Author: Mitsuo IchikawaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest degradation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Ecology and Change of the Hunter-gatherer Societies in the Western Congo Basin
Author: Mitsuo IchikawaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest degradation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Author: Mark Dike DeLanceyPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810873990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
African Study Monographs
Author: Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World
Author: Victoria Reyes-GarcíaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319422715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems to more broad-scale and universal notions of globalization and acculturation. Far from the commonly held romantic view that hunter-gatherers continue to exist as isolated populations living a traditional lifestyle in harmony with the environment, contemporary hunter-gatherers – like many rural communities around the world - face a number of relatively new ecological and social challenges to which they are pressed to adapt. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are increasingly and rapidly being affected by Global Changes, related both to biophysical Earth systems (i.e., changes in climate, biodiversity and natural resources, and water availability), and to social systems (i.e. demographic transitions, sedentarisation, integration into the market economy, and all the socio-cultural change that these and other factors trigger). Chapter 10 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Historical Change and Its Problem on the Relationship Between Natural Environments and Human Activities in Southern Africa
Author: Kazuharu MizunoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)
Author: Tim IngoldPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040282881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition.Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History, Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property, Power and Ideology
Forests and Insects
Author: Allan D. WattPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780412791109
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology. The book covers such topics as colonization of trees by insects, population dynamics of forest insects, insect natural enemies, the effects of climate change and pollution on forest pests, spatial variation in the abundance of insects,the mineralization of carbon by termites, the impact of herbivorous insects, and the conservation of forest insect diversity, including the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation. This Royal Entomological Society Symposium volume will be of great interest to all agricultural and forest entomologists, population and community biologists, pest management specialists and anyone concerned with the conservation of forest biodiversity.
Fruit Phenology and Ecology of Sympatric Gorillas and Chimpanzees in Tropical and Montane Forests
Author: Juichi YamagiwaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chimpanzees
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Landscape-scale Conservation in the Congo Basin
Author: David YanggenPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831712882
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Heading Towards Extinction?
Author: Albert Kwokwo BarumePublisher: IWGIA
ISBN: 9788790730314
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Chapter 5: Land Rights