"Eastern African rain forests are remarkable in their high level of endemism. Miocene uplift of the central African plateau separated these montane and coastal forests from the main Guineo-Congolian forest of west and central Africa. Since then, stable Indian Ocean temperatures …
"In Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, Richard A. Rajala explores the roots of the deforestation crisis in the Douglas fir regions of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Beginning with a labour process analysis of the technological and managerial i…
"This book is based on authors' extensive involvement in large Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an important earth ecosystem, the tropical forests. It highlights past achievements, explains the underlying physics that allow the radar pract…
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlem…
This environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus emphasises the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. The book considers Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental histo…
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.
Examines the evolutionary distinctions among the rainforests of the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, due to the separate development of their flora and fauna.
Examines the evolutionary distinctions among the rainforests of the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, due to the separate development of their flora and fauna.
Radical territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods in Brazil
Radical territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods in Brazil.