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Autore: | Jolly Alison |
Titolo: | Thank You, Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Zed Books, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina: | 333.72092 |
Soggetto topico: | Conservationists -- Biography |
Island ecology -- Madagascar | |
Jolly, Alison | |
Naturalists -- Biography | |
Nature conservation -- Madagascar | |
Nature conservation | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | |
Ecology | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | BradtHilary |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Thank You, Madagascar |
ISBN: | 1-78360-321-6 |
1-78360-319-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463712403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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