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Este libro está elaborado de forma interdisciplinaria mediante el trabajo conjunto y el diálogo de diversos autores de distintos campos de la antropología física y especialistas de otras disciplinas. Contiene cinco apartados temáticos que reflejan los intereses de las y los investigadores y de los pobladores mismo: Panorama sociodemográfico y ecológico, Condiciones de vida y salud, Ser mujeres y hombres en Atzala, Medicina tradicional, Religión festividad y patrimonio.
Ante la complejidad de los fenómenos naturales y sociales, hay que partir de una cierta humildad científica, provocar preguntas desde todos los ángulos y pasar a estrategias inclusivas. La construcción de nuevos paradigmas requieren de lo anterior ante la urgencia de un mundo contemporáneo caracterizado por la destrucción acelerada de sus ecosistemas. En los capítulos del libro encontrarán buenos ejemplos de este tipo de dinámicas colaborativas. Sin duda, las reflexiones y los debates que inspiran estos textos son relevantes, pues los retos de la época actual son tan complejos que sólo podemos abordarlos de manera interactoral y transdisciplinaria: de otra manera es prácticamente imposible.
Defines riparian areas in laymen's terms and provides a brief overview of the value of riparian areas, and how the Bureau of Land management manages them.
As concerns increase over the scarcity of water resources and the role of anthropogenic activities, water quality is evermore important. Activities ranging from agriculture to mining have had a bearing on the quality of water that they impact. Several studies assessing such impacts have been conducted at local and global scales over the years. This book, consisting of contributions by authors in various water-related fields, delves into some approaches that are used to understand and/or to improve water quality, and these include assessment of water chemistry, biomonitoring, modelling and water treatment. This book will be useful to environmental scientists, water professionals, researchers, academics and students.
This book provides a detailed overview of the concepts, techniques, applications, and methodological approaches involved in land use and cover change (LUCC) modeling, also known simply as land change modeling. More than 40 international experts in this field have participated in this book, which illustrates recent advances in LUCC modeling with examples from North and South America, the Middle East, and Europe. Given the broad range of geomatic approaches available, it helps readers select the approach that best meets their needs. The book is structured into five parts preceded by a foreword written by Roger White and a general introduction. Part I consists of four chapters, each of which fo...
Thousands of families and individuals are attracted to the South Carolina coast each year, renting houses up and down the beach throughout the seasons. They bring their lives with them when they come to this magical place. In A Week at Surfside Beach, author Pierce Koslosky Jr. has crafted sixteen poignant short stories that paint a vivid portrait of the beach's diverse, temporary inhabitants: those people attracted to a landscape both beautiful and overwhelming in its ability to force introspection and change. Set over the course of a single rental season that ends at Christmas, the book's unrelated characters all have their stays in the blue beach house, yet each story has a distinct messa...
Felipe thought he was unique. There was no other spider like him. He lied and stole from his neighbor every chance he got. He would daydream about having his own kingdom with lots of servants to wait on him. He was even too lazy to get his own food. then one day he met a small frog who would change his life forever.
Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that reassert local concepts of place and space, thus harnessing the power of cartography in their struggles for justice. In twelve essays written by co...
The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes. These encompass a range of histories, processes, strategies and mechanisms, with case studies from ten countries and many regions: struggles to reclaim indigenous lands, conflicts over land/resource/environmental services, competing land claims, urban territorial identities, state power strategies, commercial involvements and others. The case studies included in the book represent a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological framings currently deployed in Latin America to help interpret the patterns and processes through the conceptual lenses of territory, territoriality and territorialization. Interrogating the meanings of territory introduces multiple spatial, socio-cultural and political concepts including space, place and landscape, power, control and governance, and identity and gender.