This chapter addresses the specific role of insects as flower visitors. The role of visitors as both pollinators and nectar-robbers is examined by providing examples drawn from very few studies ...conducted in locations within the Guiana Shield. The trends of pollinator and plant diversity are analysed, and the paucity of concrete information from the region is highlighted.
This paper discusses the conditions of Suriname's interior and the technical feasibility of large-scale logging in the light of the sustainability. It is uncertain if the CELOS Management System ...(CMS), a supposedly sustainable logging system developed in Suriname, is truly sustainable when applied to the forests of the interior. The land-scape types in the interior are considered difficult to work in with heavy equipment and can generally be considered erosion-prone. Large-scale logging in the Interior would be comparable in size and tempo with ecosystem changes by prehistoric climate changes; consequently special protective measures would be warranted and could be based on the Refuge Theory. Biodiversity would be effected and ought to be preserved in-situ. Indigenous peoples living in the forest could be affected through land-resource use conflicts. Current developments in the forestry sector in Suriname are not encouraging and call for caution with respect to future developments. It is suggested here that the best way to tackle new developments, such as large-scale forestry, is to subject them to an environmental impact assessment, preferably at an early, strategic stage. Finally, a set of rules and procedures is proposed in an attempt to define some modalities for large-scale logging in Suriname; some conditionalities are added.
Loci Sacri Coomans, Thomas; De Dijn, Herman; De Maeyer, Jan ...
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Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied ...multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are points where holy times and holy places meet. Sacred places are places apart. It is this specificity in the context of the Christian religions of the West that Loci Sacri wishes to unveil by bringing together specialists from various disciplines, countries, and Christian denominations. One of the questions is why some sites have for centuries proven to be so popular while others have not. Another topic is the way in which extraordinary natural sites have been designated as sacred and given new meaning, primarily by means of architecture. Loci Sacri also explores the ‘eternal' character of this sacred status.
INTRODUCTION RAJESH HEYNICKX; THOMAS COOMANS; HERMAN DE DIJN ...
Loci Sacri,
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Although the essential condition for something to be considered ‘sacred’, worthy of spiritual respect, or for it to inspire awe seems to be being set apart, this does not imply that its relationship ...with the non-sacred vanishes. On the contrary, as Louis Dupré remarked: “The sacred isinthe profane. It stands out but it belongs to the same universe as its other dimension”.¹ But how can such an eccentric dimension be imagined or felt and, most of all, what secures its existence? The answer is ‘symbols’. Objects, images, walls, written words, sounds or sculptures can all function as energizing
