Readings

Introduction

Foote, "Where Columbus Was Coming From"

Landscapes and Regions

Olwig, "Landscapes: The Lowenthal Legacy"

Lesser Antilles: Trade Winds

Cervany and Hobgood, "Meteorological Implications of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus"

A few interesting websites about volcanoes are Mt. Pelee, West Indies, Caribbean Volcanoes, and Dominica Public Seismic Network.

Lesser Antilles: Colonialism

Galloway, "Botany in the Service of the Empire"

Lesser Antilles: Demography

Conway and Glesne "Rural Livelihood, Return Migration, and Remittances in St. Vincent"

Caribbean Cool

Nelson, "Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations "

An interesting and informative website about birds and ecotourism in the Lesser Antilles can be found by clicking on  Asa Wright Nature Centre and Lodge

Greater Antilles: Karst

Sweeting, "The Karstlands of Jamaica"

Greater Antilles: Agriculture

The New Economist, "Fidel's Sustainable Farmers"; Rudel, Perez-Lugo, and Zichal, "When Fields Revert to Forest: Development and Spontaneous Reforestation in Post-War Puerto Rico"

Greater Antilles: Urban

Aide and Grau, "Globalization, Migration, and Latin American Ecosystems"

Caribbean Central America: Tropics

O'Brien, "Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change: What Does the Record Reveal"

A link to the Smithsonian Institution's Tropical Research Center in Panama can be found by clicking Here
An interesting and informative website containing real-time images of environmental change in Central America can be found by clicking Here

Caribbean Central America: Bananas

Dana, "Nicaragua's 'GPSistas':  Mapping Their Lands on the Caribbean Coast"

To learn more about Panama disease which greatly affected the geography of Banana production in Central America click  Here .

Caribbean Central America: Canals

Frenkel, "Jungle Stories: North American Representations of Tropical Panama"

A cool link on the Panama Canal--including real time video of lock operations--can be found Here.

Caribbean Central America: Panorama

Sundberg, "Strategies for Authenticity, Space, and Place in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Péten, Guatemala"

Tramp in the Darien

Herlihy, "Settlement and Subsistence Change Among the Choco Indians of the Darien Province, Eastern Panama: An Overview"

Pacific Central America: Dry Forests

Incer, "Volcanic Activity is Intense in Central America"

Pacific Central America: Tenure

Revels, "Coffee in Nicaragua:  Introduction and Expansion in the Nineteenth Century"

Forest Management

Bass, "Forty Years and More Trees.

Pacific Central America: Devulneropility

Arbona, "Commercial Agriculture and Agrochemicals in Almolonga, Guatemala"

Yucatan: Flat

Wilson and Williams, "A Coastal Ecosystem in Northwestern Yucatan"

Yucatan: Maya

Dunning, et al., "Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization"

Eastern Mexico: Hydrology

Hudson, "Discharge, Sediment, and Channel Characteristics of the Rio Panuco, Mexico"

Eastern Mexico: Ranching

Sluyter, "The Ecological Origins and Consequences of Cattle Ranching in Sixteenth-Century New Spain"

Eastern Mexico: Texas Competitor

Philip, "Petroleum in Mexico"

Southern Highlands: Fragility

Nolan, "Impact of Paricutin on Five Communities"

Southern Highlands: (In)accessibility

Lambert, "Regional Core-Periphery Imbalance"

Food as Geography

Works and Hadley, "Hace Cincuenta Años: Repeat Photography and Landscape Change in the Sierra Perepecha of Michoacan, Mexico"

An informative website dealing with regional cuisines of Mexico can be found by clicking HERE.

Mesa Central: Basins

Aguilar, et al. "The Basin of Mexico"

Mesa Central: Ancient Accomplishments

Williams and Jorge y Jorge, "Aztec Arithmetic Revisited: Land-Area Algoriths and Acolhua Congruence Arithmetic"

Two excellent websites illustrating chinampas can be found by clicking Here and Here.

Mesa Central: Haciendas

Licate, "Creation of a Mexican Landscape"

Mesa Central: "The" City

Executive Summary, "The Mexico National Emissions Inventory"

An excellent website featuring aerial photographs taken of Mexico City from a helicopter can be found Here.

El Bajío and the West

Casagrande, "The Five Nations of Mexico," and Bjorhus "Empowerment or Exploitation? Guadalajara Draws Tech Workers"

Mesa del Norte: Mining and Forestry

Felger and Dahl et al., "Northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Its Apachian Outliers: A Neglected Center of Biodiversity"

Mesa del Norte: Cityscapes

Vellinga, "Economic Internationisation and Regional Response: The Case of North Eastern Mexico"

The Northwest: Hot and Dry

Balling, et al., "Impacts of Land Degradation on Historical Temperature Records from the Sonoran Desert"

The Northwest: Cucurpe

Perramond, "Desert Traffic: The Dynamics of the Drug Trade in Northwestern Mexico"

The Northwest: Breadbasket

Nabhan, "Mexico's Breadbasket of Toxins and Migrants"

One River, One Country

Liverman, et al. "Environmental Issues Along the United States-Mexico Border: Drivers of Change
and Responses of Citizens and Institutions"
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Created by William E. Doolittle. Last revised 21 May 2008, wed