United States
America's drought threatens a recurrence of the 2008 global food crisis, when soaring prices set off riots and unrest to parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, food experts warn.
Corn prices reached an all-time high on Friday, as the drought...
According to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin June 2 publication, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development’s third round of informal consultations has made progress within two groups of negotiators, looking forward to the outcome document of this summit. However, differences between the G-77...
Review of: Pokherel, J. C.; 1996, Environmental Resource Negotiation Btween Unequal Powers. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
This book attempts to build a conceptual framework on negotiation by particularly applying Roger Fisher's works on Negotiating Power. Studies on negotiation from a weak nation's perspective and strategies pursued by weak nations in enhancing power are of...
The Nepalese immigrants in the United States comprise a comparatively small community, representing the diversity of Nepalese ethnic backgrounds. Culturally, these encompass the three geographical areas of Nepal, popularly known as Himal (high mountainous region bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China), Pahad (middle hills), and Tarai (southern flat area bordering India). Despite...
Ill-defined as it may be, "fieldwork" is the hallmark of cultural anthropology. Within that discipline, nobody is regarded as having quite made the grade without some experience of fieldwork. The tradition is not new in anthropology, having begun with - or at least become institutionalised at the time of - British colonial expansions in Africa and Asia. One can even find important strains of...
The world is in the midst of an ecological explosion with devastating implications. Thousands of species of microbes, plants, and animals are being introduced, both deliberately and inadvertently, to new land areas, seas, and freshwaters. In many regions, these new colonists are running wild, disrupting the dynamics of ecosystems, pushing native species toward extinction, and causing billions...
Exploring the great wilderness of Alaska's Brooks Range was Robert Marshall's joy and delight during the decade between 1929 and 1939. Marshall traveled this spectacular country, from the Upper Koyukuk drainage to the Arctic Divide, making maps, recording scientific data, and exalting in the beauty of that incredibly pristine landscape. Although his early death at thirty-eight ended an...
Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farms (cultivated pieces of land smaller than 50 acres) have nurtured a rich diversity of both wild and domestic plants and animals. While most academic literature emphasises the accelerated loss of biodiversity, this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmland and surrounds...
Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, the Mujahideen defenders of Afghanistan developed and reinforced many natural cave systems to use as supply bases and defensive positions. The Taliban and Al Qaeda further strengthened these positions in the 1990s. Following the events of September 11, 2001, these cave systems have once more come to prominence and sites such as Tora Bora...
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarise the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the...
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