract = {In traditional systems, genetic biodiversity is maintained both through cultural intervention and through natural selection. On the other hand, traditional cultivars have a twofold value that make them worth preserving: as germplasm repositories that can eventually be inserted into modern crops, and as a complex genetic bank adapted to specific environment conditions. To people living in developing countries, these cultivars have an additional value -- to allow production for self-subsistence where modern crops are either not available or not adequate.},
  year = {1992},
  journal = {Changing tropical forests: Historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forestry History Group, San José, Costa Rica},
  pages = {154-164},
  month = {12/1991},
  publisher = {Forest History Society},
  address = {Durham, NC},
  isbn = {0-8223-1247-6},
  url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311396291},
  language = {English},
}