Coastal Ecosystems of the Tropics - Adaptive Management, Velmurugan Ayyam; Swarnam Palanivel; Sivaperuman C
Автор: John Sessions Название: Harvesting Operations in the Tropics ISBN: 3642079768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642079764 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings together information on harvest methods, system productivity, and methods for conducting safe, efficient, and environmentally acceptable operations in tropical forests. It highlights the challenges of harvest operations in the tropics, includes techniques that have been shown to be successful, and discusses newer technologies.
Описание: Coca markets, anti-coca policies as drivers of agricultural land use change in Bolivia.- Cooperatives, Agricultural Development, and Land Change on a Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado.- Detection, drivers, and dynamics of LULCC in the Sahel: Linking scientists with local decision-makers.- From Farms to Forest Fragments: Agricultural Transition and its Implications.- Land-Use Dynamics and Political-Ecological Aspects: The Spanish Dehesa-System.- Market Integration and Market Realities on a Mexican Frontier.- Migration and other driving forces of land use/cover change in a rural context in western Mexico.- Modern Agriculture on Tropical Frontiers: Rethinking Methods for Land Change Research.- Stasis and flux in long-inhabited locales: Change in rural Andean landscapes.- Study of the economic and financial viability of two agroforestry models as sustainable choices for agriculture in Rondonia, Brasil.- The impact of a fluctuating agenda at the international level on cocoa farms in the humid forest zone of West and Central Africa: Current issues, research and development implications.- The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal.- Understanding Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) Invasion in Southern Yucatбn Peninsular Region through Integrated Land-Change Science.- Coffee and Landscape change in Colombia 1970-2002: linking agricultural intensification and land-use and land-cover change.- The tobacco industry and land cover in agricultural regions of southern Africa.- Land use and land cover in traditional swidden cultivation systems in upland SE Asia.- Land use and land cover in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
Автор: Jo?o Lucio de Azevedo; Maria Carolina Quecine Название: Diversity and Benefits of Microorganisms from the Tropics ISBN: 331955803X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319558035 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book addresses the diversity of tropical microorganisms and its applications in agriculture, renewable energy production and environmental protection.
Автор: Velmurugan Ayyam; Swarnam Palanivel; Sivaperuman C Название: Coastal Ecosystems of the Tropics - Adaptive Management ISBN: 981138925X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811389252 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The coastal areas of the tropics are rich in biodiversity, natural resources and place of intensive developmental activities as it provides livelihood to millions of people. At the same time evidences suggest that several unique coastal ecosystems viz., mangroves, wetlands, salt marshes, corals, estuaries, sand dunes and agro-ecosystem are vulnerable to natural disasters and events associated with global climate change. In recent times degradation of land, water and genetic erosion besides threat to native flora and fauna have been increasing due to unsustainable developmental activities. Therefore, a paradigm shift in deriving livelihood through conventional methods, developmental strategies, conservation practices are required for balanced and sustainable growth of the coastal areas. This publication strives to cover the status of different natural resources of the coastal region, various aspects of degradation process, production need and restorative methods besides new technological options and its socio-economic implications with case examples. Special focus is given to bring out the scope and potential of mangrove based farming, integrated and organic farming and its value addition besides the role of coastal vegetations as bioshield in protecting these regions from sea erosion, cyclones and tsunami. As the tropical coastal areas are vulnerable to climate change events, this book also covers the recent weather pattern, impacts of climate change and climate resilient technologies besides intuitional linkages and policy framework aimed at balancing development and environmental concerns.
Автор: Sanchez Pedro A. Название: Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics ISBN: 1107176050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107176058 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook is brought completely up to date. New chapters focus on organic carbon, soil biology, soils related to livestock production and forestry, and agroforestry. This will again be the go-to textbook for courses on tropical soils, and a reference for scientists and development professionals.
Описание: What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the ""promise of El Dorado""—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today.Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, ?lvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
Описание: What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the ""promise of El Dorado""—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
Автор: Tiepolo Maurizio, Pezzoli Alessandro, Tarchiani Vieri Название: Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics ISBN: 3319865471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319865478 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through the application of modern technologies for characterizing local climate and tracking vulnerability and risk, and using decision-making tools.
Автор: Maurizio Tiepolo; Alessandro Pezzoli; Vieri Tarchi Название: Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics ISBN: 3319590952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319590950 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through the application of modern technologies for characterizing local climate and tracking vulnerability and risk, and using decision-making tools.
Автор: Baker, Randall Название: Environmental Management in the Tropics ISBN: 0367450100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367450106 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9645.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The central thesis of this book is that history and a melding of artificial disciplinary divisions are essential for gaining any real understanding of the environmental tragedy and continuing dilemma of the tropics.
Автор: Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy; Shakunthala Sridhara Название: Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics ISBN: 9811015171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811015175 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation.Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
Автор: John Sessions Название: Forest Road Operations in the Tropics ISBN: 3642079776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642079771 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings together information on road planning, location, design, construction and maintenance to support environmentally acceptable operations in tropical forests. It highlights the challenges of road operations in the tropics, includes techniques that have been shown to be successful, and discusses newer technologies.
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