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.
Название: Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems ISBN: 1138779695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138779693 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management are linked in this new book. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history.
Автор: Jerry Jenkins Название: Mosses of the Northern Forest: Quick Guide ISBN: 1501750909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501750908 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 1543.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Quick Guide for Mosses of the Northern Forest contains two double-sided photographic charts that allow users to see high-res, close-up images of the more than 300 mosses in the Northern Forest region. The map-sized folding charts are water-resistant and field-friendly, the perfect companion to the Photographic Guide.
Автор: Brian Joseph McFarland Название: Conservation of Tropical Rainforests ISBN: 3319632353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319632353 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 1. Preface. 2. The Context of Tropical Rainforest Deforestation and Degradation. 3. Tropical Rainforest Ecology. 4. Global Environmental Policy. 5. International Finance. 6. The Origins and History of Conservation Finance. 7. Government Domestic Budgetary Expenditures. 8. Tax Deductions and Conservation Easements. 9. Government International Budgetary Expenditures. 10. Impact Investing. 11. Payments for Ecosystem Services. 12. Ecotourism and Private Reserves. 13. Debt-for-Nature Swaps. 14. Bioprospecting. 15. Green Procurement Models. 16. Green Bonds, Landscape Bonds, and Rainforest Bonds. 17. Additional Considerations for Tropical Forest Conservation Finance. 18. The Future of Conservation Finance.
Автор: Leach Melissa, Scoones Ian Название: Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa ISBN: 1138824828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138824829 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding, their effects, and who is gaining and losing. Situating forest carbon approaches as part of more general moves to address environmental problems by attaching market values to nature and ecosystems, it examines how new projects interact with forest landscapes and their longer histories of intervention. The book asks: what difference does carbon make? What political and ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified, marketized approaches, and how are local forest users experiencing and responding to them?
The book's case studies cover a wide range of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic contexts. By examining these cases in a comparative framework and within an understanding of the national, regional and global institutional arrangements shaping forest carbon commoditisation, the book provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future.
This book will be of interest to students of development studies, environmental sciences, geography, economics, development studies and anthropology, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
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