Natural Cuba Natural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Cuba Natural write by Alfonso Silva Lee. This book was released on 1996. Natural Cuba Natural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the first publication to extensively document the natural history of the Caribbean's largest, most diverse tropical island and archipelago. Cuba's remarkable number of endemic species - including the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, minute frogs and boas, magnificent painted land snails, rare butterflies and orchids - contribute to the importance and beauty of Cuba and her rich fauna and flora depicted here."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Cuba
Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cuba write by Clyde Butcher. This book was released on 2005. Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United Nations declared the year 2002 as "The Year of the Mountains" and encouraged countries all over the world to have environmental conferences regarding the conservation of mountains. The Conference for the Caribbean and the Americas was held in Cuba, and Clyde Butcher was invited to photograph the mountains of Cuba for the conference. He spent three weeks photographing from the Sierra Maestra of the east coast to the mogote region of the west coast--rain forests, waterfalls, and cliffs that drop off into a perfect ocean. The beauty and majesty of Cuba's natural landscape are captured in his intimate compositions, their focus on shape and light, the horizon and the sky.
Conquering Nature
Conquering Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Nature write by Sergio Diaz-Briquets. This book was released on 2000-03-15. Conquering Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conquering Nature provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by the study of development and environmental trends in former socialist countries as well as in the developing world. It approaches the issue comprehensively and from interdisciplinary, comparative, and historical perspectives. Based on the Cuban example, Diaz-Briquets and Perez-L—pez challenge the concept that environmental disruption was not supposed to occur under socialism since it was alleged that guided by scientific policies, socialism could only beget environmentally benign economic development. In reality, the socialist environmental record proved to be far different from the utopian view. Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s the environmental situation worsened despite Cuba's achieving one of the lowest population growth rates in the world and having eliminated extreme living standard differentials in rural areas, two of the primary reasons often blamed for environmental deterioration in developing countries. The government's approach was to "conquer nature" and under its central planning approach, it did not take local circumstances into consideration. This disregard for the environmental consequences of development projects continues to this day despite official allegations to the contrary—as the country pursues an economic survival strategy based on the crash development of the tourist sector and exploitation of natural resources. An underlying conclusion of the book is that the environmental legacy of socialism will present serious challenges to future Cuban generations. Conquering Nature provides, for the first time, a relevant analysis of socialist environmental policies of a developing country. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Cuba and those interested in environmental issues in developing countries.
Trees of Cuba
Trees of Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trees of Cuba write by Angela T. Leiva Sánchez. This book was released on 2007. Trees of Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For anyone wishing to identify the most commonly seen trees in Cuba, whether they be in the city, beside the road, on the beach or on other parts of the island. There are well over eight hundred species of tree growing on the island, thus this volume presents only a sample of the enormous arboreal variety to be found in Cuba. The reader will find both native and cultivated species, which have been balanced to present an objective guide.
Flowers of Cuba
Flowers of Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flowers of Cuba write by Angela Leiva. This book was released on 2006-11. Flowers of Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This small book has been written for nature-lovers who are visiting Cuba and are interested in identifying the islands flowering herbaceous plants, vines, bushes and trees, whether they be in cities, on the beach, or in the islands woods, savannas or mountains. This book covers over a hundred flowering plants and includes a glossary of botanical terms, although efforts have been made to avoid verbal technicalities. In each case there is explanatory text.
