scholarly journals Wildlife in Surinam

Oryx ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joop P. Schulz ◽  
Russell A. Mittermeier ◽  
Henry A. Reichart
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Leatherback Turtles ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Kemp's Ridley

Surinam is one of the few countries in the world where uninhabited and undisturbed tropical rain forest still covers large areas. The Government is fully aware of the importance of this natural heritage. Wildlife is protected, and eight nature reserves, ranging in size from 4000 to 22,000 ha, have been created to protect representative habitats – forest, savannas, coastal flats and important breeding beaches for Kemp's ridley, green and leatherback turtles.

scholarly journals The Tropical Rain Forest: An Ecological Study

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Jiro Kikkawa ◽  
Len Webb
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tropical Lowlands

This long-awaited book would seem to mark the end of classical tropical botany and phytogeography as subjects for scholarly pursuits. Since the middle of the century, when the first edition of The Tropical Rain Forest appeared, the wet tropical lowlands of the world have become an industrial battleground and, today at the end of the "Second Millennium", the future of the remaining rainforests that have evolved over millions of years looks bleak. Indeed, the book may well become "a record of what the rainforest was like in the twentieth century", as stated on its first page. This elegiac declaration not only reflects world concern about its pending extinction, but also Professor Richards' increasingly personal involvement with rainforest conservation in his later years.

scholarly journals La familia Lauraceae en el sur de México: Diversidad, distribución y estado de conservación

2017 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
The Family

A survey of the diversity, distribution, and conservation status of the family Lauraceae in southern Mexico was conducted. The diversity account resulted in a list of 120 species representing 10 genera: Aiouea, Beilschmiedia, Cassytha, Cinnamomum, Licaria, Litsea, Mocinnodaphne, Nectandra, Ocotea and Persea. The states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz have the largest numbers of species, particularly for the cloud forest and the tropical rain forest. Endemic species account for 47.5% of the surveyed taxa, which concentrate in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz. Only 58 of the species considered in the study are present in the system of nature reserves in southern Mexico. The general implications of these findings for the persistence of this component of the Mexican flora are discussed.

Australian Rain-forest Subdivisions and Conservation Strategies

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Capital Gains ◽  
Skewed Distribution ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Recreational Benefits ◽  
Scientific Value

The subdivision of Australian tropical rain-forest into one- and two-hectares' residential blocks changes the local ecology in a dramatic manner. It opens the canopy, changes the humidity regime, decimates ancient climax vegetation, and introduces weed species. As a result, the practice is incompatible with the objectives alike of the World Conservation Strategy and the National Conservation Strategy for Australia. Government intervention will be required if the Strategy is to be implemented. The first step towards implementation is the evaluation of current and proposed practices. A brief analysis of the incidence of costs and benefits demonstrates the skewed distribution which results from rain-forest subdivision. A few sellers and promoters receive millions of dollars in capital gains, while millions of other people lose the public and recreational benefits offered by the existing rain-forest, and the world as a whole loses much of scientific value. The information gained by this brief analysis provides the Government with a better basis on which to act than heretofore.

scholarly journals Benefit Sharing Schema from the Forest: Identifying Potential Distributions to Customary Communities in Teluk Bintuni District, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-972
Author(s):  
Jonni Marwa ◽  
Mustofa Agung Sardjono ◽  
Afif Ruchaemi ◽  
Simon Devung ◽  
Reinardus Liborius Cabuy
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Management ◽  
Traditional Communities

This study identifies the benefits that traditional communities receive from the tropical rain forest in New Guinea, Indonesia. In this study, various benefit sharing schema developed by forest concession holder are assessed to understand the precise outcome compared to traditional welfare solutions. It further aims to identify benefit sharing schemas applied by concession investors in the forest sector and assesses these schema based on equitable principles. A questionnaire and semi‑structured interviews were used to collect data from traditional communities, concession holders, and the government. Interviews and field observations were randomly conducted and then analyzed for both quantitative and qualitative descriptions. The results indicate that there were five benefits sharing schemas i.e., those based on financial schema, based on the market, based on infrastructure, based on social management, and based on the transfer of knowledge and technology. Overall, all the schemas that were developed did not fulfil the same criteria. However, there were only two schemas that were considered to be equal and efficient: the financial based‑schema and infrastructure based‑schema. This is indicated by the larger number of criteria and requirements that they fulfil. Yet, all the schemas still present various conflicts either between customary communities and the government or between the communities and investors.

scholarly journals Vitalie Bârcă, Câteva observații privind administrarea cetăților dacice din Munții Orăștiei înscrise în Lista patrimoniului mondial UNESCO / A few notes on the management of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains inscribed on the World Heritage List

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-111
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The Government

In 1990, Romania signed the Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972. Nevertheless, the effective enforcement of the Convention occurred only in 2000, when the government approved measures for the protection of the historical monuments on the World Heritage List. After 2000, various laws on the management, preservation and protection of the monuments on the World Heritage List were issued. Some of the provisions of these laws have not been applied or complied with, which made that some of the Dacian fortresses lacked to have a legal administrator, further resulting in the monuments decay. Presently, there are no management plans for six Dacian fortresses. In addition to this lack of management plans there is the lack of managers for these monuments, but also the lack of management plans and minimal short-term strategies that would solve stringent issues.

Scatter-hoarding by musky rat-kangaroos, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, a tropical rain-forest marsupial from Australia: implications for seed dispersal

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 619-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Seed Dispersal ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Convergent Evolution ◽  
Fleshy Fruit ◽  
Scatter Hoarding ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Line Tracking

Tropical forests around the world contain animals that scatter-hoard fruits and seeds but few are known in Australian tropical forests. This study used both direct observation and spool-and-line tracking of simulated fruits to demonstrate that Australia's smallest kangaroos disperse large numbers of rain-forest fruits and seeds. They did so in two ways, either by scatter-hoarding or by carrying them away from the source to devour the flesh before dropping the seed on to the litter surface. The fruits used included a range of fruit types but particularly species with large fleshy fruit. Caches occurred as a single fruit pressed into the soil and covered with litter a mean distance of 17 m (±2.7 SE) and up to 68 m from the source. Musky rat-kangaroos handled up to 2700 fruits ha-1 mo-1 and they dispersed up to 900 fruits ha-1 mo-1 and cached up to 690 fruits ha-1 mo-1. This behaviour is a significant example of convergent evolution, which reflects similar behaviour found in agoutis, acouchies and squirrels on other continents.

On retroeconomy

2017 ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
V. Papava
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

This paper analyzes the problem of technological backwardness of economy. In many mostly developing countries their economies use obsolete technologies. This can create the illusion that this or that business is prosperous. At the level of international competition, however, it is obvious that these types of firms do not have any chance for success. Retroeconomics as a theory of technological backwardness and its detrimental effect upon a country’s economy is considered in the paper. The role of the government is very important for overcoming the effects of retroeconomy. The phenomenon of retroeconomy is already quite deep-rooted throughout the world and it is essential to consolidate the attention of economists and politicians on this threat.

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Zoltán Ádám ◽  
László Csaba ◽  
András Bakács ◽  
Zoltán Pogátsa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

István Csillag - Péter Mihályi: Kettős kötés: A stabilizáció és a reformok 18 hónapja [Double Bandage: The 18 Months of Stabilisation and Reforms] (Budapest: Globális Tudás Alapítvány, 2006, 144 pp.) Reviewed by Zoltán Ádám; Marco Buti - Daniele Franco: Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union. Theory, Evidence and Institutions (Cheltenham/UK - Northampton/MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2005, 320 pp.) Reviewed by László Csaba; Piotr Jaworski - Tomasz Mickiewicz (eds): Polish EU Accession in Comparative Perspective: Macroeconomics, Finance and the Government (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London, 2006, 171 pp.) Reviewed by András Bakács; Is FDI Based R&D Really Growing in Developing Countries? The World Investment Report 2005. Reviewed by Zoltán Pogátsa

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