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The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China
By: Hou, Xian-guang; Aldridge, Richard John; Bergstrom, Jan
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This study provides fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the Chengjiang biota. The aim is to introduce professional and amateur palaeontologists, and all those fascinated by evolutionary biology, to the aesthetic and scientific quality of the Chengjiang fossils.
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Price: $140.00
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El manejo de las pesquerías en ríos de Sudamérica
By: Pinedo, Danny (ed.); Soria, Carlos (ed.)
Published by: Mayol Ediciones
Las pesquerías contribuyen de manera significativa a la oferta alimentaria mundial, sobre todo de las comunidades rurales pobres de los países en desarrollo, que dependen del pescado y sus derivados como principal fuente de proteína animal. Sin embargo, numerosos stocks y especies pesqueras se están disminuyendo dramáticamente, en muchos casos debido a la sobrepesca a la que se les somete, con la consiguiente pérdida de la biodiversidad acuática y de la seguridad alimentaria de millares de comunidades pobres. La sobreexplotación de las pesquerías a nivel mundial ha generado gran preocupación. Pero la discusión sobre la actual crisis pesquera se ha centrado casi exclusivamente en los recursos y biodiversidad marinos, mientras que las pesquerías de aguas continentales han recibido sólo una ligera atención. Este volumen se propone contribuir a un mayor conocimiento y difusión de las pesquerías continentales, los problemas que amenazan su sostenibilidad y las posibilidades para su manejo y conservación en los países de la cuenca amazónica.
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Price: $40.00
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Gender and Natural Resource Management
By: Resurreccion, Bernadette P (ed.); Elmhirst, Rebecca (ed.)
Published by: Earthscan Ltd
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. It provides an exploration of the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested element of social relationships. It offers a critical feminist perspective on gender relations and natural resource management in the context of contemporary policy concerns: decentralized governance, the elimination of poverty and the "mainstreaming" of gender. Through a combination of strong conceptual argument and empirical material from a variety of political economic and ecological context (including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as South Asia), the book explores genderenvironment linkages within shifting configurations of resource access and control. The book will serve as a core resource for students of gender studies and natural resource management, and as supplementary reading for a wide range of disciplines including geography, environmental studies, sociology and development. It will also provide a stimulating collection of ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender issues within their practice in sustainable development.
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Price: $60.00
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Le Gestion Forestal Municipal En America Latina
By: Ferroukhi, Lyès
Published by: ITDG Publishing
En América Latina el contenido y alcance de las iniciativas de descentralización en el tema forestal, así como los retos que se enfrentan, varían considerablemente de acuerdo al contexto de los diferentes países. Sin embargo, el tema de la descentralización toma cada vez mas fuerza en la región y las municipalidades tienen ahora la oportunidad de asumir un papel mas fuerte en la gestión de los recursos naturales y en el acceso a los beneficios derivados de esta. Así, la elaboración de este libro fue motivada por la necesidad de (i) conocer mejor el tipo de poderes que han sido otorgados a las municipalidades hasta la fecha, (ii) entender mejor el protagonismo cada vez mayor de estas en la gestión forestal, (iii) analisar las oportunidades que se han creado, así como las amenazas que enfrentan los diferentes procesos de descentralización iniciados en la región. Este libro presenta el resultado de extensas investigaciones sobre este tema en seis países de América Latina: Bolivia, Brasil, Cosa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras y Guatemala. Los diferentes capítulos revelan importantes experiencias de gestión forestal impulsadas por municipalidades en diferentes contextos regionales, nacionales y locales. Es nuestra esperanza que este material pueda contribuir con una mejor compresión del mundo forestal municipal y atraiga a funcionarios de ministerios, legisladores, técnicos de proyectos, investigadores, funcionarios de las agencias de cooperación internacional, alcaldes, técnicos municipales y funcionarios de asociaciones municipales.
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Lob Trees in the Wilderness
By: Ahlgren, Clifford; Ahlgren, Isabel
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, in the days of voyageurs, tall trees were used as guideposts in the uncharted wilderness to help fur traders and explorers find their way through the maze of lakes and portages. Branches were cut, leaving the middle of the trees bare with branches above and below. Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren use nine native trees to serve as lob trees for this book, an ecological history of human activity in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area.
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Price: $51.00
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The Lobster Coast
By: Woodard, Colin
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of environmental prudence: at a time when the fishing industry is in crisis, they have conserved the bounty of their waters, even as the once-humble lobster has become a coveted delicacy. How denizens of the coast achieved this balance, even as they withstood assaults from everyone from French raiders to rapacious land speculators, makes for a stellar informal history ... a primer for conservation and the effects of bad politics ( The Kingston Observer ).
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Sustainable Natural Resource Management
By: Lynch, Daniel
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Using applied mathematics familiar to undergraduate engineers and scientists, this book examines natural resource management and its role in sustainability.
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Price: $52.00
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This Common Ground
By: Chaskey, Scott
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborgs The Rural Life, This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the countrys first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity at his beloved Quail Hill Farm in eastern Long Island, Scott Chaskey offers stirring insight into the connections between land and the human family. Whether writing about the voice of a small wren nesting in the lemon balm or a meadow of oats, millet, and peas rising to silver and green after a fresh rain, this poet-farmers contagious sense of wonder brings us back to our bond with the soil.
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Wills' Mineral Processing Technology
By: Wills, B.A.; Napier-Munn, Tim
Published by: Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
The established text and professional reference on ore and mineral processing, from extraction to raw material
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Price: $65.95
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