Author: Michael John EdenPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia
Author: Michael John EdenPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia
Author: Michael J. EdenPublisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471945260
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia
Author: Michael John EdenPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Human Impacts on Amazonia
Author: Darrell A. PoseyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231517351
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
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.
Interdisciplinary Analysis and Modeling of Carbon-Optimized Land Management Strategies for Southern Amazonia
Author: Gerhard GeroldPublisher: Göttingen University Press
ISBN: 3863951387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
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.
Nature and the Human Spirit
Author: Beverly L. DriverPublisher: Venture Publishing (PA)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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.
Land Management
Author: Chaitanya IyyerPublisher: Global India Publications
ISBN: 9789380228488
Category : Land use, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Population, Land Management, and Environmental Change
Author: Juha I. UittoPublisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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.
Lessons from Amazonia
Author: Richard O. BierregaardPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300127492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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.
Amazonia, Ecology and Sustainable Development
Author: Wil G. PantersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Region
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description