Tropical Bioproductivity

Author : David Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : W.D. Pitman,Antonio Sotomayor-Rios
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420038781

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Tropical Forage Plants by W.D. Pitman,Antonio Sotomayor-Rios Pdf

Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use covers the research and resulting pasture development in the tropics and subtropics, which has undergone dramatic changes in the past few decades. Providing a broad, global perspective, it serves as a comprehensive resource covering a wide range of subjects pertaining to forage and animal production in th

Author : Britannica
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0852297629

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Student Britannica India 7 Vols by Britannica Pdf

Author : E. Gunilla Almered Olsson,Pernille Gooch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351268622

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Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development by E. Gunilla Almered Olsson,Pernille Gooch Pdf

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict. It is shown that the causes and driving forces behind natural resource conflicts are diverse, complex and often interlinked, including global economic growth, exploding consumption, poor governance, poverty, unequal access to resources and power. The different interpretations of nature-culture and the role of humans in the ecosystem are often at the centre of the conflict. Natural resource conflicts range from armed conflicts to conflicts of interest between stakeholders in the North as well as in the South. The varying driving forces behind such disputes at different levels and scales are critically analysed, and approaches to facilitate and enforce mediation, transformation and collaboration at these levels and scales are presented and discussed. In order to transform existing resource conflicts, as well as to decrease the risk of future conflicts, approaches that enhance and enforce collaboration for sustainable development at global, regional, national and local levels are reviewed, and sustainable pathways suggested. A range of global examples is presented including water resources, fisheries, forests, human–wildlife conflicts, urban environments and the consequences of climate change. It will be a valuable text for advanced students of natural resource management, environment and development studies and peace and conflict management. The book will also be of interest to practitioners in the field of natural resource management.

Author : Maureen G. Reed,Martin F. Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429767906

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UNESCO Biosphere Reserves by Maureen G. Reed,Martin F. Price Pdf

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance. This definitive book shows their global relevance and contribution to environmental protection, biocultural diversity and education. Initiated in the 1970s as part of UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme, BRs share a set of common objectives, to support and demonstrate a balance between biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and research. The world’s 701 BRs form an international, intergovernmental network to support the aims of sustainability science, but this purpose has not always been widely understood. In three distinct sections, the book starts by outlining the origins of BRs and the MAB Programme, showing how they contribute to advancing sustainable development. The second section documents the evolution of BRs around the world, including case studies from each of the five UNESCO world regions. Each case study demonstrates how conservation, sustainable development and the role of scientific research have been interpreted locally. The book concludes by discussing thematic lessons to help understand the challenges and opportunities associated with sustainability science, providing a unique platform from which lessons can be learned. This includes how concepts become actions on the ground and how ideas can be taken up across sites at differing scales. This book will be of great interest to professionals engaged in conservation and sustainable development, NGOs, policy-makers and advanced students in environmental management, ecology, sustainability science, environmental anthropology and geography.

Author : Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351050968

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The Commons in a Glocal World by Tobias Haller,Thomas Breu,Tine De Moor,Christian Rohr,Heinzpeter Znoj Pdf

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption and societal reproduction. This volume bridges the two, addressing how global players affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global- local (glocal) world. Authors from a range of academic disciplines present research findings on recent developments on the commons, including: historical insights; new innovations for participatory institutions building in Europe or several types of commons grabbing, especially in Africa related to European investments; and restrictions on the management of commons at the international level. European case studies are included, providing interesting examples of local participation in commons resource management, while simultaneously showing Europe as a centre for globalized capitalism and its norms and values, affecting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including natural resource management, environmental governance, political geography and environmental history.

Author : Anastasia Koulouri,Nikolai Mouraviev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429764813

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Policy and Governance in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Anastasia Koulouri,Nikolai Mouraviev Pdf

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies. Due to increasing demands for natural resources, the WEF nexus has emerged as a response to the numerous global challenges. Addressing WEF challenges often involves balancing multiple and competing priorities and identifying and managing interrelations, synergies and trade-offs between the three components of the nexus. In this volume the authors focus on the dynamics between multiple stakeholders, such as governments, businesses, NGOs and local communities, when addressing WEF challenges by adopting a nexus approach. The book argues that effective engagement of multiple stakeholders can address difficulties arising from the introduction of an integrated approach to WEF policy design and implementation, increasing the potential benefits. The book also looks at the effect of international relations and regional power struggles on resolving cross-border WEF nexus issues. Case studies are drawn from Kenya, Central Asia, USA and Peru, highlighting key themes, such as how collaborative governance, enabled and facilitated by relational equity management, can be viewed as an innovative way to reconcile competing priorities. The combination of theoretical and case study chapters makes the book of interest to a wide audience, including scholars and advanced students of sustainable development, agriculture and food studies, water and energy policy design and governance, as well as to practitioners working in the fields of water, energy and food security.

Author : Melissa Vogt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351331449

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Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors by Melissa Vogt Pdf

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries. Certification schemes set standards through intramarket private and multi-stakeholder mechanisms, and while third-party verification is often compulsory, certification schemes are regulated voluntarily rather than legislatively. This volume examines the intricacies of certification schemes and the issues they seek to address and provides the context within which each scheme operates. While a distinction between sustainability certifications and extra-markets or intrabusiness codes of conducts is made, the book also demonstrates how both are often working towards similar sustainability objectives. Each chapter highlights a different sector, including animal welfare, biodiversity, biofuels, coffee, fisheries, flowers, forest management and mining, with the contributions offering interdisciplinary perspectives and utilising a wide range of methodologies. The realities, achievements and challenges faced by varying certification schemes are discussed, identifying common outcomes and findings and concluding with recommendations for future practice and research. The book is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in agribusiness, natural resource economics, sustainability assessment and corporate social responsibility.

Author : Brian Child
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351811835

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Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management by Brian Child Pdf

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical examples of successes and failures in implementation, and lessons about the economics and governance of wild resources with global application. CBNRM emerged in the 1980s, encouraging greater local participation to conserve and manage natural and wild resources in the face of increasing encroachment by agricultural and other forms of land use development. This book describes the institutional history of wildlife and the empirical transformation of the wildlife sector on private and communal land, particularly in southern Africa, to develop an alternative paradigm for governing wild resources. With the twin goals of addressing poverty and resource degradation in the world’s extensive agriculturally marginal areas, the author conceptualises this paradigm as the Sustainable Governance Approach, which integrates theories of proprietorship and rights, prices and economics, governance and scale, and adaptive learning. The author then discusses and defines CBNRM, a major subset of this approach. Interweaving theory and practice, he shows that the primary challenges facing CBNRM are the devolution of rights from the centre to marginal communities and the governance of these rights by communities, a challenge which is seldom recognised or addressed. He focuses on this shortcoming, extending and operationalising institutional theory, including Ostrom’s principles of collective action, within the context of cross-scale governance. Based on the author’s extensive experience this book will be key reading for students of natural resource management, sustainable land use, community forestry, conservation, and development. Providing practical but theoretically robust tools for implementing CBNRM it will also appeal to professionals and practitioners working in communities and in conservation and development.

Author : Haytham El Atfy,Bandar I. Ghassal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031163968

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Advances in Petroleum Source Rock Characterizations: Integrated Methods and Case Studies by Haytham El Atfy,Bandar I. Ghassal Pdf

This book is directed to those who are interested in petroleum geology, especially source rock from both academia and industrial societies. Our chapter-based book is written by a list of world-class subject-matter experts. The book includes recent advancements in analytical source rock characterization methods with some case studies. It is also used as part of a course curriculum or guide for source rock interpretation for all researcher categories. Significant improvement in the source rock characterization techniques in the last two decades and the knowledge is disseminated in a huge amount of papers and studies. The book intends to collect these recent advancements in one textbook to benefit students and researchers in general. In addition, it is supplemented by many case studies from all over the world that represent important data sets for the regional geology of these areas.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UCBK:C058440736

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Annual Report of the Executive Director by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Author : Clyde Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5244545

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Annual Review of United Nations Affairs by Clyde Eagleton Pdf

Contains the proceedings of the 1st- Institute for Annual Review of United Nations Affairs, New York University, 1949-

Author : Jose I. Furtado,William B. Morgan,James R. Pfafflin,Kenneth Ruddle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698244

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Tropical Resources by Jose I. Furtado,William B. Morgan,James R. Pfafflin,Kenneth Ruddle Pdf

Originally published in 1990 Tropical Resources presents in-depth coverage of the extremely diverse tropical environments, the resources to be found within the region and their production, and ecological management. The book discusses economic geography and ways of utilizing available resources, including those of tropical forests, wildlife, tidal wetlands and the sea. The book also include chapters on the development and land use of protected areas, the ecological aspects of pasture resources; and the impacts of economic development and population damage. In addition, studies are offered on tropical soils, including their distribution properties and management and the ecological processes at work in tropical forests. For geographers, economists and policymakers, the book provides a wealth of information on tropical resources and their potential development.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : IND:30000083200968

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Report on New Projects by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Author : Vanessa T. Tang,Timothy M. Shaw,Merle G. Holden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319961668

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Development and Sustainable Growth of Mauritius by Vanessa T. Tang,Timothy M. Shaw,Merle G. Holden Pdf

This edited volume analyzes the Mauritius economy and highlights what conditions and policies have contributed to the development of the country. The project gives a historical and economic analysis of Mauritius and provides comparative approaches looking at other developing states in Africa and Asia. This book is intended for a broad audience, consisting of not only economists with quantitative expertise but also other social scientists, policymakers and scholars interested in the intellectually fascinating exploration of Mauritius’s rapid rise and sustained growth performance.