Download or read book THE LAND USE SYSTEM OF THE BAJO RIO BRAVO IN THE STATE OF TAMAULIPAS MEXICO written by Raymond Kelly Cassell and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Borderlands written by Casey Walsh and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Río Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cárdenas government’s effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico’s effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the “social field” of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh’s important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.
Download or read book Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo written by Julie L. Kunen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human activity during centuries of occupation significantly altered the landscape inhabited by the ancient Maya of northwestern Belize. In response, the Maya developed new techniques to harvest the natural resources of their surroundings, investing increased labor and raw materials into maintaining and even improving their ways of life. In this lively story of life in the wetlands on the outskirts of the major site of La Milpa, Julie Kunen documents a hitherto unrecognized form of intensive agriculture in the Maya lowlands—one that relied on the construction of terraces and berms to trap soil and moisture around the margins of low-lying depressions called bajos. She traces the intertwined histories of residential settlements on nearby hills and ridges and agricultural terraces and other farming-related features around the margins of the bajo as they developed from the Late Preclassic perios (400 BC-AD 250) until the area's abandonment in the Terminal Classic period (about AD 850). Kunen examines the organization of three bajo communities with respect to the use and management of resources critical to agricultural production. She argues that differences in access to spatially variable natural resources resulted in highly patterned settlement remains and that community founders and their descendents who had acquired the best quality and most diverse set of resources maintained an elevated status in the society. The thorough integration of three lines of evidence—the settlement system, the agricultural system, and the ancient environment—breaks new ground in landscape research and in the study of Maya non-elite domestic organization. Kunen reports on the history of settlement and farming in a small corner of the Maya world but demonstrates that for any study of human-environment interactions, landscape history consists equally of ecological and cultural strands of influence.
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Societal and Ecological Values of Wilderness written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cross Border Waters written by G. J. Gottfried and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together scientists & resource managers from government, universities, & private organizations in the U.S. & Mexico. Participants exchanged information on existing or potential cooperative projects, agency functions & programs, & issues concerning natural & cultural resource management in the border states. Sessions: ecotourism, recreation & partnership, wildlife biology & management, wetlands & watersheds, flora & vegetation, environmental education, cultural resources; water resources, fisheries, & protection & conservation. Contains 126 papers & abstracts, usually in English & Spanish.
Download or read book Cross Border Waters written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of scholary papers on environmental issues facing the Mexican American Border Region, presented at the 1998 U.S./Mexico Border States Conference on Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife in Tucson.
Download or read book Costs and Performance of Irrigation Projects written by Arlene B. Inocencio and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High irrigation investment costs together with declining world prices for food and the failures of a number of high profile past irrigation projects are the main reasons for the reluctance of development agencies and governments in sub-Saharan Africa to invest more resources in irrigation. This study aims to systematically establish whether costs of irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa are truly high, determine the factors which influence costs and performance of irrigation projects, and recommend cost-reducing and performance-enhancing options to make irrigation investments in the region more attractive. It analyzes 314 irrigation projects implemented from 1967 to 2003 in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America funded by the World Bank, African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Download or read book Water Works Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hoover Dam Documents written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Statutes at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Supply and Demand Prospects for Oilseeds and Oilseed Products in 1980 written by Lyle Eugene Moe and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources of Change in Mexican Agricultural Production 1940 65 written by Reed Hertford and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Agricultural Economic Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Agricultural Economic Report written by United States Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changes in Agriculture in 26 Developing Nations 1948 to 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investment in Mexico written by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
