Description: A readable history of how Costa Rica established a national park system as a response to rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems.
Brief description: Sterling Evans teaches environmental history at Humboldt State University in northern California.
Review Quotes: Using a wide range of sources, including interviews, archives, and newspapers, Evans paints a complex and nuanced picture of how conservation emerged in twentieth-century Costa Rica....This lucid and thoughtful work will be useful to historians and policymakers, and as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses on agriculture, development, and conservation in Latin America.-- "Hispanic American Historical Review" (8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM)