Forestry Policies in the Caribbean
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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9789251042328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author:
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9789251042328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9789251042335
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Caribbean Research Council. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, Fisheries, and Forestry
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allen Blackman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1317906861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.
Author: Caribbean Development Bank
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Fairhead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521535663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and educational practices engage with this. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy. The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science.