Author: Bruno MesserliPublisher:
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Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Simen Mountains, Ethiopia: Cartography and its application for geographical and ecological problems
Author: Bruno MesserliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Simen Mountains, Ethiopia
Author: Bruno MesserliSimen Mountains, Ethiopia
Author: Simen Mountains, Ethiopia
Author: Bruno MesserliIbexes in an African Environment
Author: B. NievergeltPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642679587
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Caprinae are characteristic ungulates of palaearctic mountain regions. The Walia ibex, Capra ibex walie, a member of the Caprinae, has colonized successfully the Simen mountains in Ethiopia, and as such presents an interesting act in the history of the Caprinae. Apart from the question of how the Walia ibex or its ancestors ever reached the Simen mountains, the only place it occurs, I would like to stress a further point: about half of the existing ungulate species in the world are endemic to Africa. Eightyseven species of the Artiodactyla are reported to live in this continent, while there are only 17 in South America (Haltenorth 1963, Delany and Happold 1979). Such abundance of ungulate forms must have been attended by optimal utilization of the various habitats and form co-adaptation of sympatric species (Lamprey 1963, Bell 1970, Gentry 1970). Despite such intense com petition however, the Walia ibex found its natural niche still open. Obviously, its adaptations to living on steep cliffs have favoured its establishment over the already existing ungulate fauna in an afroalpine mountain area. In fact, none of the Cervids has achieved a similar successful colonisation on the African continent, even though they are much older as a group, and have already shown themselves to be well established on the American and Eurasian continents.
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
Author: Marie HuberPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110681013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The history of development has paid only little attention to cultural projects. This book looks at the development politics that shaped the UNESCO World Heritage programme, with a case study of Ethiopian World Heritage sites from the 1960s to the 1980s. In a large-scale conservation and tourism planning project, selected sites were set up and promoted as images of the Ethiopian nation. This story serves to illustrate UNESCO’s role in constructing a “useful past” in many African countries engaged in the process of nation-building. UNESCO experts and Ethiopian elites had a shared interest in producing a portfolio of antiquities and national parks to underwrite Ethiopia’s imperial claims to regional hegemony with ancient history. The key findings of this book highlight a continuity in Ethiopian history, despite the political ruptures caused by the 1974 revolution and UNESCO’s transformation from knowledge producer to actual provider of development policies. The particular focus on the bureaucratic and political practices of heritage, bridges a gap between cultural heritage studies and the history of international organisations. The result is a first study of the global discourse on heritage as it emerged in the 1960s development decade.
Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand
Author: Michel BruneauPublisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Systematics and Geography of Plants
Author: The Ethiopian Wolf
Author: David Whyte MacdonaldPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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