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Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488488
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Author : Sue Tidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Big game hunting
ISBN : 1737903903
A non-hunter shares her eye-opening experiences on a hunting safari andinvites readers to reconsider what it will take to save Africa's wildlife. Waking to her husband's alarmed whisper, "Honey, get ready to run" was never in Sue Tidwell's vision of Africa. Nor was skulking through the Tanzanian bush or lying terror-stricken as the cries of lions and hyenas cut through the walls of her tent. Enchanted by African wildlife, she certainly never expected to find herself a sidekick on a hunting safari. Growing up in a deer hunting family, she understood hunting's role in American conservation. Still, the idea of hunting Africa's exotic animals was deeply troubling. Aren't many species endangered? Isn't photo-tourism a better way to protect lions and elephants? Her boots-on-the-ground view answered these questions and many more; it captured her soul and lit a fire in her gut, fueling a passion the opposite of what she expected. Through stories of laughter, tragedy, and wonder, readers will be immersed in adventure as Sue's curiosity sheds light on the struggles and complexities facing the people and wildlife of rural Africa. Whether an animal lover, conservationist, wanderer, adventurer, or human rights advocate, her unexpected odyssey will arm readers with the awareness necessary to sustainably protect Africa's spectacular animals. Only then will the beastly cries of the savanna forever remain a part of the wild.
Author : Peter A. Furley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191026751
Savannas form one of the largest and most important of the world's ecological zones. Covering one fifth of the Earth's land surface, they are home to some of the world's most iconic animals and form an extremely important global resource for plants and wildlife. However, increasing recognition of their land potential means that they are extremely vulnerable to accelerating pressures on usable land. This Very Short Introduction considers savannas as landscapes. Discussing their origin, topography, and global distribution, Peter A. Furley explores the dynamic nature of savannas and illustrates how they have shaped human evolution and movements. He goes on to discuss the unrelenting pressures that confront conservation and management and considers the future for savannas. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Donald M. Silver
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0716765160
Examines a small portion of the African savannah and describes the life it supports
Author : Nicola Barber
Publisher : Raintree Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1406208221
This series explores the similarities of and differences between different cultures around the world.
Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107001510
Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.
Author : Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt,Sally Archibald,Norman Owen-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107031760
This book synthesises key insights from a century of ecological research and monitoring efforts in one of Africa's oldest protected areas.
Author : Leslie Maria Harris,Daina Ramey Berry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820344102
A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, it includes a mix of thematic essays focusing on individual people, events, and places.
Author : Robert J. Scholes,B. H. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637602753
Author : Bryan Shorrocks,William Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198702702
Savannah habitats comprise an ecologically important, but ultimately fragile, ecosystem. They constitute one of the largest biomes on Earth, covering almost 20% of the land surface, and can be simply described as tropical and subtropical grasslands with scattered bushes and trees. Most savannahs occur in Africa, although smaller areas can be found in South America, India, and Australia. They form a rich mosaic of diverse ecosystems, and this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to their ecology, biodiversity, and conservation. The Biology of African Savannahs describes the major plants (grasses, and trees such as Acacia) and animals (mainly large mammals) that live in this habitat, and examines the biological and ecological factors that influence their population size, interactions (such as predation), and community composition. Conservation issues such as climate change, hunting, and conflict between wildlife and domestic animals are also discussed. This new edition has been updated throughout with the latest research in the field, and contains new technique boxes which introduce readers to some of the analytical methods used to study African savannahs. This accessible text is suitable for both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in savannah and tropical ecology as part of a wider ecology and/or conservation biology degree programme. It will also be of relevance and use to the many professional ecologists and conservation practitioners requiring a concise but authoritative overview of the topic.
Author : Norman Owen-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108832595
Demonstrates how Africa's physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.
Author : Clive Alfred Spinage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1582 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642228728
In view of the rapidly changing ecology of Africa ,this work provides benchmarks for some of the major, and more neglected, aspects, with an accent on historical data to enable habitats to be seen in relation to their previous state, forming a background reference work to understanding how the ecology of Africa has been shaped by its past. Reviewing historical data wherever possible it adopts an holistic view treating man as well as animals, with accent on diseases both human and animal which have been a potent force in shaping Africa’s ecology, a role neglected in ecological studies.
Author : James Fairhead,Melissa Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521564999
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Author : R. J. Scholes,B. H. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521612101
Savannas cover approximately half of the African land surface and one fifth of the land surface of the world. They are one of the most important, but least understood terrestrial ecosystems. They are the basis of the African livestock industry and the wildlife they support is of key importance in bringing in tourists. The Nylsvley area in South Africa is one of the most intensively studied savanna regions in the world and as such it is a key source of data and theory relating to this important tropical biome. The South African Savanna Biome Programme was set up to develop the understanding necessary to predict changes in the ecosystem stability induced by both natural and man-made stresses. This book provides a synthesis of the programme's sixteen years of research at Nylsvley and aims to develop a unified vision of the ecology of the dry savanna.
Author : Martin Kalb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800734579
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.
