Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula

Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula
Title Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula PDF eBook
Author Gerald Alexander Islebe
Publisher Springer
Pages 403
Release 2015-11-17
Genre Science
ISBN 3319065297

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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.

Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula

Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula
Title Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula PDF eBook
Author Gerald Alexander Islebe
Publisher
Pages
Release 2015
Genre
ISBN 9783319065304

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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. .

Sugarcane and Rum

Sugarcane and Rum
Title Sugarcane and Rum PDF eBook
Author John Robert Gust
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 193
Release 2020-04-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816538883

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While the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico may conjure up images of vacation getaways and cocktails by the sea, these easy stereotypes hide a story filled with sweat and toil. The story of sugarcane and rum production in the Caribbean has been told many times. But few know the bittersweet story of sugar and rum in the jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula during the nineteenth century. This is much more than a history of coveted commodities. The unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews’s new history Sugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum. Gust and Mathews weave together ethnographic interviews and historical archives with archaeological evidence to bring the daily lives of Maya workers into focus. They lived in a cycle of debt, forced to buy all of their supplies from the company store and take loans from the hacienda owners. And yet they had a certain autonomy because the owners were so dependent on their labor at harvest time. We also see how the rise of cantinas and distilled alcohol in the nineteenth century affected traditional Maya culture and that the economies of Cancún and the Mérida area are predicated on the rum-influenced local social systems of the past. Sugarcane and Rum brings this bittersweet story to the present and explains how rum continues to impact the Yucatán and the people who have lived there for millennia.

Moral Ecology of a Forest

Moral Ecology of a Forest
Title Moral Ecology of a Forest PDF eBook
Author José E. Martínez-Reyes
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 286
Release 2016-11-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816534624

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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.

The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History of Mexico

The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History of Mexico
Title The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History of Mexico PDF eBook
Author Nuria Torrescano- Valle
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 289
Release 2019-12-02
Genre Science
ISBN 3030317196

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This book provides essential information on Mexico’s Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history. Considering the geography of Mexico – which is home to a variety of climatic and environmental conditions, from desert and tropical to high mountain climates – this book focuses on its postglacial paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Further, it analyses human intervention since the middle Holocene as a major agent of environmental change. Offering a valuable tool for understanding past climate change and its relationship with present climate change, the book is a must-read for botanists, ecologists, palaeontologists and graduate students in related fields.

Contested Nature

Contested Nature
Title Contested Nature PDF eBook
Author Steven R. Brechin
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 339
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0791486540

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How can the international conservation movement protect biological diversity, while at the same time safeguarding the rights and fulfilling the needs of people, particularly the poor? Contested Nature argues that to be successful in the long-term, social justice and biological conservation must go hand in hand. The protection of nature is a complex social enterprise, and much more a process of politics, and of human organization, than ecology. Although this political complexity is recognized by practitioners, it rarely enters into the problem analyses that inform conservation policy. Structured around conceptual chapters and supporting case studies that examine the politics of conservation in specific contexts, the book shows that pursuing social justice enhances biodiversity conservation rather than diminishing it, and that the fate of local peoples and that of conservation are completely intertwined.

Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica

Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica
Title Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica PDF eBook
Author Gordon W. Frankie
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 352
Release 2004-02-06
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0520241037

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Annotation A collection of papers regarding the conservation of Costa Rica's tropical dry forest, which is disappearing more rapidly than its rain forest, due to ease of conversion to agriculture.