1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463712403321

Autore

Jolly Alison

Titolo

Thank You, Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Zed Books, 2015

ISBN

1-78360-321-6

1-78360-319-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

Soggetti

Conservationists -- Biography

Island ecology -- Madagascar

Jolly, Alison

Naturalists -- Biography

Nature conservation -- Madagascar

Nature conservation

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword ; Introduction: My Adventurous and Astonishing Mother ; Chronology of Events ; Dramatis Personae ; Map of Madagascar ; 1 'Our Country Is Committing Suicide' ; Part I: Villages ; 2: Dancing in the Rainforest ; 3: Burning Baobabs;  Death of Children ; 4: David Attenborough, Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur, and School among the Baobabs; 5: Eleanor and the Aye-Ayes; Part II: Politics; 6: Where Indri Sing; 7: Napoleon versus the Zoos; 8: The Bank Corrals the Donors; 9: Dishing Out the Dough

10: Our Cash Killed Bedo11: The Bank Goes to the Forest; Part III: Environment and Development; 12: Golden Bamboo Lemurs of Ranomafana; 13: Patricia Walked the Boundaries; 14: The Village of the Fig Tree; 15: Development Meltdown; 16: Real Life and Dreamworks; 17: President Ratsiraka; 18: Madame Berthe was Dancing; Part IV:



Weather; 19: Famine in the South; 20: Lemurs Coping; 21: Scientists, People, Lemurs: Berenty, Bezà Mahafaly and Tsimanampetsotsa; 22: Climate Change; Part V: Money; 23: Durban Vision;  Rosewood Massacre; 24: The New Mines; 25: Where are We Now?; References ; Photographs

Photographic Credits Index ; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Thank You, Madagascar is an eyewitness account of attempts to rescue the extraordinary biodiversity of Madagascar and the environment of its people.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132599403321

Autore

Tahon Marie-Blanche

Titolo

Islamité et féminin pluriel / / Marie-Blanche Tahon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2008

ISBN

1-4123-6298-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3221

Disciplina

305.409

Soggetti

Women - Philosophy

Feminism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia