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Creator:: Cameron, Olivia Z.
Abstract:: On a global scale, illicit economies have dramatic impacts on the physical environment. Cocaine trafficking has been recognized as a major driver of deforestation inside Central American protected areas. A key problem in studying and managing the environmental impacts of illicit economic activity is the difficulty in obtaining reliable data....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: trafficking in rural Central America is correlated to new patterns of explosive deforestation, a process

Creator:: Benway, Heather M.
Abstract:: Westward transport of water vapor across the Panama Isthmus helps to maintain the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, important in thermohaline circulation and global climate. Relatively low sea-surface salinities and a strong, shallow pycnocline in the eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high net precipitation. This

Creator:: Hayes, Daniel J., 1974-
Abstract:: Human activities are causing profound changes to the global environment, yet the potential consequences of these changes on rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change are not well understood. Improving our understanding of these processes requires an enhanced awareness of how global ecosystems are changing and how these changes affect...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Design and Objectives The rates of deforestation in Central America during the 1980’s were among

Creator:: Burgos, Enoc
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to update Honduran sea turtle information and to recommend alternatives for managing this resource.
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Status and Management of Sea Turtle Populations in Central America

Creator:: Geissler, Eric L.
Abstract:: During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS

Creator:: Hunter, Margaret
Abstract:: The purposes of this study are to observe how change in the culture of the Mayas is reflected in the change or development of the costume and to appreciate the greatness of this culture. The knowledge of the costume of these Mayas as a piece of information is not as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: geographical locations chosen comprise only parts of Central America and Flexico (Plate 1). Specific

Creator:: Smith, William Hoyt
Abstract:: The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: North, Central, and South America (Wolf, 1959: 34). In Mexico alone there are approximately two hundred

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