Download or read book Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan written by B. L. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly topical study of tropical deforestation in Mexico reports on the first phase of the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region Project (LCLUC-SYPR): a large, multi-institutional, and team-based study designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives committed to various internationalprogrammes of forest preservation and complementary economic programmes.The SYPR project is a response to inderdisciplinary defined research themes deemed critical to global environmental change and complementary international research agendas (e.g. environment and development, ecosystem assessment, biotic diversity). Pivotal among these agendas are those posed by the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) effort of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme as it is linked through such USsponsors as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The themes (i.e. questions and subjects) posed by these programmes and organization are 'integrated' or 'synthesis' in kind, meaning that they rest within the intersection of formaldisciplines and are intended to fit into a larger, systems framework about human-environment relationships and the structure and function of the biosphere.The editors of this volume, as most of its contributors, come from the disciplines of geography, ecology, and economics. The lead editor, the geographer B. L. Turner II, has spent most of his career in pursuit of understanding different aspects of tropical deforestation and agriculture.
Download or read book Rights Resources Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya written by Betty Bernice Faust and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays alerting readers to issues of human rights and political ecology vital for understanding culture and conservation in Maya communities.
Download or read book Moral Ecology of a Forest written by José E. Martínez-Reyes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract speculators. In the name of conservation, such speculators attempt to undermine local land control in these desirable areas. Moral Ecology of a Forest provides an ethnographic account of conservation politics, particularly the conflict between Western conservation and Mayan ontological ecology. The difficult interactions of the Maya of central Quintana Roo, Mexico, for example, or the Mayan communities of the Sain Ka’an Biosphere, demonstrate the clashing interests with Western biodiversity conservation initiatives. The conflicts within the forest of Quintana Roo represent the outcome of nature in this global era, where the forces of land grabbing, conservation promotion and organizations, and capitalism vie for control of forests and land. Forests pose living questions. In addition to the ever-thrilling biology of interdependent species, forests raise questions in the sphere of political economy, and thus raise cultural and moral questions. The economic aspects focus on the power dynamics and ideological perspectives over who controls, uses, exploits, or preserves those life forms and landscapes. The cultural and moral issues focus on the symbolic meanings, forms of knowledge, and obligations that people of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and classes have constructed in relation to their lands. The Maya Forest of Quintana Roo is a historically disputed place in which these three questions come together.
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Download or read book Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucat n Peninsula written by Gerald Alexander Islebe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information relevant for the conservation of biodiversity and the sound management of the coastal and forest ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula in the face of global change. Various aspects of the biodiversity of the Yucatan Peninsula are analyzed in an integrative manner, including phenological, ecophysiological, ecological and conservation aspects of plants and animals and their relationships with humans in coastal and forest ecosystems.
Download or read book Use and Management of Sabal Palms Among the Maya of Yucatan written by Javier Caballero and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Regional Development Studies Regional Development and Structural Policy in Mexico written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1997-12-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Mexico's regional development policy options for the coming decade.
Download or read book GIS for Coastal Zone Management written by Darius Bartlett and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of tools for integrating and processing spatial information. These technologies are increasingly used in the management and analysis of the coastal zone. Supplying the guidance necessary to use these tools, GIS for Coastal
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 1992 written by George Wayne and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Geo data written by John McCoy and published by Gale. This book was released on 2003 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the physical geography of 207 countries or dependencies, each with a relief map, a collection of key facts, an overview of geography and geology, discussion of specific geographic features, a look at human population, and a list of further readings.
Download or read book To See with Two Eyes written by Shannan L. Mattiace and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannan Matiace looks at political consciousness amongst Indians of the Chiapas in Mexico, tracing how it has developed from the founding of peasants' associations in the 1930s to the recent Zapatista uprising.
Download or read book Women in Mexican Folk Art written by Eli Bartra and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that the topic provides unique insights into Mexican culture, and has enormous relevance within and without the country, given the fact that much folk art is made for the United States and Europe, either in terms of the tourists who buy it on coming to Mexico, or that which is exported.
Download or read book Mexican American Genealogical Research written by John P. Schmal and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers guidelines, suggestions and an outline to help multigeneational Mexican Americans get started with family history research.
Download or read book The Indigenous Roots of a Mexican American Family written by Donna S. Morales and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olayo Morales, son of Austacio Morales and Juana Salas, was born in 1875 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He married Juana Luevano (1885-1951), daughter of Tiburcio Luevano and Manuela Martinez, in 1903. They immigrated to the United States in 1912. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mexico, Texas and Kansas. Includes Delgado and related families.
Download or read book Mercado de Valores written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
