Essays about: "rainforest"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 72 essays containing the word rainforest.

  1. 6. Sustainable Cattle Production in Brazil - The Agricultural Innovation System of Integrated Livestock Systems in Mato Grosso State

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mads Stub Pullich; [2021]
    Keywords : Agricultural Innovation System; Deforestation; Sustainable Agriculture; Integrated Livestock Systems; Brazil; Mato Grosso; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The precarious state of affairs in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, particularly in Mato Grosso, where unsustainable cattle ranching is driving the deforestation. Brazil needs to invest in sustainable development of its cattle production. READ MORE

  3. 7. Peace with the environment: Community perspectives from the Andean-Amazon foothills of Colombia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Lorenz Rodrigo Peh; [2021]
    Keywords : Buen vivir; Caquetá; Colombia; community perspectives; conflict; environment; environmental peacebuilding; participatory methods; peace; social ecology; visual methods; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Half a decade after the signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, the country continues to suffer from persisting violence and the need to address environmental destruction is more evident than ever. This research builds on a post-development critique of current peace efforts and responds to the call for including local perspectives in knowledge creation and development practice. READ MORE

  4. 8. Evaluating the ability of LPJ-GUESS to simulate the tree size structures of tropical forests

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Margot Jeanne Knapen; [2021]
    Keywords : tropical forests; tree size distributions; LPJ-GUESS; carbon; biomass; sensitivity analysis; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Tropical forests are of great importance to all living-beings due to their high biodiversity and the valu-able resources, such as food and fuel, they provide. In addition, tropical trees sequester a high amount of carbon and consequently over half of the global forest carbon stock can be found in the tropics. READ MORE

  5. 9. The representation of the Amazonian Rainforest in British Newspapers

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Francine Massignan Rinaldi Gouveia; [2020]
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    Abstract : This paper analyses the representation of the Amazonian rainforest as reported by British newspapers in August 2019. Through a combination ofFairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Approach and the news values theory of Galtung and Ruge, The CDA analysis examined the discourse as a text, as a discourse practice and as a social practice. READ MORE

  6. 10. Patterns of diversity of sex chromosomes and mitochondria in sub- Saharan African populations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Panagiotis-Ioannis Zervakis; [2020]
    Keywords : human evolution; population genetics; mitochondria; sex chromosomes; Africa; GATK;

    Abstract : Human genetic diversity is not distributed evenly around the globe, as it decreases along the route of modern human expansion, which originated in Africa. The ancestors of Khoe-San and rainforest hunter gatherers have been linked with the roots of human history and present unmatched diversity. READ MORE