Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations and the World Paper EconomyIn its search for cheap wood to supply raw material, today's pulp and paper industry is throwing its net every wider across the world. One of the more disturbing results is the spread of fast-growing pulpwood plantations in the forests, pastures and farmlands of the South. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 2 |
Plantation imperialism | 8 |
Introducing Pulp and Paper | 16 |
Emergence of a Global System | 41 |
Impacts on People and their Environment | 60 |
Actors behind the Scenes | 87 |
Managing Resistance | 114 |
The Eucalyptus Pulp Giant | 147 |
Forests on the Grasslands | 186 |
A Fibre Exporter with Few Forests | 198 |
Deforestation and Repression | 211 |
From Reforestation to Contract Farming | 229 |
Looking to the Future | 246 |
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A Plantation Model Imposed by a Dictatorship | 169 |
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