Readings

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, Martinique , 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

Sletto and students , "El Rincon de los Olivadados "

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"

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"

Pacific Central America: Devulneropility

Arbona, "Commercial Agriculture and Agrochemicals in Almolonga, Guatemala," Bass, "Forty Years and More Trees"

Sales On, Sails Up: Its Dia de la Raza

Foote, "Where Columbus Was Coming From"

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

Yoder, "The Geography of Mexican Maritime Ports: Globalization, Neoliberalization, and Evolving Lanscapes of Trade "

Southern Highlands: Fragility

Nolan, "Impact of Paricutin on Five Communities"

An interesting website dealing with trees in the state of Oaxaca can be found by clicking Here.

Southern Highlands: (In)accessibility

Lambert, "Regional Core-Periphery Imbalance"

An interesting website dealing with indigenous people and issues of land rights can be found by clicking Here.

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

Perramond, "The Rise, Fall, and Reconfigurations of the Mexican Ejido"

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.

Mexicans: Through Their Own Eyes

Paz, "The Sons of La Malinche"

El Bajío and the West

Casagrande, "The Five Nations of Mexico," and The News,"Study says tequila rules creating local hangover "

Mesa del Norte: Mining and Forestry

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

An excellent website with video clips of a unique wetland in the Chihuahuan Desert can be found Here.

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 12 October 2009, wed