Mangrove Archives: Unravelling Human-environment Interactions from Deeply Buried Deposits at the Site Anse Trabaud, Martinique, Lesser Antilles (1290–780 cal BP)

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

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Operative Ontologien – ein Versuch, einen klaren Begriff zu verunreinigen

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000107981 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 187-192

Author(s):

Gertrud Koch

Keyword(s):

Motion Capture ◽

Human Being ◽

Visual Effects ◽

Human Environment ◽

Ontological Question ◽

Media And Technology ◽

Live Action ◽

Capture Technique

"Operative Ontologien werden in diesem Artikel als relationale kommunikative Situationen vorgestellt, in denen Medien und Technik Teil einer Praxis sind, aber nicht einfach mit dieser zusammenfallen. Die Ontologie bezieht sich auf eine temporäre Konstellation, beispielsweise eine Verknüpfung von Maschine, Körper und Bild, in der die ontologische Frage der Anthropologie perspektivisch immer wieder verschoben wird. Wie das genau zu verstehen ist, wird am Fallbeispiel der Motion-Capture-Technik deutlich, in der durch eine Verschmelzung von Live Action Movie und der animierten Welt der Visual Effects eine permanente Veränderung dessen erfolgt, was als Mensch oder menschliche Umwelt angesehen wird. This article presents operational ontologies as communicative situations in which media and technology are part of a practice, but do not simply coincide with it. Ontology refers to a temporary constellation, for example a link between machine, body and image, which shifts the ontological question of anthropology in perspective time and again. This thesis is further illustrated by a case study of the motion capture technique, whose merging of live action movie and the animated world of visual effects leads to a permanent modification of our notions of the human being and human environment. "

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Overseas Development Administration. A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. London: HMSO. 1995. viii+248 pages. Hardbound. £18.95.

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v35i2pp.189-190 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 189-190

Author(s):

Mir Annice Mahmood

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Social Change ◽

Practical Experience ◽

Development Projects ◽

Social Analysis ◽

Economic Perspective ◽

Human Environment ◽

The Past ◽

The Impact ◽

Overseas Development

This book, hereinafter referred to as the Guide, has been developed for those social analysts (e.g., anthropologists, sociologists, and human geographers) who have had little or no practical experience in applying their knowledge as development practitioners. In the past, development projects would be analysed from a narrow financial and economic perspective. But with the evolution of thinking on development, this narrow financial and economic aspect has now been broadened to include the impact on society as the very meaning of development has now come to symbolise social change. Thus, development is not restricted only to plans and figures; the human environment in its entirety is now considered for analysis while designing and implementing development projects.

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Resource appraisal of Dominica, Lesser Antilles

Open-File Report ◽

10.3133/ofr811157 ◽

1981 ◽

Author(s):

James E. Case

Keyword(s):

Lesser Antilles ◽

Resource Appraisal

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Human-Environment Interactions: A Plea for the Humanities

Nature and Culture ◽

10.3167/nc.2007.020207 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 210-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nancy Tuana

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Global Community ◽

Human Environment

Research on human-environment interactions often neglects the resources of the humanities. Hurricane Katrina and the resulting levee breaches in New Orleans offer a case study on the need for inclusion of the humanities in the study of human-environment interactions, particularly the resources they provide in examining ethics and value concerns. Methods from the humanities, when developed in partnership with those from the sciences and social sciences, can provide a more accurate, effective, and just response to the scientific and technological challenges we face as a global community.

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Expansion of the Taino cacicazgos towards the Lesser Antilles

Journal de la Société des Américanistes ◽

10.3406/jsa.1999.1731 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 93-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Menno L.P. Hoogland ◽

Corinne L. Hofman

Keyword(s):

Lesser Antilles

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Ecosystem services and beyond: using multiple metaphors to understand human–environment relationships.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.718128413.793484670 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Joern Fischer

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Human Environment

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ON THE NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYGIENIC STANDARDS (MACs) IN THE WATER AND AIR OF THE WORKING AREA FOR PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Токсикологический вестник ◽

10.36946/0869-7922-2020-5-21-31 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 21-31

Author(s):

Kh. Kh. Khamidulina ◽

E. V. Tarasova ◽

A. S. Proskurina ◽

A. R. Egiazaryan ◽

I. V. Zamkova ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Waste Water ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Perfluorooctanoic Acid ◽

Stockholm Convention ◽

The European Union ◽

Industrial Emissions ◽

Hazard Class ◽

Human Environment ◽

Class 1 ◽

The Russian Federation

Currently, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has no hygienic standards in the air of the working area and objects of the human environment in the Russian Federation. By the decision of the Stockholm Convention SC-9/12, PFOA, its salts and derivatives are included in Part I of Annex A of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2019 (with exceptions for possible use). The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade included PFOA, its salts and derivatives in the list of potential candidates for inclusion in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention at the next meeting COP10 in 2021. The use of this chemical on the territory of the Russian Federation entails water and air pollution. Industrial emissions and waste water from fluoropolymer production, thermal use of materials and products containing polytetrafluoroethylene, biological and atmospheric degradation of fluorotelomer alcohols, waste water from treatment facilities are the sources of the release of PFOA into the environment. Analysis of international databases has showed that PFOA is standardized in the air of the working area in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland. In the countries of the European Union, as well as the USA and Canada, the issue of PFOA standardizing in drinking water is being now actively under discuss. Taking into account the high toxicity and hazard of the substance and the serious concern of the civil society of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing requested the Russian Register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Substances to develop MACs for perfluorooctanoic acid in the air of the working area and water as soon as possible. The MACs for PFOA have been proposed using risk analysis: 0,005 mg/m3, aerosol, hazard class 1 – in the air of the working area and 0,0002 mg/L, the limiting hazard indicator – sanitary-toxicological, hazard class 1 – in the water.

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