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Forecasting Forest Futures
Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance. The book describes the FORECAST family of ecosystem management models at three different spatial scales (tree, stand and landscape), and compares them with alternative models at these three spatial scales. The book will help forest managers to understand what to expect from ecosystem-based forest models; serve as a tool for use in teaching about sustainability, scenario analysis and valu...
Cuba
First published in the US in 1994. This new edition of a transcript of interviews with a leading Cuban intellectual now includes a chapter by Blanco entitled RCuba: 'socialist museum' or social laboratory. Blanco discusses the fall of the Soviet Union and its impact on Cuba and looks at the historical experiences of socialism . Assesses Castro's role and examines the steps being taken for a transfer of power. Blanco is the director of the Felix Varela Centre in Havana.
Tropical Forests
Large regions of the planet have been transformed from their natural composition into different human-made landscapes (farmlands, forest plantations, pastures, etc.). Such process, called land use change, is one of the major components of the current global change, which has brought the planet into a new geological era: the Anthropocene. Land use change is particularly important in tropical forests, as this ecosystem type is still heavily affected by deforestation for timber extraction, agricultural land creation of urban expansion. Changing land use has important implications for the services that tropical forests provide: production of goods such as timber, food or water; regulation of pro...
Reflections on the Third Millennium
In a bold sweep of human history, prominent Latin American intellectual Juan Antonio Blanco calls for a revolution in thought and moral vision. In this bold view of the future from a Third World vantage point, Blanco declares that "the principal challenge confronting humanity is the imaginative and audacious search for a new paradigm, an alternative to capitalism and the now defunct 'actually existing socialism'. This fascinating technological world has to move toward material and spiritual liberty in the next millennium. To fail in this new challenge to human imagination would mean accepting the inevitability of the fatal outcome of today's negative trends".
Biodiversity in Ecosystems
The term biodiversity has become a mainstream concept that can be found in any newspaper at any given time. Concerns on biodiversity protection are usually linked to species protection and extinction risks for iconic species, such as whales, pandas and so on. However, conserving biodiversity has much deeper implications than preserving a few (although important) species. Biodiversity in ecosystems is tightly linked to ecosystem functions such as biomass production, organic matter decomposition, ecosystem resilience, and others. Many of these ecological processes are also directly implied in services that the humankind obtains from ecosystems. The first part of this book will introduce different concepts and theories important to understand the links between ecosystem function and ecosystem biodiversity. The second part of the book provides a wide range of different studies showcasing the evidence and practical implications of such relationships.
Cuba
A frank discussion on the current situation in Cuba, this book presents an all-too-rare opportunity to hear the voice of one of the island's leading intellectuals. Juan Antonio Blanco is the director of the Felix Varela Center, a non-governmental body in Cuba dedicated to the study of ethics and politics. Medea Benjamin is the executive director of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based organization that promotes people-to-people ties.
Corazón tan blanco
Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past, beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact. (General Fiction)
