Download or read book French Guiana Land of the Rain Forest written by France. Ambassade (États-Unis). Service de presse et d'information and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Guiana written by France. Ambassade (U.S.). Service de presse et d'information and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land and People of the Guianas written by Alan Mark Fletcher and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys briefly the history, land, natural resources, government, culture, and people of the three Guianas--Surinam, Guyana, and French Guiana.
Download or read book Tropical Forests of the Guiana Shield written by D. S. Hammond and published by CABI. This book was released on 2005 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
Download or read book French Guiana written by Marion Morrison and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the geography, history, arts, religion, and everyday life in French Guiana.
Download or read book Islands in the Rainforest written by Stéphen Rostain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stéphen Rostain’s book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation alike. Rostain’s work demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the course of millennia.
Download or read book Introduction to French Guiana written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, and the largest city is Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. French Guiana has a population of approximately 300,000 people, who are mostly of mixed African and European descent. French Guiana has a tropical climate, with high temperatures and humidity throughout the year. The region is known for its biodiversity, with a large number of plant and animal species found only in French Guiana. French Guiana is considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in South America. The economy is primarily based on the export of natural resources, such as gold, oil, and timber. The government of French Guiana is heavily subsidized by France, which provides funding for education, healthcare, and social services. French Guiana is also home to the Guiana Space Centre, which is a rocket launch site that is jointly operated by the French government and the European Space Agency. Overall, French Guiana is a unique and culturally rich region of South America that is known for its natural beauty and economic prosperity.
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Marius Jacobs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Download or read book French Guiana written by Allan Carpenter and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to French Guiana past and present--the people, the land, natural resources, industry, and culture.
Download or read book The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest written by I. M. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology.
Download or read book Introduction to French Guiana written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, and the largest city is Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. French Guiana has a population of approximately 300,000 people, who are mostly of mixed African and European descent. French Guiana has a tropical climate, with high temperatures and humidity throughout the year. The region is known for its biodiversity, with a large number of plant and animal species found only in French Guiana. French Guiana is considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in South America. The economy is primarily based on the export of natural resources, such as gold, oil, and timber. The government of French Guiana is heavily subsidized by France, which provides funding for education, healthcare, and social services. French Guiana is also home to the Guiana Space Centre, which is a rocket launch site that is jointly operated by the French government and the European Space Agency. Overall, French Guiana is a unique and culturally rich region of South America that is known for its natural beauty and economic prosperity.
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Download or read book Rainforest Warriors written by Richard Price and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.
Download or read book People of the Tropical Rain Forest written by Julie Sloan Denslow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the depiction of tropical rain forests in movies and art, discusses government policy, business exploitation, and the future of the rain forest, and describes the lives of forest people in South America, Africa, and Asia
Download or read book Wise Utilization of Tropical Rain Forest Lands written by C. F. van Beusekom and published by Balogh Scientific Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the higt population density and small land base characteristic of The Netherlands have demanded the development of judicious, and in many cases multi-purpose, land management. In developing environmentally sound land-use systems, we have learned that the natural landscape cannot be maintained without the whole-heart support and participation of the local populations. Today analogous conditions of high population pressure in many of the tropical developing countries continue to threaten that landscape, especialy the tropical moist forests, with degradation and destruction. The Netherlands' experience in developing intensive, people-oriented land-use systems plus its long tradition in silvicultural and biological research in tropical forestry haveprovided this study on the management of moist tropical forest as a contribution to international co-operation.
Download or read book Latin America 2019 2020 written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Latin America today, this book offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information, with solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation. Consideration is given to the evolving relationships with the United States and other Latin American nations. Revisions have also addressed new historical interpretations, for example, of the history of Mexico and latest political changes, for example, in Venezuela and Cuba. Maps, charts, and photographs provide extensive visual expressions of the region, its geography, peoples, and cultures, in particular public architecture, agricultural technology, specular geology, and striking diversity. The images offer a narrative of the multiplicity of peoples as demonstrated in their clothing, economic and everyday activities, their physical surroundings. Consequently, the narrative combines global economics, national politics, and daily social life throughout the region. The chapters can be read as individual histories for each of the countries, within the context created by contrasts and similarities with the other nations of Latin America.
