14 January 2013
The French National Forestry Office (ONF) is a public agency. As part of its sustainable management of public forests it draws up forest management plans covering a 20 to 30 year timespan for each forest. The usage management plans are based on the latest knowledge of the natural environment (based...
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17 October 2012
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Landscape archaeology combines various ways of studying the environment and apprehends the natural habitat as a territory that has been populated, transformed, and farmed according to the specific needs of its inhabitants. It studies the relationship between man and his environment so as to better understand the way ancient communities...
8 April 2012
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The settlement of the Guianas started in the Paleo-Indian period, although there is no direct archaeological proof making it possible to specify exactly when this took place. The climate conditions were drier and human groups lived in a landscape made up of dense humid forest on the higher land, dry...
AMAZONIA 2009 – protected areas and indigenous territories
Compiled and edited by: the Amazonian Network for Geographical Socio-Economic Information (RAISG)
The "Amazonia 2009" map is the first work produced by the Amazonian Network for Geographical Socio-Economic Information (RAISG), a grouping of various governmental research institutions and civil society organisations in Brazil, Peru,...
By Réseau Amazonien d’Information Socio-environnementale Géographique (RAISG)
22 January 2012
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French Guiana’s coastline is over 300 kilometres long and made up primarily of all but inaccessible virgin mangrove forests, with the exception of a few rocky outcrops which have been built on, such as the Cayenne Peninsula and the estuary of the River Kourou. The rivers flow into the Atlantic...
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