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Book Proposed Manusela National Park

Download or read book Proposed Manusela National Park written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Plant Diversity of Malesia

Download or read book The Plant Diversity of Malesia written by P. Baas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the only publication with a realistic claim to the title "The plant diver sity of Malesia" is Flora Malesiana itself, we have hesitatingly chosen this title for the present proceedings volume. Past, present and future work on the Flora Malesiana project was the subject of a successful symposium held in August 1989. This book contains only a selection of the papers presented at that meet ing, yet it covers a much greater diversity of themes than just the inventory of botanical diversity. It even goes beyond the boundaries of the vast Flora Malesi ana region in several of its chapters. The role of the founder of the Flora Malesiana Project, Professor C.G.G.J. van Steenis, repeatedly recurs in several chapters; not only as director of and contributor to the project, but also as a pioneer in the fields of Malesian vege tation, conservation and biogeography, and as an enlightened systematist whose ideas and practical recommendations for taxonomic delimitation still largely apply. Botanical information made available in regional and local floras is of vital im portance for applications such as the exploitation of natural forests on a sus tainable yield basis. for establishing gene banks for the benefit of agriculture. forestry and horticulture. and not in the least for nature conservation. Several chapters are devoted to these themes. Floristic studies are also at the basis of the biogeographical essays and vegetation studies included in this book.

Book Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World

Download or read book Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World written by N. Mark Collins and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Payment for Ecosystem Services  PES

Download or read book Payment for Ecosystem Services PES written by Emily Fripp and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CoLUPSIA project conducted an assessment of the potential of establishing payments for ecosystem services (PES) for two regencies in Indonesia. The objectives of the present study were to determine the feasibility of PES projects in the Central Moluccas regency, island of Seram, Moluccas, to assess whether there is potential for PES at our study sites and, if so, identify the opportunities, constraints, risks, risk mitigation and needed steps for future actions. The method used followed the CoLUPSIA’s PES methodological guidelines (Fripp 2014).

Book Wildlife and Protected Area Management

Download or read book Wildlife and Protected Area Management written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Download or read book Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples written by Dawn Chatty and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.

Book Kinship  population and social reproduction in the  new Indonesia

Download or read book Kinship population and social reproduction in the new Indonesia written by Roy Ellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered ‘endangered.’ Despite this, Nuaulu have not only maintained their animist identity and shown a robust ability to reproduce 'traditional' ritual performances, but have exhibited both population growth and increasing assertiveness in the projection of their interests through the politics of the ‘New Indonesia’. This book examines how kinship organization and marriage patterns have responded to some of these challenges, and suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and exchange are the consequence of population growth, which in turn has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby effectively maintained a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority culture. Low conversion rates to other religions, and the political consequences of Indonesian ‘reformasi’, have also contributed to a situation in which, despite changes in the material basis of their lives, Nuaulu have projected a strong independent identity and organisation. In terms of debates around kinship in eastern Indonesia, this book argues that older notions of prescriptive social structure are fundamentally flawed. Kinship institutions are real enough, but the distinction between genealogical and classificatory relations is often unimportant; all that matters in the end is that the arrangements entered into between clans and houses permit both biological and social reproduction, and that the latter ultimately serves the former. An important contribution to the study of the peoples of Eastern Indonesia, it highlights a 'good news story' about the successful retention of a traditional way of life in an area that has had a troubled recent history. It will be of interest to academics in various fields of anthropology, in particular the study of kinship and Southeast Asian societies.

Book Walker s Mammals of the World

Download or read book Walker s Mammals of the World written by Ronald M. Nowak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker's vision, the text smoothly combines in-depth scholarship with a popular, readable style to preserve and enhance what the Washington Post called a landmark of zoological literature.

Book Community in the Balance

Download or read book Community in the Balance written by James Hagen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community in the Balance presents a fresh perspective on some classic social science issues. It examines the conflicts and tensions that permeate day-to-day interactions of a people in a remote region of the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku. The Maneo openly tout the pleasures of living alone in the forests of Seram away from the demands of kith and kin and the scrutiny that comes from life in villages in close proximity. The option is real. Yet while the incessant social demands and low-level enmities they attribute to village life are also felt, most acutely in the peril of sorcery, the accounts of strife are exaggerated to help establish the mutuality of the terms on which people do associate-as a collective sacrifice and virtue. Drawing on Aristotelian ideas of morality and exploring the modalities of recognition, desire, and displacement, the book focuses on the strategies of negotiation and obfuscation Maneo employ to foster community life. As volition is central to moral practice, the book's analysis of the subsequent religious conflagration that swept the province between 1999 and 2002 illuminates how fears and rumors of attack narrowed options that might otherwise have enabled enough people to opt out, condemn the violence, and perhaps contain it.

Book Nature s Strongholds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Riley
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780691122199
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book Nature s Strongholds written by Laura Riley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers more than 600 reserves in over 80 countries, includes information on how to visit these extraordinary sites, their ecological significance and some historical background.

Book The Ecology of Tropical East Asia

Download or read book The Ecology of Tropical East Asia written by Richard Corlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the only book dedicated to the terrestrial ecology of the East Asian tropics, authored by a world-renowned tropical ecologist

Book Local Science Vs Global Science

Download or read book Local Science Vs Global Science written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered “primitive” and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others’ knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts.

Book Birding Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Jepson
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-12-18
  • ISBN : 1462909094
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Birding Indonesia written by Paul Jepson and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birding Indonesia is a concise field guide to bird-watching in Indonesia The Indonesian archipelago contains 17% of the world's bird species, of which 381 are found nowhere else on earth. Written by the world's leading authorities on Indonesian birds, this book directs you in search of these specialities, to sites as varied as the environments of Jakarta to Arfak Mountains in Irian Jaya Practicalities: Travel information geared to every budget, including details of transport, accommodations, dining prices, as well as specialist information relevant to birders Information: Essays on bird families, a history of Indonesian ornithology, today's conservation efforts, and much more. A complete checklist of Indonesian birds, with common and scientific names(along with the areas in which the birds are found), and a bibliography. Photography and Maps: More than 130 color photographs showing some of Indonesia's top birds and birding sites and 28 maps (some with bird habitats marked in color)

Book Parrots of the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph M. Forshaw
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-09-27
  • ISBN : 1400836204
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Parrots of the World written by Joseph M. Forshaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s parrots in one convenient field guide From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world—and among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution—Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further aided by relevant upperside and underside flight images. This premier field guide also shows where to observe each species in the wild, helping make this the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the parrots of the world. The only parrot guide to focus on geographical distribution Covers all 356 species Features 146 color plates depicting all species and well-differentiated subspecies Provides detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status Includes color distribution maps Shows where to observe each species in the wild

Book The National Parks of Indonesia

Download or read book The National Parks of Indonesia written by Jatna Supriatna and published by Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Park of Indonesia is a book that we must read when we want to explore the 55 national parks that cover an area of more than 16 million hectares, its history of gazettement, geographic setting, beauty, uniqueness of ecosystems, habitat of flora and fauna, and abundance of ecotourism sites. The book was written by Indonesia’s living legend in biological conservation, Prof Jatna Supriatna (Universitas Indonesia) and Prof Chris Margules (James Cook University). This book is a comprehensive guidebook showing to the readers and the world how the magnificence of Indonesia’s archipelagos as a center of mega biodiversity combined by the richness in culture of local communities and their local wisdom. That is why many national parks have been declared World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO, ASEAN Heritage, Ramsar Site, and Global Geopark. Dr. Wiratno Director General of Natural Resources Conservation and Ecosystem (KSDAE) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, 2017-2022 A strategic management approach serve to strengthen efforts in achieving sustainable development. By preserving outstanding biodiversity, National Parks play pivotal role to support economic, social and culture as well as life of humans. The tourism trends emphasize quality experience, thus, national park has more resources that can be value of attractions like wildlife, natural life, local community life, etc. The management of National park therefore, become an important element to ensure that biodiversity is well maintained in supporting tourism development that impact positively to people, planet & prosperity. This book presents the wealth as well as the uniqueness of Indonesia’s biodiversity in National Parks. This book also navigate the key success of the sustainable development by having the involvement of the local community. Through this book, Prof. Jatna highlights that local community engagement as determinant factor for the effective and sustainable management of National Parks. A sustainable tourism development firmly encourage the quality of the nature, socio culture and environment. This book provides a set of knowledge, lessons learnt and applauds best practice on how to preserve the biodiversity and tourism ecosystem that become essential resources of the National Parks as a part of tourism ecosystem development approach towards quality and sustainable development. Dr. Frans Teguh, MA CHE-Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development and Conservation Act. Deputy for Resources and Institutions, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia

Book Indonesian Country Study on Biological Diversity

Download or read book Indonesian Country Study on Biological Diversity written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parrots

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noel F. R. Snyder
  • Publisher : IUCN
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9782831705040
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Parrots written by Noel F. R. Snyder and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: