Overview
- This is the first book that focus on the problem of water in the desert of Mexico
- This book explains the historical and social reasons for its disappearance
- The book explores not only the problem but also gives hope for the future through education and change in policy
Part of the book series: Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis (CUCIBA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
María del Carmen Mandujano studied Biology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), and obtained her PhD from the National Autonomous University (UNAM), prior to completing her postdoctoral studies at New Mexico State University. She is currently a researcher at UNAM’s Ecology Institute, where she has been studying various ecological aspects of cacti in Cuatro Ciénegas and Mapimí, in the Chihuahuan Desert, and more recently in the drylands of Querétaro. She has made important contributions to the demography, life history and floral biology of desert plants, especially in cacti. She is the editor of Revista Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas.
Irene Pisanty studied Biology at the School of Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also obtained her Master’s degree in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. She is currently an Associate Professor at the same School of Sciences, where she teaches on ecology, population ecology, natural resources and life histories. She is also interested in the implementation of environmental policies based on sound scientific knowledge and worked as a project manager for Ecosystem Conservation at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (1995-1998), and as a senior advisor to the president of the National Institute of Ecology (INE) (2001-2007). She is currently exploring the responses of soils and plants to water overexploitation and the disturbances it is producing in the Basin, as well as the functional responses of plants in gypsum environments.
Luis E. Eguiarte studied Biology at the School of Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he completed his PhD in Ecology in 1990. He subsequently did a postdoc at the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, under the direction of Professor Michael Clegg. He joined UNAM as an Associate Professor in 1992, and is currently a professor at its Department of Evolutionary Ecology. In 2011 he was awarded the Faustino Miranda Medal by the Institute of Ecology, UNAM, in recognition of his outstanding academic contributions to Ecology. In his research, he studies the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that generate diversity and adaptation in different organisms, in addition to conservation genetics and the domestication of Mexican plants. He has studied these problems in plants (including Agave, Abies, Bursera, Cucurbita and Zea), in bacteria, in particular in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, in the Chihuahuan desert, and in various species of mammals and birds, using modern genetic and statistical methods and genomic data.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conflicts Between Biodiversity Conservation and Humans
Book Subtitle: The Case of the Chihuahua Desert and Cuatro Ciénegas
Editors: Valeria Souza, María C. Mandujano, Irene Pisanty, Luis E. Eguiarte
Series Title: Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83270-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83269-8Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83272-8Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83270-4Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7284
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conservation Biology/Ecology, Biodiversity, Environmental Policy, Environmental and Sustainability Education