Recently added articles from Focus on Geography:
The new Tibet.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Introduction The 1950 occupation of Tibet by China introduced a new ideology that prompted massive transformation to the traditional Lamaist society and economy. Based on geographic field studies in Tibet in the 1950s and field reconnaissance in Yarlung-Tsangpo Valley and other ...
Shangri La on the edge of Tibet.
Sep 22, 2009; ... (Physical and Cultural Backgrounds) The headwaters of three of Asia's great rivers the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Salween originate in the glaciers and snowfields of eastern Tibet. In their rush southward through China's Yunnan Province, the rivers carve the edge of the ...
Tibet: landscape of tradition and change.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Tibetans view the environment as an interrelated balance within which humans and nature coexist. Overconsumption of resources is discouraged, and the taking of life is forbidden by Buddhist practice. However, as traditional people meet the modern world, checkerboard patterns are carved ...
Amazonian oil exploration: a report on the historical facts of Texaco's operations.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Because of my past association with Texaco, which included oversight of oil and gas development and producing operations in Ecuador from 1988 to 1990, I am deeply concerned when unfounded accusations are made against the company's operations in that country. As a former President of the ...
Amazonian oil exploration: contradictions in culture and environment.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Adventure Ecology "I can't throw up," I whisper into the dark as we stand in an indigenous Achuar agricultural field in the Amazon. I have dutifully drunk my gourds of tea and am now trying to do this part of the ceremony correctly. I cannot do it. While researching ...