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Author : Andrew John Marshall
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book The Ecology of Papua: The diversity and conservation of Papua's ecosystems written by Andrew John Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Marshall
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290680X
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part Two written by Andrew J. Marshall and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope it will serve to raise awareness of Papua on a global as well as local scale, and to catalyze effective conservation of its most precious natural assets. New Guinea is the largest and highest tropical island, and one of the last great wilderness areas remaining on Earth. Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is noteworthy for its equatorial glaciers, its vast forested floodplains, its imposing central mountain range, its Raja Ampat Archipelago, and its several hundred traditional forest-dwelling societies. One of the wildest places left in the world, Papua possesses extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Today, Papua’s environment is under threat from growing outside pressures to exploit its expansive forests and to develop large plantations of oil palm and biofuels. It is important that Papua’s leadership balance economic development with good resource management, to ensure the long-term well-being of its culturally diverse populace.
Author : Andrew J. Marshall
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906796
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part One written by Andrew J. Marshall and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope it will serve to raise awareness of Papua on a global as well as local scale, and to catalyze effective conservation of its most precious natural assets. New Guinea is the largest and highest tropical island, and one of the last great wilderness areas remaining on Earth. Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is noteworthy for its equatorial glaciers, its vast forested floodplains, its imposing central mountain range, its Raja Ampat Archipelago, and its several hundred traditional forest-dwelling societies. One of the wildest places left in the world, Papua possesses extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Today, Papua’s environment is under threat from growing outside pressures to exploit its expansive forests and to develop large plantations of oil palm and biofuels. It is important that Papua’s leadership balance economic development with good resource management, to ensure the long-term well-being of its culturally diverse populace.
Author : Nikhil Sekhran
Publisher : Department of Environment and Conservation
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Papua New Guinea Country Study on Biological Diversity written by Nikhil Sekhran and published by Department of Environment and Conservation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paige West
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388065
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conservation Is Our Government Now written by Paige West and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both. West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.
Author : Bruce McP. Beehler
Publisher : Conservation International
ISBN 13 : 9781881173618
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea written by Bruce McP. Beehler and published by Conservation International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biologically, New Ireland is one of the least biologically studied regions of Papua New Guinea—its mountainous southern zone has long been considered both a high priority for biodiversity conservation and a major "scientific unknown." Conservation International agreed to organize a rapid assessment of the forests and wildlife of southern New Ireland. The purpose of the rapid assessment exercise was threefold: to assess the biodiversity of southern New Ireland, to field-test rapid-survey methodology in Papua New Guinea, and to share expertise and methodologies with staff scientists from Papua New Guinea's Department of Environment and Conservation.
Author : Stephen J. Richards
Publisher : Conservation International
ISBN 13 : 9781881173663
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Biodiversity Assessment of Yongsu--Cyclops Mountains and the Southern Mamberamo Basin, Papua, Indonesia written by Stephen J. Richards and published by Conservation International. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, Conservation International held a conservation priority-setting workshop in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, bringing together government agencies and conservation organizations. The Mamberamo Lake Basin region was identified as a high priority, and this volume offers a biodiversity assessment for the Yongsu-Cyclops Mountains and the southern portion of the Mamberamo Basin, both tropical ecosystems including well-known fauna such as tree kangaroos, cuscus, cassowaries, and many species of birds.
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Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Papua New Guinea Conservation Needs Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila A. McKenna
Publisher : Conservation International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Marine Rapid Assessment of the Raja Ampat Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia written by Sheila A. McKenna and published by Conservation International. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raja Ampat islands are another example of a highly diverse coral ecosystem under threat. Such regions stand out not only because of their species richness, endemism, and habitat level diversity, but also because of their relatively pristine condition. Yet portions of these coral ecosystems face imminent destruction and degradation because of over-fishing or destructive fishing, pollution, population growth, and the urbanization of coastlines. This rapid assessment catalogs the current biological state of the Raja Ampat islands and assesses potential threats.
Author : Patrick L. Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645232
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts written by Patrick L. Osborne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory textbook on tropical ecology, unique in its international scope and balanced coverage of both aquatic and terrestrial systems.
