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A Social View of Socotra Island

Author : Nataša Slak Valek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819943582
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Social View of Socotra Island written by Nataša Slak Valek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view. This book focuses on people indigenous to Socotra, Socotri cultures, heritage and also offers contributions from business, tourism, linguistic, communication, and anthropology. While a lot has been published in natural science about Socotra’s endemic species, biodiversity, and nature in general, social scientific research of the island is very limited. This book addresses therefore addresses this gap and explores various topics of tourism, behaviours, cultures, and language. This book focuses on a clear social science approach of Socotra. The purpose of this book is to publish research about the people, behaviors, heritage, and potential tourism of Socotra. The Socotra Archipelago has long been a land of mystery. It is unknown as a tourism destination for many, however, is a popular destination for adventurers, photographers and travelers who like to travel to remote and undeveloped places. This book explains how Socotra has limited resources of electricity, which is provided by diesel generators, Internet is very slow and limited to certain points on the island. There are no shopping malls or five-star hotels. Roads, schools, and hospitals have been built only recently. This book shoes how these island people do not know the development as we do, which makes it principally interesting to research. Previous interviewers of Socotri people about tourism development in the island have faced many challenges such as language barriers, lack of understanding the meanings and interviewing content, lack of support for the anticipated research results. This book successfully undertakes this challenge as not only in understanding the language, but understanding phenomena like e.g. tourism. Whilst acknowledging the ways in which indigenous island people have never travelled or seen a developed city. Thus, words like ‘developed’, ‘tourism destination’ or ‘washing machine’ may be unfamiliar terms for them. Therefore, new and innovative research methods that are sensitive to Socotra people were implemented in the creation of this book.

Vegetation Ecology of Socotra

Author : Gary Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400741413
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Vegetation Ecology of Socotra written by Gary Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the unique flora of the Socotra Archipelago with its high degree of endemism has received much attention recently, little information is available on the vegetation and related ecological aspects. Based on their extensive field experience of the region, the authors have assimilated a vast amount of knowledge to produce this book, which gives a detailed insight into the plant ecology of Socotra, designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008. The book is divided into seven chapters. After a brief introduction and overviews of important abiotic features, various aspects of the vascular flora are presented in Chapter 4, together with accounts of the bryophyte and lichen flora. Ecology and adaptive strategies of the plants are dealt with in Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 gives a concise description of the main vegetation units. Finally, important management issues of the vegetation are discussed, an essential topic to ensure preservation of the natural heritage of the archipelago.

The Lost World of Socotra

Author : Richard Boggs
Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost World of Socotra written by Richard Boggs and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands boast flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Moreover, the Socotran people have their own language (which lacks a script) and distinctive culture, cuisine and architecture: neither Arabian nor African, yet strongly and distinctively Socotran. Richard Boggs spent many months in this remote and other-world

Socotra

Author : Hilary Bradt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784776770
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Socotra written by Hilary Bradt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new full-colour title from Bradt is the first and only guide available to the largest of the four islands that make up the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Socotra Archipelago in the Arabian Sea, 240 miles offshore from their mother land, Yemen. Everything you might need for a successful trip is covered, from pre-departure planning, getting there, tour operators and where to stay to the full range of information for making the most of your time while there. Background information on history, people, language and culture is followed by an easy-to-follow geographical breakdown covering everywhere from the capital Hadibo to Ayhaft Canyon National Park, Qaria Lagoon, Rosh Marine Protected Area, Homhil Reserv, Terbak village and Hoq cave, Qalansiyah, Diksam Plateau and the forest of Firhimin to name just a few of the places detailed. There is also a section on vocabulary, an endemic wildlife check list and suggested sources of further information.Socotra is unique. Sometimes known as 'The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean', the archipelago has an exceptionally large number of endemic species. Of the 220 bird species recorded, 11 are endemic, including the relatively recently identified Socotra Buzzard. Closer to the ground, an estimated 307 plant species are endemic. More than 600 species of insects, some 100 land and freshwater molluscs, around 80 arachnids, some dozen myriapods, four land- and fresh-water crabs, 30 reptiles and 14 mammals have been found to occur, of which all the land snails, 90 % of the reptiles and about 60 % of the spiders are unique to the archipelago. With its superb beaches and dramatically varied landscapes (mountains, forest, ravines, sand-dunes, beaches, caves .) Socotra is a prime target for tourism, which will need handling with extreme care. Strict regulations are in force to preserve the island's natural heritage and much of it has protected status, but some unprotected land has already been sold to potential developers. This pristine and relatively unknown little island, so full of natural treasures, may be on the brink of a very different future.

The New American Comprehensive Encyclopedia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New American Comprehensive Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Connectivity in Motion

Author : Burkhard Schnepel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319597256
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Connectivity in Motion written by Burkhard Schnepel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and “the island factor.” It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up “islandness” as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before.

Islands of Heritage

Author : Nathalie Peutz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607151
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Heritage written by Nathalie Peutz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the most marginalized regions of Yemen to promoted for its outstanding global value. Islands of Heritage shares Soqotrans' stories to offer the first exploration of environmental conservation, heritage production, and development in an Arab state. Examining the multiple notions of heritage in play for twenty-first-century Soqotra, Nathalie Peutz narrates how everyday Soqotrans came to assemble, defend, and mobilize their cultural and linguistic heritage. These efforts, which diverged from outsiders' focus on the island's natural heritage, ultimately added to Soqotrans' calls for political and cultural change during the Yemeni Revolution. Islands of Heritage shows that far from being merely a conservative endeavor, the protection of heritage can have profoundly transformative, even revolutionary effects. Grassroots claims to heritage can be a potent form of political engagement with the most imminent concerns of the present: human rights, globalization, democracy, and sustainability.

Coastal World Heritage Sites

Author : Vanda Claudino-Sales
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9402415289
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Coastal World Heritage Sites written by Vanda Claudino-Sales and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world’s coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as “Natural World Heritage Sites”. Representing well-preserved areas of exceptional significance to the planet and to humankind, they include a total of 49 marine sites, formed by reefs, atolls and gulfs, and 35 coastal sites in all oceans and all continents with exception of Antarctica. They are being protected and preserved from most degrading uses for future generations as an important legacy from the past. Exploring their richness, this book analyzes and explains these sites in a clear, understandable, scientific way, and is of interest to all who work in or care about the geosciences, environmental sciences and biosciences.

Encyclopedia of Islands

Author : Rosemary Gillespie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520256492
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Islands written by Rosemary Gillespie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of Islands examines many such insular settings - oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce island science to a wide audience and spur further research on some of the planet's most fascinating habitats." --Book Jacket.

The New Standard Encyclopedia

Author : William A. Colledge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Standard Encyclopedia written by William A. Colledge and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Author : David Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopaedia written by David Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navigating Colonial Orders

Author : Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782385401
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Colonial Orders written by Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.

CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development

Author : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420001
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development written by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the key legal and policy innovations along endangered flora and fauna value chains for CITES to promote more sustainable development.

A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social

Author : Henry Beveridge (Advocate)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social written by Henry Beveridge (Advocate) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Comprehensive History of India : Civil, Military and Social, from the First Landing of the English, to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt ; Including an Outline of the Early History of Hindoostan

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Author : Henry Beveridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive History of India : Civil, Military and Social, from the First Landing of the English, to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt ; Including an Outline of the Early History of Hindoostan written by Henry Beveridge and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military, and Social, from the First Landing of the English to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt

Author : Henry Beveridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military, and Social, from the First Landing of the English to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt written by Henry Beveridge and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Maritime Traditions of the Fishermen of Socotra, Yemen

Author : Julian Jansen van Rensburg
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784914835
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The Maritime Traditions of the Fishermen of Socotra, Yemen written by Julian Jansen van Rensburg and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research analyses the Socotri maritime traditions and addressing the question as to how social, environmental and technological influences have shaped the maritime traditions of the fishermen of Socotra (205 nautical miles south of Yemen).