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Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Geografia Brasileira
As relações estabelecidas entre a natureza e as diversas formas de organização social podem situar a questão ambiental a partir dos primeiros núcleos de atividade humana. Contudo as dimensões adquiridas pelos impactos ambientais desde o pós-guerra inseriram o debate ambientalista no contexto de ruptura do paradigma da Modernidade. O livro Desenvolvimento sustentável e geografia brasileira investiga os principais eixos teórico-conceituais associados ao desenvolvimento sustentável e analisa como os geógrafos no Brasil estabelecem referências a esses mesmos eixos conforme os ramos – físico, humano e/ou instrumental – em que atuam. Discorre-se também sobre a polissemia envolvendo os termos "desenvolvimento" e "sustentabilidade" ao se resgatar suas origens históricas, semânticas e etimológicas. Finalmente, aborda-se a dicotomia entre Geografia Física e Geografia Humana, apontando seus desafios e tecendo considerações no tocante ao estudo da sociedade e da natureza desenvolvido por essa ciência.
Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservation
Framing the issues; Subsistence hunting; Market hunting and collecting; Wildlife farming and ranching; Sport hunting; Commercial Uses; The future.
Alcohol and Humans
Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. This fascinating multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding.
The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing
This volume investigates how large herbivores not only influence the structure and distribution of the vegetation, but also affect nutrient flows and the responses of associated fauna. The mechanisms and processes underlying the herbivores' behavior, distribution, movement and direct impact on the vegetation are discussed in detail. It is shown that an understanding of plant/animal interactions can inform the management of large herbivores to integrate production and conservation in terrestrial systems.
The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II
Domestic and wild large mammalian herbivores occur on every continent except Antarctica. Through their browsing and grazing, they affect the structure and distribution not only of vegetation, but also of associated fauna. Consequently, the interactions between management practices and herbivore populations influence the biodiversity, structure and dynamics of ecosystems across vast expanses around the globe: signs of human activity that will be detectable for epochs to come. As a follow-up work to The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing, published in 2008, this new volume presents cutting-edge research on the behaviour, distribution, movement, and direct and indirect impacts of domestic and wild herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems. The respective chapters highlight strategic and applied research on cross-cutting issues in palaeontology and ecology, and provide concrete recommendations on the management of large herbivores to integrate production and conservation in terrestrial systems. Given its scope, the book will appeal to students, researchers and anyone interested in understanding these fascinating wild animals and how they shape the natural world.
Warfare Ecology
The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the book provides both a theoretical overview of this new field and case studies that range from mercury contamination during World War I in Slovenia to the ecosystem impacts of the Palestinian occupation, and from the bombing of coral reefs of Vieques to biodiversity loss due to violent conflicts in Africa. Warfare Ecology also includes reprints of several classical papers that set the stage for the new synthesis described by the authors. Written for environmental scientists, military and humanitarian relief professionals, conservation managers, and graduate students in a wide range of fields, Warfare Ecology is a major step forward in understanding the relationship between war and ecological systems.
