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Tropical Forest Remnants
We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600,000 species. Tropical Forest Remnants provides the best information available to help us understand, manage, and conserve the remaining fragments. Covering geographic areas from Southeast Asia and Australia to Madagascar and the New World, this volume summarizes what is known about the ecology, management, restoration, socioeconomics, and conservation of fragmented forests. Thirty-three papers present results of recent research as well as updates from decades-long projects in progress. Two final chapters synthesize the state of research on tropical forest fragmentation and identify key priorities for future work.
A Synthesis of the Galápagos
There are hundreds of books and thousands of scientific articles about the Galápagos. This volume is distinctive. The authors, Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C and Avelina Espinosa, synthesize, integrate, and conceptualize the most recent evolutionary-biology research being conducted in the archipelago’s terrestrial and aquatic environments; the conflicts resulting from human interactions with nature, including local population growth and tourism practices in the context of short- and long-term conservation efforts; and make predictions about the destiny of the Galápagos’ unique biodiversity and landscapes under various scenarios of climate-change impacts, urbanization trends, diversification o...
Black and Green
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia’s Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s. The Pacific region had yet to be overrun by drug traffickers, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces in the early ...
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Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas
Curassaows, Guans, and Chachalacas: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Cracids 2000-200
Annual Report
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La interdisciplinariedad en la universidad contemporánea
La esencia de la inter y la transdisciplinariedad es la construcción o producción de conocimiento para enfrentar problemas que requieren de una mirada múltiple –los llamados problemas complejos– y ofrecer soluciones, o para buscar una perspectiva holística en medio de la creciente compartimentación del saber en especialidades cada vez más alejadas unas de otras. La interdisciplinariedad se propone superar las fronteras entre las disciplinas, ya sean epistemológicas, sociológicas, institucionales o, en su forma más extrema, legales. Además, se plantea como la interrelación de las disciplinas para lograr propósitos que estas no podrían alcanzar individualmente. La preocupación por las formas de producción y reproducción del conocimiento le compete a la universidad como institución, pues ella certifica el conocimiento, reproduce su corpus de manera formal y está encargada de educar a los futuros profesionales e investigadores. Sus formas organizativas y sus políticas son, entonces, puntos neurálgicos del cuestionamiento de la producción del saber.
