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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"and Belize)"”.
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
The Caribbean has been variously and always arbitrarily defined. There are, however, three conceptions that are widely accepted by writers, commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
The Caribbean has been variously and always arbitrarily defined. There are, however, three conceptions that are widely accepted by writers, commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean …
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Visitor Impact Assessment and Management for Protected Areas in Central and South America
Ecotourism and protected area visitation have been steadily increasing in recent years in Central and South America, inevitably resulting in natural resource impacts. The consequences of such impacts may include natural resource degradation, diminished aesthetic qualities, or decreased …
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… with human rights organizations in New York City and Belize, Central America, this dissertation explores--through the prism of ethics--how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By ethics I mean the …
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Disputed Borderlands: Entangled Territories between the Spanish and British Empires in Colonial Central America, 1700-1787
… eighteenth-century Central America as a borderland disputed by three major powers: the British, Spanish and the Miskito. Interactions between these three powers had a major impact on the region’s development but were focused in three key areas. These areas, and the focus of the thesis, are the …
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Proxy records of paleohurricanes for the western and southern caribbean
… of abruptly alternating periods of hurricane landfall frequency for Nicaragua and Belize. Three Belizean transects exhibit an Active period (hyperactivity) occurring from ~2000-6000 cal yr BP, although dating is inconsistent across the transects. An Active period covering the last 500 years is …
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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Genetic Variation in Scarlet Macaws: Implications for Population Management in La Selva Maya, Central America
Advances in technology and molecular methodologies now provide an unprecedented view into the complex realm of natural populations by elucidating the degree and distribution of genetic variation, historical and contemporary processes driving differentiation, and individual behavior patterns. These …
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Geology, structure and metamorphism of the Chuacús Group, Rio Hondo Quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala
… out in the Rio Hondo, San Agustín Acasaguastlán, and El Cimiento quadrangles, east-central Guatemala. Its members, in structurally ascending order, are: the San Agustín Formation (cataclastic gneiss and migmatite), the Jones Formation (dominantly phyllite and mica schist), and the San Lorenzo …