Download or read book Race to Save the Tropics written by Robert Goodland and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries.
Download or read book Race to Save the Tropics Ecology Economics for Sustainable Future written by Goodland Robert and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race to Save the Rainforest written by National Film Network LLC and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race To Save The Rainforest" is the Science & Nature Adventure game all about the world's tropical rainforests and what you can do to save them! The game is so much fun you don't even have to be interested in the rainforest to want to play it! What is the game about? Six rainforest animals have lost their homes to deforestation. The first player to help them find new homes in the neighboring rainforest before loggers cut it down, wins. To do this you will be competing with other players and yourself. You will be answering rainforest trivia questions, spinning the dial to save endangered species, and being subject to fate cards and rolls of the dice, all while trying to avoid poachers and burning forests. "Race To Save The Rainforest" can be played at varying levels of difficulty, making it a game for almost anyone.
Download or read book In the Shadows of the Tropics written by James S. Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
Download or read book Race Place and Medicine written by Julyan G. Peard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVLooks at a group of 19th century Brazilian doctors, the Bahian Tropicalista School, and their efforts to both counter European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority and doomed health and to forge their own definition of tropical medi/div
Download or read book Research Articles written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal reconciliation -- Addictions -- Allergies -- Archeology --Alternative fuel for cars --Atomic bomb -- Australian animals -- Australian cultural icons -- Ballet -- Beetles -- Brand power -- Climbing mountains -- Computer animation-- Computer dating-- Convicts in exile -- Captain Cook's voyages-- Dairy production-- Dangerous predators-- Dogs -- Dumbing-down of society-- Ecological footprint -- Euthanasia-- Fast food-- Gambling-- Gay cowboy-- Genetic engineering -- Germs, viruses, epidemics --Global warming-- Hijab-- Horses-- Insomnia cure --Internet-- John Pilger-- Life savers-- Love-- Lunar and social eclipses-- Monster makers-- Nanotechnology -- National treasures -- Pirates -- Pope John Paul II -- Qantas 85th Anniversary -- Re-cycling -- Science fiction -- Space travel -- Sharks -- Sheep farming -- Spam -- Sun -- Text messaging -- Tunnels -- Venomous creatures -- Water -- Whaling -- Wizardry -- Women at war -- Seven wonders of the world -- World War 2.
Download or read book Slavery Race and Conquest in the Tropics written by Robert E. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. May internationalizes the American Civil War and reinterprets the 1860 presidential campaign, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry.
Download or read book Why Forests Why Now written by Frances Seymour and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.
Download or read book Natural Forest Management in the American Tropics written by Francis E. Putz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Preservation written by A. Dwight Baldwin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biodiversity II written by A Joseph Henry Press book and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 1996-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years." With those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (National Academy Press, 1988). Despite this and other such alarms, species continue to vanish at a rapid rate, taking with them their genetic legacy and potential benefits. Many disappear before they can even be identified. Biodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically. It explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity, including: New approaches to the integration of electronic data, including a proposal for a U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center. Application of techniques developed in the human genome project to species identification and classification. The Gap Analysis Program of the National Biological Survey, which uses layered satellite, climatic, and biological data to assess distribution and better manage biodiversity. The significant contribution of museum collections to identifying and categorizing species, which is essential for understanding ecological function and for targeting organisms and regions at risk. The book describes our growing understanding of how megacenters of diversity (e.g., rainforest insects, coral reefs) are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact. Biodiversity II reinforces the idea that the conservation of our biological resources is within reach as long as we pool resources; better coordinate the efforts of existing institutionsâ€"museums, universities, and government agenciesâ€"already dedicated to this goal; and enhance support for research, collections, and training. This volume will be important to environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, educators, students, and concerned individuals.
Download or read book Tropical Forest Conservation and Development written by Jean Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Race and Nation written by Peter Wade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.
Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Download or read book Manejo de reas protegidas en los tr picos written by John Mackinnon and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropics of Haiti written by Marlene L. Daut and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about ‘race’ affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.
Download or read book The Fate of the Forest written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of conquistadors, in centuries of slavery, in the schemes of Brazil’s military dictators in the 1960s and 1970s, and in new globalized economies where Brazilian soy and beef now dominate, while the market in carbon credits raises the value of standing forest. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn show in compelling detail the panorama of destruction as it unfolded, and also reveal the extraordinary turnaround that is now taking place, thanks to both the social movements, and the emergence of new environmental markets. Exploring the role of human hands in destroying—and saving—this vast forested region, The Fate of the Forest pivots on the murder of Chico Mendes, the legendary labor and environmental organizer assassinated after successful confrontations with big ranchers. A multifaceted portrait of Eden under siege, complete with a new preface and afterword by the authors, this book demonstrates that those who would hold a mirror up to nature must first learn the lessons offered by some of their own people.
