Tag: Tropics

Free Download Innovation-Driven Business and Sustainability in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology Conference 2023 (SEIGOP 2023) by Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Malobi Mukherjee, Jacob Wood
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 484 Pages | ISBN : 9819929083 | 30.5 MB
The edited volume presents the conference proceedings from the "Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Operational Psychology Conference 2023" (SEIGOP 2023), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University, Singapore.

Free Download Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation) by Julia E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk, Robert Nasi
English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1107117577 | 436 pages | PDF (True) | 16 Mb
The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity in the evolution of humans. It continues to be an essential source of food and a generator of income for millions of Indigenous and rural communities worldwide. Conservationists rightly fear that excessive hunting of many animal species will cause their demise, as has already happened throughout the Anthropocene. Many species of large mammals and birds have been decimated or annihilated due to overhunting by humans. If such pressures continue, many other species will meet the same fate. Equally, if the use of wildlife resources is to continue by those who depend on it, sustainable practices must be implemented. These communities need to remain or become custodians of the wildlife resources within their lands, for their own well-being as well as for biodiversity in general. This title is also available via Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Free Download Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, "Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment "
English | ISBN: 1478019190 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawaiʻi’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can-and must-be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawaiʻi and beyond.