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"

Greater Antilles: Karst

Sweeting, "The Karstlands of Jamaica" and Gibbons, "Greening Haiti, Tree by Tree"

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: 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"

Tramp in the Darien

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

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

McSweeney and Coomes, "Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras"

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"

A very well done 1 1/2 hour video documenting environmental and cultural changes after 1492 can be found by clicking Here.

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"

An excellent video clip showing henequen production can be found by clicking Here.

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"

An interesting website discussing the production of vanilla can be found by clicking Here.

Eastern Mexico: Texas Competitor

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

Southern High/Low Lands: 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 High/Low Lands: (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"

Optional reading: Fry, "From Crops to Concrete: Urbanization, Degriculturalization, and Construction Material Mining in Central Mexico"

A couple of excellent websites featuring aerial photographs taken of Mexico City from a helicopter can be found Here and Here.

The Mexicans: Through Their 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: Serrana

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

Wilder, et al., "Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
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