The Environment and Soils of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, with Particular Reference to Soil Erosion
Author: G. S. Humphreys
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 146
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Author: G. S. Humphreys
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Ronal Paton
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1000942104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a perspective on soils as earth materials, which establishes a pedological hierarchy of materials, processes and factors, and their rationalization in terms of plate tectonics. The book should interest soil and earth scientists.
Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1134377533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.
Author: Simon Haberle
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1921666811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.
Author: David Pimentel
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 032314697X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood and Natural Resources provides an understanding of the interdependency of food and natural resources that affect society. It is hoped that through these discussions a more complete understanding of these timely issues will emerge. This base of knowledge will help individuals and government leaders develop and implement the types of programs that will result in the effective use and management of land, water, energy, and biological resources for improved food production and a higher standard of living for everyone. The book begins by examining the intrinsic dynamics of natural ecosystems—especially the land, water, atmosphere, energy, and biological components. This is followed by chapters on the availability and interrelationships between population size, arable land, water, energy, and other biological resources; the loss of wild species of plants and animals; the availability of agricultural land for crops and livestock; and the impact of land degradation on food and other resources. Subsequent chapters discuss water use in agriculture; the mechanization of agriculture and food production; the principles and practices that can make agriculture environmentally and economically sound and sustainable; and the impact of population growth on the environment and food supply.
Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1134377460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.
Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 0300142269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship.
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 480
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Published: 1993
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. T. Craswell
Publisher: Agribookstore/Winrock
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoil constraints to food production in the tropics; Taxonomy of tropical soils; Nutrient availability in acid soils of the humid tropics; Soil environment interactions in the semi-arid tropics; Physical problems of vertisols; Tropical high mountain soils; Mechanical and engineering problems of soils.