| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Book Review

Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management. Edited by Michael Bonnell and Sampruno Bruijnzeel. International Hydrology Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvvii+925 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. $300.

When certain books are published there is a sense that they will be the authoritative work in their fields for a good long time. Such is the case with Forest, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. At nearly ten pounds, having almost a thousand pages, and costing $300 U.S., the book will be the standard text in the field of hydrological research in the tropical world for many years to come. Thus, it is not an exaggeration that the publisher has advertised the book to be "the most comprehensive review available of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them" (p. i).

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