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Author : Robert Goodland
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597268691
Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries.
Author : Goodland Robert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : LCCN:91000199
Author : National Film Network LLC
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0802601588
"Race To Save The Rainforest" is the Science & Nature Adventure game all about the world's tropical rainforests and what you can do to save them! The game is so much fun you don't even have to be interested in the rainforest to want to play it! What is the game about? Six rainforest animals have lost their homes to deforestation. The first player to help them find new homes in the neighboring rainforest before loggers cut it down, wins. To do this you will be competing with other players and yourself. You will be answering rainforest trivia questions, spinning the dial to save endangered species, and being subject to fate cards and rolls of the dice, all while trying to avoid poachers and burning forests. "Race To Save The Rainforest" can be played at varying levels of difficulty, making it a game for almost anyone.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : A Joseph Henry Press book
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309055840
"The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years." With those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (National Academy Press, 1988). Despite this and other such alarms, species continue to vanish at a rapid rate, taking with them their genetic legacy and potential benefits. Many disappear before they can even be identified. Biodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically. It explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity, including: New approaches to the integration of electronic data, including a proposal for a U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center. Application of techniques developed in the human genome project to species identification and classification. The Gap Analysis Program of the National Biological Survey, which uses layered satellite, climatic, and biological data to assess distribution and better manage biodiversity. The significant contribution of museum collections to identifying and categorizing species, which is essential for understanding ecological function and for targeting organisms and regions at risk. The book describes our growing understanding of how megacenters of diversity (e.g., rainforest insects, coral reefs) are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact. Biodiversity II reinforces the idea that the conservation of our biological resources is within reach as long as we pool resources; better coordinate the efforts of existing institutionsâ€"museums, universities, and government agenciesâ€"already dedicated to this goal; and enhance support for research, collections, and training. This volume will be important to environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, educators, students, and concerned individuals.
Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231513241
Ecological economics is a new transdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the ecology and economics of our world for sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. The previous isolation of these two fields has led to economic and environmental policies that have been mutually destructive rather than reinforcing in the long term. This book brings together these two disciplines in chapters covering the basic worldview of ecological economics; accounting, modeling, and analysis of ecological economicl systems; and necessary institutional changes and case studies.
Author : Kenton Miller,Laura Tangley
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0807085057
Staggering statistics and dramatic headlines about the destruction of rain forests, the world's richest ecosystems, are only a small part of the devastating story of global deforestation. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of this complex scientific and political catastrophe-in-the-making and examines the costs and the consequences, in human, economic, and ecological terms. Also, a survey of both contemporary and historical assaults on the world's forests, along with their impact on the dependency of native peoples and cultures, is chronicled. Specifically, within developing nations, the relationships among poverty, population growth, and short-sighted government policies are calculated to be fundamental elements in the acceleration of tropical deforestation. With a special section on North America's old-growth forests, a glossary of special terms, an account of both the importance and relevance of arboreal genetic diversity, an extended list of suggested readings, and appendices listing international and federal organizations which offer educational materials for both individual and classroom use, this book offers important practical resources, and makes clear the social, economic, and biological costs of continued global deforestation. (JJK)
Author : Waltraud Ernst,Bernard Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134676446
Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.
Author : Jean Albrecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : WISC:89050734938
Author : James S. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317117735
In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN : UOM:39015023772612
Author : Gert H. J. Kema,Andre Drenth,Miguel Dita,Kees Jansen,Sietze Renze Vellema,Jetse Stoorvogel
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889664849
Author : David William Pearce
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048737962
This is a selection of recent essays from an author established in the environmental economics field. The book explains the development of Pearce's career in the subject; shows how environmental economics can play a part in policy-making; and argues against some other schools of thought.
Author : Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Publisher : Wallingford : CAB International
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037472977
Global interest in forest conservation, biodiversity preservation, and non-timber values has risen while pressures on the forest as a source of income and employment have also increased. These demands are often conflicting, making forest planning, allocation and policy formation very complex. This volume explores theoretical and applied issues surrounding forest resource allocation. The book is divided into three main subject areas: 1) tropical forests-environment, economics and trade, 2) non-timber valuation-theory and application, and 3) ecosystem management. The first of these focuses on tropical forests, reflecting the fact that global environmental concerns surrounding these regions are often in conflict with local economic objectives. The second section examines non-timber values, which are important in planning and policy decisions, but are also very controversial. The third group of chapters consider ecosystem management, a concept that promotes the use of forest harvesting practices that mimic natural disturbance patterns. Overall, the book will be of interest to readers in forestry and environmental economics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : WISC:89081593691
