Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Planktonic coccolithophores of the NW Mediterranean
Author: M. Lluïsa Cros i MiguelPublisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 8447526801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions
Author: R. H. GrovesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521360401
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This book is an initiative of a subcommittee of SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) which realized that the integrity of many natural ecosystems was being threatened by the ingress of invasive species.
Resiliency in Hostile Environments
Author: William L. AlexanderPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223898
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The agricultural communities (communidades agr icolas) of Chile's Norte Chico are dynamic systems of indivisible communal land, inherited use rights, democratic decision-making, and diverse economic strategies closely linked to changing environmental conditions. In this semi-arid region where drought is chronic and poverty is widespread, families reproduce their livelihood and comunero culture through a variety of integrated economic, subsistence, and social practices. Based on fieldwork spanning years of extreme climate changes, this vividly detailed ethnography of daily life in a peasant community explores the full range of income-generating and resource management strategies and forms of cooperative mutual assistance that are available to these households. One family's story is highlighted to illustrate the extraordinary resiliency of these communities despite the harsh ecological and, at times, social and political environments in which they are situated. The book places these descriptions within the political economy of development in Chile's current transition to democracy. While the state is more attentive to rural poverty in the post-dictatorship era, some programs and policies informed by a discourse of modernization and standardization limit these traditionally flexible livelihood options.
Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems
Author: Emilio ChuviecoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642017541
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal drought. As a result of changes in traditional land use practices, and the impact of recent climate warming, fires have more negative impacts in the last years, threatening lives, socio-economic and ecological values. The book describes the ecological context of fires in the Mediterranean ecosystems, and provides methods to observe fire danger conditions and fire impacts using Earth Observation and Geographic Information System technologies.
Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 1 Introductory Survey
Author: Josep Padró i ParcerisaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004295364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Preliminary material -- CHRONICLE OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- POSSIBLE CONTACTS WITH EGYPT BEFORE THE FIRST MILLENNIUM -- THE EGYPTIAN, PSEUDOEGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MATERIAL -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- Plates I-XXVIII.
Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.
Author: Mercedes de Caso BernalPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789695120
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This volume reflects on the unique status of the Western Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, considering the independence of its development and the existence of an indigenous maritime trade.
The EU as a global player
Author: Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEUPublisher: Fundación Univ. San Pablo
ISBN: 8415382421
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
It has now been almost two years since the Treaty of Lisbon took effect. The time was characterized by an intensive and controversial discussion between the European Union (EU) institutions and member states on the setup of arguably the most important institutional innovation besides the new post of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR): the European External Action Service (EEAS).The EEAS has the purpose of serving its head, HR Ashton, in fulfilling her tasks of, inter alia, conducting the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and increasing the efficiency and coherence of EU external relations. Regarding hither to the execution of EU foreign policy, the HR admitted in the run-up to the establishment of the EEAS that “the EU can be too slow, too cumbersome and too bureaucratic”1. With the setup of the new diplomatic service the EU wished to overcome occurring difficulties that result out of the complex net of responsibilities that characterise the external relations of the EU and thus ‘give the EU a stronger voice around the world, and greater impact on the ground’2.Given the fact that the EEAS constitutes a whole new de facto institution without predecessor and was therefore built from scratch,it is very interesting from a political scientist point of view to see where and how the new service is positioned in the institutional architecture of the EU system. Since the EEAS was ought to bring together rather intergovernmental (e.g. CFSP) and supranational (e.g. development cooperation) policy spheres of EU external action, a discussion on how it can be scrutinized by grand theories of European integration seems to offer valuable insights.In section 2 this research paper first takes a deeper look at two of the most influential grand theories of European integration, neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism. Basic assumptions and logics of the two approaches will be used to build indicators with which the overall research question of the analysis will be assessed: ¿can the two grand theories explain the institutional setup of the newly established EEAS? The empirical examination of the topic,which will mainly be based on the relevant treaty provisions and the existing decisions and reports of the EU institutions on the EEAS, follows in section 3 of the paper. Furthermore, findings of various academic articles that dealt with the EEAS in the last two years are taken into account. A conclusion summarizes the results of the analysis in section 4.
Spain and the Mediterranean Since 1898
Author: Raanan ReinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135261172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This study focuses on Spain's shift of emphasis from Latin America to the Mediterranean basin after the loss of its last colonies in the New World in 1898. The contributors analyse the Mediterranean policies of Spain's different regimes.
