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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"plantation agriculture"”.
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Crafting Cannabinoid Capitalism: Health, Sustainability, and Regeneration in the United States
… efforts to envision and practice “regenerative agriculture" as a response to both the historical injustices of prohibition and the compounding challenges of climate change. Drawing on history, STS, and the anthropology of food, agriculture, and medicine, I show how the logics of the war on …
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
… on forced migration and the establishment of plantation agriculture in the lower South. This chapter tells the stories of enslaved people who were uprooted from their homes and forcibly moved, often through a process of prolonged encounter with the natural world, to new environments further …
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Remote Sensing Characterization of Ecosystem Structure and Functional Types to Inform on Biodiversity Conservation in the Lowland Chocó Rainforest
… a transitioning gradient from primary forest to plantation agriculture. The chapter assesses the associations between measures of ecosystem structure and functional attributes by examining in-situ collections of vertical air temperature profiles and UAV collections of diurnal land surface …
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Land, Labor, and Reform: Hill Carter, Slavery, and Agricultural Improvement at Shirley Plantation, 1816-1866
… and material culture history of the plantation has left Carter's role as one of Virginia's preeminent agricultural reformers virtually unexplored. Assuming ownership of Shirley in 1816, Carter quickly established himself as a leading proponent of agricultural improvement, both …
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The role of NGOs and sustainability standards in oil palm developments in Gabon and Cameroon
… been expressed about the fast expansion of large plantations of oil palm in tropical forest in African countries. However, in this same period, a large number of multinational companies made major commitments to eradicate deforestation in their palm oil supply chain. This thesis focuses on two …