new areas brought under cultivation once tropical jungles were destroyed. Cattle ranching Brazil expanded and transformed cattle ranching, starting at the turn of the twentieth century. Traditional cattle ranching counted on extensive pasturage and few human interventions, so that cattle were feral and bred without animal husbandry. The importation from South Asia of zebu, a resilient cattle breed suited for the tropics, was a significant investment, not just for the animals themselves, but for the development of a managed cattle industry in a part of Minas Gerais. See also Agroecology in Latin America Forests of Mexico Deforestation in Brazil Latin American economy List of environmental issues References Further reading General Boyer, Christopher R., ed. (2012) A Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2012. Carey Mark. "Latin American Environmental History: Current Trends, Interdisciplinary Insights, and Future Directions." Environmental History, April 2009, Vol. 14, No. 2 (APRIL 2009), pp. 221–252. Carruthers, David V., ed. (2008) Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise and Practice. MIT Press. Crosby, Alfred W. (1972) The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Publishing Co. Crosby, Alfred W. (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge University Press. Davis, M. (2001) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso. Faber, Daniel. (1993) Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Latin America. New York: Monthly Review Press. Gade, D. (1999) Nature and Culture in the Andes. University of Wisconsin Press. Grove, Richard H. (1995). Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Leal, Claudia, José Augusto Pádua, and John Soluri (eds.), “New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean,” RCC Perspectives 2013, no. 7. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5921. Martínez-Alier, Joan. (2002) The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar. McNeill, J.R. (1999). "Ecology, Epidemics, and Empires: Environmental Change and the Geopolitics of Tropical America, 1600-1825." Environment and History 5 (1999): 175–84. McNeill, J.R. (2000) Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. WW Norton Miller, Shawn William. (2007). An Environmental History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Ouweneel, Arij. (1996) Shadows over Anáhuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800. University of New Mexico Press. Roberts, J. T. and N.D. Thanos. (2003) Trouble in Paradise: Globalization