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Author : Michael John Eden
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia written by Michael John Eden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Eden
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471945260
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia written by Michael J. Eden and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1994-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard Gerold
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
ISBN 13 : 3863951387
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Analysis and Modeling of Carbon-Optimized Land Management Strategies for Southern Amazonia written by Gerhard Gerold and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carbiocial Project investigates viable carbon-optimized land management strategies for maintaining tropical ecosystem services under land use change and changing climate conditions in Southern Amazonia – a hotspot of global change. The project aims at understanding the vital natural processes and socio-economic driving forces in the region and develops strategies to enhance and protect carbon stocks in the recently deforested agroscapes of Central/Northern Mato Grosso and South Pará. That is why Carbiocial analyzes and models soil, water and climate as well as agro-economics, social and political transformations. Based on detailed storylines, the project aims at identifying possible entry-points for a necessary change in local and regional production patterns, considering local livelihoods as well as the present national and global economic, legal and political situation. This book gives an overview of the first results of the multi-disciplinary Carbiocial Project by publishing the main presentations, held on the Carbiocial Status Conference, on October 7-8, 2013, in Cuiabá. In sixteen chapters the authors elucidate the project‘s current state of knowledge, illustrating adapted methods for regional modeling and promising strategies for the Amazon development.
Author : Darrell A. Posey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231517351
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Human Impacts on Amazonia written by Darrell A. Posey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental scientists, botanists, and anthropologists, this volume explores the various effects of human development on Amazonia. The contributors argue that by protecting and drawing on local knowledge and values, further environmental ruin can be avoided.
Author : Chaitanya Iyyer
Publisher : Global India Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789380228488
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Land Management written by Chaitanya Iyyer and published by Global India Publications. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Land Management book integrates our current understanding of environmental processes with relevant social ecoomic and other subjects to provide an integratedapproach to land use. This approach is then applied throughout the book at relevant scales including field, city, catchment, national and global. This book allows specialisation in ecological conservation,ecotechnology for cities, land reclamation and restoration, natural resource management and soil management.
Author : Michael John Eden
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia written by Michael John Eden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverly L. Driver
Publisher : Venture Publishing (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Nature and the Human Spirit written by Beverly L. Driver and published by Venture Publishing (PA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and timely text advocates an expanded ethic oriented toward ecosystem sustainability and focuses on the role of nature in maintaining the human spirit. Diverse views are put forth in 38 chapters by 49 authors who represent all types of users and interests. This text presents a balanced, in-depth perspective on this difficult topic of hard-to-define values. The text encourages a sense of awe about the complexity of natural systems as it redefines the words spirit and spirituality by redirecting the reader from the realms of the sectarian, religious, or mystical toward a nature-based meaning. This perspective encompasses the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, and economic well-being of people and communities, emphasizing the sameness of humans and land, and it lays the groundwork for an understanding of, and a need for an expanded land management ethic.
Author : Wil G. Panters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Amazonia, Ecology and Sustainable Development written by Wil G. Panters and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Aspinall
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420042971
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Land Use Change written by Richard J. Aspinall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the use of land reflect a variety of environmental and social factors, necessitating an equally varied suite of data to be used for effective analysis. While remote sensing, both from satellites and air photos, provides a central resource for study, socio-economic surveys, censuses, and map sources also supply a wealth of valid informati
Author : Richard O. Bierregaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300127492
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Lessons from Amazonia written by Richard O. Bierregaard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
Author : Glen O. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135991979
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Forest Service written by Glen O. Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. This book provides a study of the Forest Service, its organization and processes as one of the largest sub departmental bureaus in the federal government; speaking to matters as they stood surrounding 1974. Robinson fits the Forest Service within the larger framework of public land management, analyzing as an administrative institution with emphasis on its general processes, problems and controversies. This brings value to all those who know enough about the problems of resource management to be concerned.
Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461300991
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management written by Virginia H. Dale and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume incorporates case studies that explore past and current land use decisions on both public and private lands, and includes practical approaches and tools for land use decision-making. The most important feature of the book is the linking of ecological theory and principle with applied land use decision-making. The theoretical and empirical are joined through concrete case studies of actual land use decision-making processes.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821365984
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Land Management written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. 'Sustainable Land Management' provides strategic focus to the implementation of sustainable land management (SLM) components of the World Bank's development strategies. SLM is a knowledge-based procedure that integrates land, water, biodiversity, and environmental management to meet rising food and fiber demands while sustaining livelihoods and the environment. This book, aimed at policy makers, project managers, and development organization, articulates priorities for investment in SLM and natural resource management and identifies the policy, institutional, and incentive reform options that will accelerate the adoption of SLM productivity improvements and pro-poor growth.
Author : Juha I. Uitto
Publisher : United Nations University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Population, Land Management, and Environmental Change written by Juha I. Uitto and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural development that is environmentally, socially, economically, and culturally sustainable is essential for food production of the increasing world population, and the very future of mankind. The issues pertaining to the so-called population-environmental nexus are at the heart of the current debate on sustainable development. It is argued that while on a global scale population growth is one of the main driving forces of environmental change, there are significant local variations in the interrelationship between people, food production, and environmental change. This publication is base on the UNU Global Environmental Forum, which brought together leading scholars from both the South and the North to address the issues of population, land management, and environmental change. The authors draw extensively upon field research carried out in the tropical and subtropical regions of South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Amazon. the agricultural ecosystems; indigenous knowledge in the sustainable management of biological and land resources; the role of women; and participatory approaches to rural development. It is realized that a large part of the problem of conservation of biological diversity lies outside of the protected areas, in agricultural areas where pressures have led to often detrimental changes in the production processes and the environment. It is argued that indigenous production systems are often highly adaptive to the local ecological and socio-economic conditions, and can be sustainable if given the chance.
Author : Benno Pokorny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135105928
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon written by Benno Pokorny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.
Author : Jeremy M. Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806192
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Conjuring Property written by Jeremy M. Campbell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.
Author : Baleshwar Thakur
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180696190
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Perspectives In Resource Management In Developing Countries (volume Iv: Land Appraisal And Development) written by Baleshwar Thakur and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
