Author: G. S. HumphreysPublisher:
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Category : Chimbu (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Environment and Soils of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, with Particular Reference to Soil Erosion
Author: G. S. HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chimbu (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Soils
Author: Thomas Ronal PatonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000942104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Offers a perspective on soils as earth materials, which establishes a pedological hierarchy of materials, processes and factors, and their rationalization in terms of plate tectonics. The book should interest soil and earth scientists.
Altered Ecologies
Author: Simon HaberlePublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921666811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.
Food And Natural Resources
Author: David PimentelPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 032314697X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Food and Natural Resources provides an understanding of the interdependency of food and natural resources that affect society. It is hoped that through these discussions a more complete understanding of these timely issues will emerge. This base of knowledge will help individuals and government leaders develop and implement the types of programs that will result in the effective use and management of land, water, energy, and biological resources for improved food production and a higher standard of living for everyone. The book begins by examining the intrinsic dynamics of natural ecosystems—especially the land, water, atmosphere, energy, and biological components. This is followed by chapters on the availability and interrelationships between population size, arable land, water, energy, and other biological resources; the loss of wild species of plants and animals; the availability of agricultural land for crops and livestock; and the impact of land degradation on food and other resources. Subsequent chapters discuss water use in agriculture; the mechanization of agriculture and food production; the principles and practices that can make agriculture environmentally and economically sound and sustainable; and the impact of population growth on the environment and food supply.
A Place Against Time
Author: Paul SillitoePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134377460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.
Research to Resolve Selected Problems of Soils in the Tropics
Author: E. T. CraswellPublisher: Agribookstore/Winrock
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Soil constraints to food production in the tropics; Taxonomy of tropical soils; Nutrient availability in acid soils of the humid tropics; Soil environment interactions in the semi-arid tropics; Physical problems of vertisols; Tropical high mountain soils; Mechanical and engineering problems of soils.
From Land to Mouth
Author: Paul SillitoePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship.
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