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  • Conservation in Chilean Patagonia

    Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges

    Edited by Juan Carlos Castilla, Juan J. Armesto Zamudio, María José Martínez-Harms, David Tecklin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence ... Read more

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Guide of Amphibians and Reptiles of São Tomé and Príncipe

    by César J. Pollo ...
    The Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands (Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón) are the result of volcanic activity of the Cameroon Volcanic Line that occurred along this fracture in the earth's crust during the lower Tertiary and early Quaternary and that continues inland as the Cameroon/Nigerian mountains.They are located between 220 and 350 kilometers from the western coast of Central Africa and have never ... Read more

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  • Second Growth

    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    by Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • El Hierro Island Global Geopark

    Diversity of Volcanic Heritage for Geotourism

    Edited by Javier Dóniz-Páez, Nemesio M. Pérez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low population pressure and a largely unchanged natural landscape. Accordingly, a great geodiversity of volcanic morphologies and erosion processes has been preserved. In addition, ... Read more

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  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • Imperfect Balance

    Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas

    Edited by David Lentz ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500)

    Edited by Basil Reid ...
    Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology.The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve

    From Local Thinking to Global Actions

    Edited by José Ernesto Mancera Pineda, Andrés F. Osorio, Cesar Toro, Carolina Sofía Velásquez-Calderón ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, in the southwest Caribbean Sea, which is the world’s largest BR and contains representative ecosystems of tropical island regions.● Future regional climate behavior and forms of balanced relationships between humans and nature to ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands

    Science and Conservation

    Edited by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ricardo F. de Lima, Martim Melo, Rayna C. Bell ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official reports and previously unpublished data – to provide readers with the most updated information about ... Read more

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  • The Maya and Climate Change

    Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands

    by Kenneth E. Seligson ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Approaches to Premodern Societies and Environments
    The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrought by climate change. The ability of Maya communities to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as they did. Researchers today understand that the breakdown of Classic Maya society was ... Read more

    $21.89 USD