Mahogany in Belize
Author | : Peter L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Author | : Peter L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Author | : Jennifer L. Anderson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674067266 |
Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable, demand for it set in motion a dark, hidden story of human and environmental exploitation. Anderson traces the path from source to sale, revealing how prosperity and desire shaped not just people’s lives but the natural world.
Author | : Samuel Bridgewater |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-01-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 029273901X |
A wide-ranging study that draws on local and regional research findings to provide a popular portrait of the biodiverse and resilient Chiquibul. Belize’s Chiquibul Forest is one of the largest remaining expanses of tropical moist forest in Central America. It forms part of what is popularly known as the Maya Forest. Battered by hurricanes over millions of years, occupied by the Maya for thousands of years, and logged for hundreds of years, this ecosystem has demonstrated its remarkable ecological resilience through its continued existence into the twenty-first century. Despite its history of disturbance, or maybe in part because of it, the Maya Forest is ranked as an important regional biodiversity hot spot and provides some of the last regional habitats for endangered species such as the jaguar, the scarlet macaw, Baird’s tapir, and Morelet’s crocodile. A Natural History of Belize presents for the first time a detailed portrait of the habitats, biodiversity, and ecology of the Maya Forest, and Belize more broadly, in a format accessible to a popular audience. It is based in part on the research findings of scientists studying at Las Cuevas Research Station in the Chiquibul Forest. The book is unique in demystifying many of the big scientific debates related to rainforests. These include “Why are tropical forests so diverse?”; “How do flora and fauna evolve?”; and “How do species interact?” By focusing on the ecotourism paradise of Belize, this book illustrates how science has solved some of the riddles that once perplexed the likes of Charles Darwin, and also shows how it can assist us in managing our planet and forest resources wisely in the future.
Author | : Chaloner and Fleming, Mahogany and Timber Brokers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Mahogany |
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Author | : Jennifer M. O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Mahogany |
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Author | : Warren David Brush |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melissa A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081359698X |
Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages.