On the rural Northwest coast of New Caledonia, the settlement of a world
class mining complex has initiated rapid socio-economic changes, linked
with a considerable demographic increase (+ 65% between 2007 and 2015)
and plentiful job opportunities. In 2007 and 2009, studies on fisheries and
commercialization of reef finfish and...
The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...