Book Description
Examines the relationship between population and soil erosion in areas of Central Mexico.
Author : Sherburne Friend Cook
Publisher : Berkeley, U. of Calif. P
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Erosion
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Examines the relationship between population and soil erosion in areas of Central Mexico.
Author : Sherburne Friend Cook
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Pavel Krasilnikov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9400756607
Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their use and degradation. This is a first attempt to give a systematized characteristic of the soil resources of Mexico. Land resources of the second-biggest economy in Latin America are critical for its sustainable development, and a demand for adequate soil information is high. The information contained within can be used for any soil-related research done in Mexico and in neighboring countries. The book includes detailed characteristics of soils of all the physiographic regions of Mexico with maps, photos and explanatory schemes. The book is based on the experiences of the authors in research and soil survey, as well as on the existent, mainly ‘grey’ literature on Mexican soils. The book is recommended for researchers and university readers, students of all levels and decision-makers, working in the area of soil science, environmental issues, Earth sciences, land management and nature conservation.
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 1974-02
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Author : Georgina H. Endfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1444399330
By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications. Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico’s rich colonial archives Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics
Author : David R. Montgomery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520272900
An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilisations to modern times, 'Dirt' explores the compelling idea that we are - and have long been - using up Earth's soil.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
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ISBN : 9781422371404
Author : Murdo J. MacLeod
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0292788258
The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these intermediate economic stages, and what effect did they have on the peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than ever. Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucatán, it was home of the Maya, one of the great pre-Columbian cultures. MacLeod examines the long-term process it underwent of relative prosperity, depression, and then recovery, citing comparative sources on Europe to describe Central America's great economic, demographic, and social cycles. With an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction, this fascinating study should appeal to historians, anthropologists, and all who are interested in the colonial experience of Latin America.
Author : Sherburne Friend Cook
Publisher : Berkeley, U. of Calif. P
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Mexico
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Author : Bradley Skopyk
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0816539960
The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to drought and soil degradation set off by Old World agriculture. Instead, Bradley Skopyk argues that a global climate event called the Little Ice Age brought cold temperatures and elevated rainfall to the watersheds of Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan. With the climatic shift came cataclysmic changes: great floods, human adaptations to these deluges, and then silted wetlands and massive soil erosion. This book chases water and soil across the colonial Mexican landscape, through the fields and towns of New Spain’s Native subjects, and in and out of some of the strongest climate anomalies of the last thousand or more years. The pursuit identifies and explains the making of two unique ecological crises, the product of the interplay between climatic and anthropogenic processes. It charts how Native farmers responded to the challenges posed by these ecological rifts with creative use of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds, environmental engineering, and conflict within and beyond the courts. With a new reading of the colonial climate and by paying close attention to land, water, and agrarian ecologies forged by farmers, Skopyk argues that colonial cataclysms—forged during a critical conjuncture of truly unprecedented proportions, a crucible of human and natural forces—unhinged the customary ways in which humans organized, thought about, and used the Mexican environment. This book inserts climate, earth, water, and ecology as significant forces shaping colonial affairs and challenges us to rethink both the environmental consequences of Spanish imperialism and the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping them.