The Geopolitics and Ecopolitics of the Río San Juan

Situated between two oceans and two countries in Central America, the Rio San Juan is both a transisthmian route and a transborder region. As a corridor between the Caribbean and the Pacific, the river has attracted foreign geopolitical designs. As a transborder region between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the river's watershed served the development of a distinct social and economic network that supported two recent wars. Nevertheless, several Rio Sanjuan environments remain little disturbed, especially the western and eastern wetlands and the tropical forest on the northern side of the river. A large transborder protected area-SIAPAZis being developed as a joint Costa Rica-Nicaragua effort to conserve the largest rain forest north of the Amazon. SIAPAZ will provide alternative economic opportunities for people who otherwise would be felling the forest for timber and farms. The project will test the strategy of protecting environments as a principal means of promoting peaceful development.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Sociales::Facultad de Ciencias Sociales::Escuela de Geografí

Hunting and fishing focus among the Miskito Indians, eastern Nicaragua

The amounts of native animals taken in hunting and fishing by Amerind peoples are almost unknown. The interrelationships of cultural and ecological systems determine to a large extent hunting and fishing returns, focus, and strategies. This study presents data obtained in a coastal Miskito Indian village in eastern Nicaragua. Measurements were made of meat yields by species and of the time and distance inputs involved in securing fish and game. Hunting and fishing focus and strategies are adaptive mechanisms enabling the Miskito to achieve high and dependable returns from a limited number of species. Several factors are examined which influence hunting and fishing focus: dietary preferences and prohibitions, costs involved, differential productivity and dependability of particular species, seasonality and scheduling, and the impact of cash market opportunities for faunal resources. Under the impetus of population growth and rising aspirations, the Miskito's efforts to secure increasing numbers of animals for both subsistence and market are leading to severe pressures on selected species and to cultural and ecological disruptions .Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44475/1/10745_2005_Article_BF01791280.pd

Los indios Rama de la Costa Atlántica

Con relación a este grupo étnico de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua, se describen los siguientes aspectos: Geografía, Historia, Vivienda, Matrimonio con forasteros, Enfermedades, Sociedad cerrada y Lucha por sobrevivir. Estudio que data de 1974. Este artículo es la traducción de uno de los capítulos del libro “Between Land and Water”, tesis Doctoral de Bernard Nietschmann. (Traducción del Doctor Jaime Íncer Barquero

Caribbean edge : the coming of modern times to isolated people and wildlife

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