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Author: Alfonso Silva Lee
Publisher: Panagaea Publishing
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"This is the first publication to extensively document the natural history of the Caribbean's largest, most diverse tropical island and archipelago. Cuba's remarkable number of endemic species - including the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, minute frogs and boas, magnificent painted land snails, rare butterflies and orchids - contribute to the importance and beauty of Cuba and her rich fauna and flora depicted here."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Alfonso Silva Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Author: Clyde Butcher
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813029672
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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The United Nations declared the year 2002 as "The Year of the Mountains" and encouraged countries all over the world to have environmental conferences regarding the conservation of mountains. The Conference for the Caribbean and the Americas was held in Cuba, and Clyde Butcher was invited to photograph the mountains of Cuba for the conference. He spent three weeks photographing from the Sierra Maestra of the east coast to the mogote region of the west coast--rain forests, waterfalls, and cliffs that drop off into a perfect ocean. The beauty and majesty of Cuba's natural landscape are captured in his intimate compositions, their focus on shape and light, the horizon and the sky.

Author: Sandy León De Armas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925756791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sergio Diaz-Briquets
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Conquering Nature provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by the study of development and environmental trends in former socialist countries as well as in the developing world. It approaches the issue comprehensively and from interdisciplinary, comparative, and historical perspectives. Based on the Cuban example, Diaz-Briquets and Perez-L—pez challenge the concept that environmental disruption was not supposed to occur under socialism since it was alleged that guided by scientific policies, socialism could only beget environmentally benign economic development. In reality, the socialist environmental record proved to be far different from the utopian view. Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s the environmental situation worsened despite Cuba's achieving one of the lowest population growth rates in the world and having eliminated extreme living standard differentials in rural areas, two of the primary reasons often blamed for environmental deterioration in developing countries. The government's approach was to "conquer nature" and under its central planning approach, it did not take local circumstances into consideration. This disregard for the environmental consequences of development projects continues to this day despite official allegations to the contrary—as the country pursues an economic survival strategy based on the crash development of the tourist sector and exploitation of natural resources. An underlying conclusion of the book is that the environmental legacy of socialism will present serious challenges to future Cuban generations. Conquering Nature provides, for the first time, a relevant analysis of socialist environmental policies of a developing country. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Cuba and those interested in environmental issues in developing countries.

Author: Angela T. Leiva Sánchez
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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For anyone wishing to identify the most commonly seen trees in Cuba, whether they be in the city, beside the road, on the beach or on other parts of the island. There are well over eight hundred species of tree growing on the island, thus this volume presents only a sample of the enormous arboreal variety to be found in Cuba. The reader will find both native and cultivated species, which have been balanced to present an objective guide.

Author: Cuba. Dirección de Montes y Minas
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : es
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Author: Reinaldo Funes Monzote
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba--and upon which Cuba urgently depended--also devastated the ecology of the island. The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.

Author: Jim Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764359026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An illustrated biography of the ornithologist James Bond, the author of the book Birds of the West Indies and the namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional British spy.

Author: Niki Butcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578521237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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The natural landscapes of Cuba, photographed by American Fine Art Photographer Clyde Butcher.The year 2002 was declared by the United Nations as "The Year of the Mountains." The UN encouraged countries across the world to hold environmental conferences about mountain conservation. Cuba hosted the conference for the region, inviting conservationists from across the Americas and Caribbean region to meet. The purpose of "Taller para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Montaña" (The Conference for the Sustainable Habitat of the Mountain) was to make significant progress in improving relations between our countries regarding environmental issues.Clyde was invited to photograph the mountains of Cuba for the conference by John Parke Wright IV, Luis Gomez-Echeverri, coordinator of UN programs in Cuba, and Guillermo Garcia Frias, Commander of the Cuban Revolution. As Clyde and Niki thought about being a part of an event that could change the course of history for the better, they enthusiastically agreed. They both saw it as an opportunity to make a positive difference in the world. The expedition to Cuba took them to places not seen by visitors in over fifty years. From mountain waterfalls to lush green jungles and grassy swamps to sandy beaches, Clyde's photographs reveal the seductive beauty, subtle grandeur, and majesty of this diverse island.