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Natural resource use and cultural change: Nipa hut shingle processing with Nypa fruticans, Arecaceae, in Palawan, Philippines

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Type: Text
Year: 2008, 2008
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: Florida Society of Geographers
Description: Geographers are interested in how people utilize natural resources. The Philippines Nipa is the predominant mangrove species and plays an important role in the ecosystem. Cultural and economic uses make deforestation of the Nipa plant an important societal and environmental case to examine.
Full Text: Notice: This is a copy of a post print manuscript accepted. The published version is available in The Florida Geographer 39(2008)20-35 published by the Florida Society of Geographers. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 … Florida Society of …

Hat weaving with Jipi, Carludovica palmata (Cyclanthaceae) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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Type: Text
Year: 2001, 2001
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: The New York Garden Botanical Press
Description: Weaving hats with jipi, Carludovlca palmata (Cyclanthaceae) has built the local economy and cultural identity for the people of Becal, in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. They obtain most material from cultivated sources, weave in man-made caves, and market the goods to commercial centers. Because Jipi does not appear to deplete the sod, they do not need to clear more land for sustainable… more
Full Text: Notice: This article is an accepted post-print manuscript, published version is available in Economic Botany 55(4) pp 539-544 2001, The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY 10458-5126 USA HAT WEAVING WITH (CYCLANTHACEAE) JIP1, C A R L U D O V I C A …

Resource stewardship: rain forest use among three ethnic groups of Ecuador

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Type: Text
Year: 2008, 2008
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: Applied Geography Conferences, Inc.
Description: In looking at alternative forest use, it is imperative that the sustainability of these alternatives is addressed. This question is particularly pressing in The Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve in northwestern Ecuador. The two plant resources on which this study focuses, a palm and a hemi-epiphyte (a vine-like plant that germinates in the ground, grows up a tree, and then sends down aerial roots… more
Full Text: Notice: This article is an accepted post-print manuscript published in Papers of the Applied PapersConferences of the Applied Geography Conferences (2008) 31: 310-318 Geography (2008) 31: 310-318 Resource Stewardship: Rain Forest Use among Three Ethnic …

Cultivated food plants: culture and gendered spaces of colonists and the Chachi in Ecuador

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Type: Text
Year: 2005, 2005
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, University of Texas Press Journals http://sites.maxwell.syr.edu/clag/clag.htm
Description: Colonists and indigenous groups living in and around Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul Reserve cultivate various subsistence food plants. The data reveal various differences between the two groups in regards to gendered agricultural spaces. Colonists maintain distinct planting areas, while the Chachi do so less. While each group plants some of the same crops, their basic staples differ: rice for the… more
Full Text: Notice: This article is an accepted post-print manuscript, a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Latin American Geography following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through …

"Starvation taught me art": Tree poaching, gender and cultural shifts in wood curio carving in Zimbabwe

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Type: Text
Year: 2008, 2008
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: Ethnobotany Research and Applications
Description: This study looks at wood curio carving in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa. Although the local people, Ndebele and Shona, have always carved, they now face a weakened economy, due in large part to land reforms in 2000. Thus, more people sculpt wood as a form of livelihood. As one man said “Starvation taught me art”. As a result, gender roles are shifting as men and women begin to enter realms… more
Full Text: “Starvation Taught Me Art”: Tree Poaching, Gender and Cultural Shifts in Wood Curio Carving in Zimbabwe Maria Fadiman Research Abstract This study looks at wood curio carving in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa. Although the local people, Ndebele and …

Exploring conservation: Piquigua, Heteropsis Ecuadorensis, in Ecuador

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Type: Text
Year: 2007, 2007
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: Applied Geography Conferences, Inc.
Description: Colonists and indigenous groups living in and around Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul Reserve cultivate various subsistence food plants. The data reveal various differences between the two groups in regards to gendered agricultural spaces. Colonists maintain distinct planting areas, while the Chachi do so less. While each group plants some of the same crops, their basic staples differ: rice for the… more
Full Text: Notice: This author manuscript was published in 427-436 the Papers of the Applied Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (2007) 30: Geography Conferences (2007) 30: 427-436 EXPLORING CONSERVATION: PIQUIGUA, HETEROPSIS ECUADORENSIS, IN ECUADOR Maria …

Mangement, cultivation, and domestication of weaving plants: Heteropsis and Astrocaryum in the Ecuadorian rain forest

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Type: Text
Year: 2004, 2004
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Fadiman, Maria
Publisher: The California Geographical Society
Description: The author examines the management and cultivation of two plants in the Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve, northwestern Ecuador. The plants in this study, a hemiepiphyte, Heteropsis ecuadorensis, (Araceae), commonly called piqigua and a plam, Astrocaryum standleyamon (Arecaceae), commonly called mocora, provide weaving fiber to make baskets, mats, and smaller woven articles. Although most people… more
Full Text: Notice: This article is a copy of a post print manuscript the author Maria Fadiman of Florida Atlantic University's Department of Geosciences wrote while a faculty member at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida and published in The California …

Cross-cultural comparison of plant use knowledge in Baitadi and Darchula districts, Nepal Himalaya

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Type: Text
Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Bussmann, Rainer W., Cameron, Mary, Fadiman, Maria, Kunwar, Ripu M., Rimal, Bhagawat, Sapkota, Prabhat, Thapa-Magar, Khum B.
Full Text: Kunwar et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2018) 14:40 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-018-0242-7 RESEARCH Open Access Cross-cultural comparison of plant use knowledge in Baitadi and Darchula districts, Nepal Himalaya Ripu M. Kunwar1,2* , …

FAU Climate Change Initiative Priority Theme: Research, Engineering, and Adaption to a Change Climate

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Type: Text
Year: 2010, 2010, 2010, 2010
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Alvarez, R., Arockiasamy, Madasamy, Benscoter, Brian, Berry, Leonard, Bloetscher, Frederick, Brown, Clifford T., Carvalho, G., Comas, Xavier, Dalgleish, Fraser R., Devlin, Donna, Dhanak, Manhar R., Edwards, A., Escaleras, Monica, Esnard, Ann-Margaret, Fadiman, Maria, Frisk, George V., Gerstein, E., Hanisak, M. Dennis, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Hardman, Guillermo [John], Heimlich, Barry N., Herzing, Denise L., Hindle, Tobin, Jolley, J., Kaisar, Evangelos I., Kalva, Hari, Koch, Marguerite, Lambert, Julie, McAfee, Francis, McMulloch, S., Meeroff, Daniel E., Mehallis, M., Milton, Sarah L., Mitsova, Diana, Murley, J., O'Corry-Crowe, Gregory, Oleinik, Anton E., Pomponi, Shirley A., Proffitt, C. Edward, Reed, John K., Restrepo, Jorge I., Rodriguez, Jarice, Root, Tara L., Scarlatos, Panagiotis (Pete) D., Scarpa, John, Shankar, Ravi, Shaw, Eric H., Teegavarapu, Ramesh, Thomas, G., Vos, J., Voss, Joshua, Widener, Patricia, Wyneken, Jeanette, Xie, Zhixiao, Zhang, Xing-Hai
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Full Text: FAU CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE PRIORITY THEME: RESEARCH, ENGINEERING, AND ADAPTATION TO A CHANGING CLIMATE “I am persuaded that global climate change is one of the most important issues that we will face this century…” Florida Governor Charlie Crist “Let …