Environmental History Of Oceanic Islands
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Environmental History Of Oceanic Islands
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Author : Tod F. Stuessy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-01
Environmental History Of Oceanic Islands written by Tod F. Stuessy and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-01 with History categories.
The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The natural impacts of subsidence and erosion have shaped the landscapes of these islands, resulting in progressive changes to their subtropical vegetation. The older island has undergone more substantial changes, due to both natural causes and human impacts. After the discovery of Robinson Crusoe Island in 1574, people began cutting down forests for lumber to construct boats and homes, for firewood, and to make room for pastures. Domesticated plants and animals were introduced, some of which have since become feral or invasive, causing damage to the local vegetation. The wealth of historical records on these activities provides a detailed chronicle of how human beings use their environment for survival in a new ecosystem. This book offers an excellent case study on the impacts that people can have on the resources of an oceanic island.
The People Of The Sea
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Author : Paul D'Arcy
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The People Of The Sea written by Paul D'Arcy and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups." "Students and scholars of Pacific history and environmental and cultural studies will welcome this re-evaluation of the sea's influence in Oceanic history."--BOOK JACKET.
Historical Ecology In The Pacific Islands
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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Historical Ecology In The Pacific Islands written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.
The Pacific Ocean islands have long been considered a natural laboratory where the evolution of human cultures can be studied in the context of thousands of island ecosystems. This text presents research in the ecological history of the Pacific Islands. Focusing on the environmental impact wrought by the Oceanic populations before the advent of Western contact, it challenges earlier views that the islands underwent dramatic environmental change only after European colonization. They demonstrate instead that in some cases the indigenous peoples had an often irreversible effect on the landscapes and biotas of the Pacific Islands and assert that these effects often had important consequences for island societies, economies, and political systems.
The Pacific Islands
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Author : Moshe Rapaport
language : en
Publisher: Bess Press
Release Date : 1999
The Pacific Islands written by Moshe Rapaport and has been published by Bess Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Academic survey of the Pacific Islands. Includes maps, photographs, tables, diagrams, atlas, and detailed index.
The Marshall Islands
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Author : James P. Terry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Marshall Islands written by James P. Terry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"...the book covers a wide range of topics on the Marshall Islands, including chapters on the geography and physical environment, the ecosystems and flora, early human settlement and post-colonial history, traditional Marshallese medicine, and topics on modern applied science related to the exploitation of sand, gravel and rock aggregate, waste management, and the use of geographical information systems (GIS) for socioeconomic analysis. Authors of chapters include Dr. Terry and Dr. Terry, Professor Randy Thaman, Dr. Irene Taafaki, Director of the USP Marshall Islands Centre, ex-geography lecturer, John Morrell, and staff of SOPAC." --Publisher.
Oceanic Islands
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Author : Patrick D. Nunn
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1994-01
Oceanic Islands written by Patrick D. Nunn and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01 with Nature categories.
In most accounts of geographical phenomena, islands in the middle of the oceans are marginalized and implicitly viewed as of little importance. This is a convenient rather than a rational view and one which is comprehensively disposed of in this book which examines the great diversity of island environments worldwide and the controls on their development. This book also demonstrates what are for most people the unusual qualities of many island environments: their often simple geology and structure (which hold such important clues to ocean-basin evolution), and their dominantly maritime climates, which together make oceanic islands natural laboratories without equal. Yet this book does not dwell solely on these unusual qualities but also gives a thorough account of oceanic islands worldwide. Dr. Nunn draws his examples from oceanic islands across the globe: of the seventeen case studies in this book, five come from the Atlantic (two from the Caribbean), two from the Indian Ocean, and ten from the Pacific. This book should be of interest and accessible to anyone with an interest in oceanic islands, their origins and development, and should prove informative to a variety of specialists including geographers, geologists, geophysicists, oceanographers and prehistorians.
Fluid Frontiers
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Author : John Gillis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Fluid Frontiers written by John Gillis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic, from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of inquiry to tie together human and natural histories. They reflect contemporary concerns with declining fisheries, damaged estuaries, and vanishing coastal communities. Here the history of oceanic sciences meets that of literary and artistic imagination, offering vivid insights into the meanings as well as the materiality of waves and swamps, coasts and coral reefs. In their introduction, John Gillis and Franziska Torma suggest the directions in which the fluid frontiers of marine environmental history are moving.
People Of The Sea
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Author : Paul D'Arcy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
People Of The Sea written by Paul D'Arcy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with National characteristics, Pacific Island categories.
Island Biogeography
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Author : Robert J. Whittaker
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Island Biogeography written by Robert J. Whittaker and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with Science categories.
Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Not surprisingly, they are widely studied by ecologists, conservationists and evolutionary biologists alike. There is no other recent textbook devoted solely to island biogeography, and a synthesis of the many recent advances is now overdue. This second edition builds on the success and reputation of the first, documenting the recent advances in this exciting field and explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories. In addition, the book describes the main processes of island formation, development and eventual demise, and explains the relevance of island environmental history to island biogeography. The authors demonstrate the huge significance of islands as hotspots of biodiversity, and as places from which disproportionate numbers of species have been extinguished by human action in historical time. Many island species are today threatened with extinction, and this work examines both the chief threats to their persistence and some of the mitigation measures that can be put in play with conservation strategies tailored to islands.
The Oceans And The Environment
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Author : DIANE Publishing Company
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1994-04
The Oceans And The Environment written by DIANE Publishing Company and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04 with categories.
Proceedings of a conference for representatives of the Pacific Islands community to discuss the threat of global warming and sea-level rise, waste disposal, ozone depletion, marine resource management, endangered species protection and the many other pressing environmental issues of our time.