Author: Wallace W. AtwoodPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Instituto panamericano de geografia e historia... The protection of nature in the Americae
Author: Wallace W. AtwoodThe Protection of Nature in the Americas
Author: Wallace Walter AtwoodPublisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
PAIGH Publication
Author: Pan American Institute of Geography and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Nationalizing Nature
Author: Frederico FreitasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108957056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set apart for nature protection. In Nationalizing Nature, Frederico Freitas uncovers the crucial role played by conservation in the region's territorial development by exploring how Brazil and Argentina used national parks to nationalize borderlands. In the 1930s, Brazil and Argentina created some of their first national parks around the massive Iguazu Falls, shared by the two countries. The parks were designed as tools to attract migrants from their densely populated Atlantic seaboards to a sparsely inhabited borderland. In the 1970s, a change in paradigm led the military regimes in Brazil and Argentina to violently evict settlers from their national parks, highlighting the complicated relationship between authoritarianism and conservation in the Southern Cone. By tracking almost one hundred years of national park history in Latin America's largest countries, Nationalizing Nature shows how conservation policy promoted national programs of frontier development and border control.
Revista geográfica del Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia
Author: The Game of Conservation
Author: Mark CiocPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world. Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted by major breakthroughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of migratory species. The treaties had many defects, yet they also served the goal of conservation to good effect, often saving key species from complete extermination and sometimes keeping the population numbers at viable levels. It is because of these treaties that Africa is dotted with large national parks, that North America has an extensive network of bird refuges, and that there are any whales left in the oceans. All of these treaties are still in effect today, and all continue to influence nature-protection efforts around the globe. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties—all designed to protect the world’s most commercially important migratory species—have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century. The scope of the book ranges from the African savannahs and the skies of North America to the frigid waters of the Antarctic.
Economics 1966
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and DocumentationPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780422802703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Pan American Book Shelf
Author: On the Backs of Tortoises
Author: Elizabeth HennessyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249152
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary Awards The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands’ namesakes—the giant tortoises—as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it. “Fresh, insightful . . . Hennessy’s melding of human and natural history makes for thought-provoking reading.” —Booklist (starred review) “Gripping . . . well-researched and thought-provoking . . . whether you’re well-versed in the intricacies of conservation or have only just begun to long for a look at the tortoises yourself. On the Backs of Tortoises is a natural history that asks important questions, and challenges us to think about how best to answer them.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR “Wonderfully interesting, informative, and engaging, as well as scholarly.” —Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Papers in Latin American Geography in Honor of Lucia C. Harrison
Author: Lucia Carolyn HarrisonPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description