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A Belizean Rain Forest
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Author : Robert H. Horwich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Belizean Rain Forest written by Robert H. Horwich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Nature categories.
Describes the Community Baboon Sanctuary and the northern forest of Belize, with examples introducing the complexities of the tropical rainforest.
A Natural History Of Belize
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Author : Samuel Bridgewater
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2012-01-20
A Natural History Of Belize written by Samuel Bridgewater and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-20 with Nature categories.
A wide-ranging study that draws on local and regional research findings to provide a popular portrait of the biodiverse and resilient Chiquibul. Belize’s Chiquibul Forest is one of the largest remaining expanses of tropical moist forest in Central America. It forms part of what is popularly known as the Maya Forest. Battered by hurricanes over millions of years, occupied by the Maya for thousands of years, and logged for hundreds of years, this ecosystem has demonstrated its remarkable ecological resilience through its continued existence into the twenty-first century. Despite its history of disturbance, or maybe in part because of it, the Maya Forest is ranked as an important regional biodiversity hot spot and provides some of the last regional habitats for endangered species such as the jaguar, the scarlet macaw, Baird’s tapir, and Morelet’s crocodile. A Natural History of Belize presents for the first time a detailed portrait of the habitats, biodiversity, and ecology of the Maya Forest, and Belize more broadly, in a format accessible to a popular audience. It is based in part on the research findings of scientists studying at Las Cuevas Research Station in the Chiquibul Forest. The book is unique in demystifying many of the big scientific debates related to rainforests. These include “Why are tropical forests so diverse?”; “How do flora and fauna evolve?”; and “How do species interact?” By focusing on the ecotourism paradise of Belize, this book illustrates how science has solved some of the riddles that once perplexed the likes of Charles Darwin, and also shows how it can assist us in managing our planet and forest resources wisely in the future.
In Search Of The Rain Forest
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Author : Candace Slater
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-22
In Search Of The Rain Forest written by Candace Slater and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-22 with Science categories.
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Timber Tourists And Temples
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Author : Richard B. Primack
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2013-04-10
Timber Tourists And Temples written by Richard B. Primack and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Stretching across southern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and Belize, the Maya Forest, or Selva Maya, constitutes one of the last large blocks of tropical forest remaining in North and Central America. Home to Mayan-speaking people for more than 5,000 years, the region is also uncommonly rich in cultural and archaeological resources. Timber, Tourists, and Temples brings together the leading biologists, social scientists, and conservationists working in the region to present in a single volume information on the intricate social and political issues, and the complex scientifc and management problems to be resolved there. Following an introductory chapter that presents GIS and remote sensing data, the book: considers perspectives on managing forest resources and the forestry and conservation policies of each nation examines efforts by communities to manage their forest resources explains the connections between resource conservation and use by local people highlights research projects that integrate baseline biological research with impact assessments explains the need to involve local people in conservation effort Timber, Tourists, and Temples explores methods of supporting the biological foundation of the Maya Forest and keeping alive that unique and diverse ecosystem. While many areas face similar development pressures, few have been studied as much or for as long as the Maya Forest. The wealth of information included in this pathbreaking work will be valuable not only for researchers involved with the Maya Forest but for anyone concerned with the protection, use, and management of tropical forest ecosystems throughout the world.
Belize
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Author : Carlos Ledson Miller
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2008-01-16
Belize written by Carlos Ledson Miller and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-16 with categories.
Belize is the saga of a Central American father and his two sons -- one American and one Belizean -- who struggle against a forbidding land, and often with each other.
Rainforest Remedies
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Author : Rosita Arvigo
language : en
Publisher: Lotus Press
Release Date : 1993
Rainforest Remedies written by Rosita Arvigo and has been published by Lotus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Health & Fitness categories.
The work of Rosita Arvigo and Michael Balick to bring the knowledge of the Mayan healers to the Western reader deserves due credit. This revised and enlarged second edition includes much additional information about the major herbs in the Mayan pharmacopoeia. Their work proves that the rainforest has more value to mankind alive than cut down
Belize Tropical Fruit
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Belize Tropical Fruit written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
A laminated fold-out field guide to the tropical fruit of Belize. For each species, English and scientific names and the family to which it belongs are given. For some species Spanish names have been added.
Rain Forests
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Author : Lynne Hardie Baptista
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Rain Forests written by Lynne Hardie Baptista and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Rain forest ecology categories.
Text and photographs examine the rain forests and its inhabitants.
Costa Rica Belize Guatemala 1995
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Author : Fodor's
language : en
Publisher: Fodor's
Release Date : 1994
Costa Rica Belize Guatemala 1995 written by Fodor's and has been published by Fodor's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Travel categories.
Human Activities And The Tropical Rainforest
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Author : Bernard K. Maloney
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Human Activities And The Tropical Rainforest written by Bernard K. Maloney and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Science categories.
Arising initially from a conference, the papers published here have been integrated into book form to provide information on human activities and the tropical rainforest in the past and present, and on the possible future of the rainforest, in a unique way. Other books have considered some, but not all, of these themes; however, none has stressed the continuity of change over time and its possible outcome for the people of the forest as well as for the forest itself. Because of the approach taken, this book should appeal across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Indeed a prime aim has been to suggest that rainforest, because of its complexity and the complexity of people-rainforest relationships throughout time, deserves study from a broad perspective. This book poses more questions than answers about the rainforest and it is hoped that it will encourage readers to think about the rainforest in a wider way than hitherto. This book is aimed at geographers (physical and human), social anthropologists, archaeologists, pedologists, foresters and tropical botanists and will be of value to graduates of various disciplines setting out to research the rainforest.