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Author : David Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429949784

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Tropical Bioproductivity by David Hammond Pdf

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people. The book examines the basic astronomical and thermal properties of our planet to illustrate the dynamic nature of the tropics and how the region resides at the very heart of global energetics, driving the environmental flows that shape planetary climate and bioproductivity. The author explores how the region’s relatively small, but hyper-productive, land area provided the groundswell for the economic, social, political and demographic changes that fuelled empires, European colonialism and nation-building. Also covered are discussions on how the critical intake of capital needed to fuel the industrial and technological revolutions driving modern globalization was first expropriated from the tropics by harnessing the region’s natural productivity and biological crop diversity and then transforming it into tradeable commodities using the inhabitants' labour and knowledge. With modern tropical nations accounting for the bulk of people living in poverty and registering some of the highest income disparities, the author presents cross-cutting evidence showing that their histories and the persistence of expropriating institutions have fostered anocratic tendencies, poor governance, unorthodox financial flows and mass migration. Tropical Bioproductivity cuts across vast geographies, topics and histories to deliver a readable narrative that links people, places and events with the environmental mechanics of our planet. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of environmental studies, economics, history, agriculture, anthropology and geography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5NVV

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Library of Universal Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard T. Corlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192549037

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The Ecology of Tropical East Asia by Richard T. Corlett Pdf

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its forest cover to agriculture and urbanization, and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics. Habitat loss, coupled with hunting and the relentless trade in wildlife products, threatens all its large and many of its smaller vertebrates. Despite these problems, the region still supports an estimated 15-25% of global terrestrial biodiversity and a growing environmental awareness means that it is no longer assumed that economic development justifies environmental damage, and no longer accepted that this trade-off is inevitable. Effective conservation action now depends on integrating a clear understanding of the ecological patterns and processes in the region with the varied needs of its human population. This third edition continues to provide an overview of the terrestrial ecology of Tropical East Asia: from southern China to Indonesia, and from Bhutan and Bangladesh to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. It retains the balance between compactness and comprehensiveness of the previous editions, and the even-handed geographical treatment of the whole region, but it updates both the contents and the perspective. Approximately one third of the text is new or greatly modified, reflecting the explosion of new research in the region in the last few years and the increasing use of new tools, particularly from genomics and remote sensing. The change in perspective largely reflects the growing realization that we are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human activities have at least as large an influence as natural processes, and that stopping or reversing ecological change is no longer an option. This does not mean that biodiversity conservation is no longer possible or worthwhile, but that the biodiverse future we strive for will inevitably be very different from the past. The Ecology of Tropical East Asia is an advanced textbook suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level students taking courses on the terrestrial ecology of the East Asian tropics, as well as an authoritative regional reference for professional ecologists, conservationists, and interested amateurs worldwide.

Author : Alfred E. Hartemink
Publisher : CABI
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0851998496

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Soil Fertility Decline in the Tropics by Alfred E. Hartemink Pdf

Wide coverage of soils and perennial cropping systems in the tropicsSynthesis of decades of researchChallenges assumptions on the benefits of plantations for soil fertilityIt is generally assumed that soil fertility decline is widespread in the tropics and that this is largely associated with annual cropping and subsistence farming. In contrast, perennial plant cover (as in plantation agriculture) provides better protection for the soil.This book reviews these concepts, focusing on soil chemical changes under different land-use systems in the tropics. These include perennial crops, annual crops and forest plantations. Two case studies, on sisal plantations in Tanzania and sugar cane in Papua New Guinea, are presented for detailed analysis. The author demonstrates that soil fertility decline is also a problem on plantations.

Author : William Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590511563

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Geography of the British Isles by William Hughes Pdf

Author : John Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Physical geography
ISBN : UOM:39015062196343

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Elementary Physiography by John Thornton Pdf

Author : George Inglett
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780323143103

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Tropical Food: Chemistry and Nutrition by George Inglett Pdf

Tropical Foods: Chemistry and Nutrition, Volume 2 contains the proceedings of an International Conference on Tropical Foods: Chemistry and Nutrition, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 28-30, 1979. The papers explore the chemical and nutritional aspects of tropical foods from around the world, including vegetables, coconut foods, wheat, and soybean foods. This volume is comprised of 19 chapters and begins with an overview of the nutritional aspects of some tropical plant foods by focusing on nutrition, the nutritional composition of some plant foods, and the applications and limitations of food composition tables, along with assessment of nutritional status and some obstacles to nutritional health. The next chapter surveys tropical foods in the Far East, with emphasis on the processing and nutritional evaluation of fermented foods as well as fermentation and other methods of food preservation. Vegetable production in tropical Asian countries such as the Philippines is also considered. Subsequent chapters look at tropical home gardens as a nutrition intervention, tropical foods in Central America, and some aspects of traditional African foods. This book should be a valuable resource for biochemists, nutritionists, and nutritional scientists.

Author : Abel O. Olorunnisola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319653433

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Design of Structural Elements with Tropical Hardwoods by Abel O. Olorunnisola Pdf

This book provides basic information on the design of structures with tropical woods. It is intended primarily for teaching university- and college-level courses in structural design. It is also suitable as a reference material for practitioners. Although parts of the background material relate specifically to West and East Africa, the design principles apply to the whole of tropical Africa, Latin America and South Asia. The book is laced with ample illustrations including photographs of real life wood structures and structural elements across Africa that make for interesting reading. It has numerous manual and Excel spread sheet worked examples and review questions that can properly guide a first-time designer of wooden structural elements. A number of design problems are also solved using the FORTRAN programming language. Topics covered in the thirteen chapters of the book include a brief introduction to the book, the anatomy and physical properties of tropical woods; a bri ef review of the mechanical properties of wood, timber seasoning and preservation, uses of wood and wood products in construction; basic theory of structures, and structural load computations; design of wooden beams, solid and built-up wooden columns, wood connections and wooden trusses; as well as a brief introduction to the design of wooden bridges.

Author : Richard Corlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199681358

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The Ecology of Tropical East Asia by Richard Corlett Pdf

An updated edition of the only book dedicated to the terrestrial ecology of the East Asian tropics, authored by a world-renowned tropical ecologist

Author : Archer Philip Crouch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : NYPL:33433082450630

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On a Surf-bound Coast; Or, Cable-laying in the African Tropics by Archer Philip Crouch Pdf

"A portion of a diary kept during a cable-laying expedition down the west coast of Africa, starting from ... Bathurst on the river Gambia ... and terminating at the Portuguese town of St Paul de Loanda." -- [p.vii].

Author : Alfred Henry Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Chemistry, Analytic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089538771

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Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen Pdf

Author : Henry Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057000625091

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A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : IOWA:31858029178880

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House Beautiful by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Physical geography
ISBN : UOM:39015070309623

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Our Earth and Its Story by Robert Brown Pdf

Author : Allen M. Young
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468411133

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Population Biology of Tropical Insects by Allen M. Young Pdf

In this book I have tried to bring together the major developments in the study of insect populations in tropical environments. In some ways, this task has been a difficult one because conceptually it is virtually impossible to limit a discussion of insect ecology to the tropics, since the same concepts, theories, and hypoth eses concerning the mechanisms by which habitats support insect populations often apply both to temperate and to tropical regions. Thus one might argue effectively that a book such as Peter Price's Insect Ecology represents a more comprehensive treatment of insect ecology, including the tropical aspects. Yet because there has been a tremendous amount of new study on insects in the tropics in recent years, and because there has also been a strong historical interest in tropical insects, judging from early museum expeditions and medically and agriculturally oriented studies of insects in the New and Old World tropics, I believe there is a place for a book dealing almost exclusively with tropical insects. But logically so, such a book by necessity incorporates data and informa tion from Temperate Zone studies, if for no other reason than because insights into the properties of tropical environments often emerge from compariso'ns of species, communities, or faunas between temperate and tropical regions. An understanding of insect populations in the tropics cannot be divorced from a consideration of Temperate Zone populations.