Maria Fadiman, Ph.D.

PUBLICATIONS

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Adventure/Environmental Essays

Global Chorus: 365 Voices of the

Future of the Planet

American Way Magazine

National Geographic Complete Survival Manual

No More Endlings: Saving Species

One Story at a Time

  Drunken Boat 16: Exploration

Academic Articles/Chapters

Fadiman, M. 2018. Can the Use of a Specific Species Influence Habitat Conservation? Case Study of the Palm  Iriartea Deltoidea in Northwestern Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography (Accepted for publication)  

Fadiman, M., M.B. Thomas, O.E. Morei, A. Hillman Kitalong, S. Hanser 2018. Globalization and Tradition in Palau:  Case Study of the Syncretic Omengat (First Child Birth Ceremony) and Nagasech Ceremonies.  Florida Geographer 47:1-30

Fadiman, M. 2016. Environmental Justice and the Lawn: Urban Parks in Shanghai, China. Florida Geographer 47:1-21

Fadiman M. 2015. “Everyday Reciprocity: What Works, What Does Not and the Area   in Between,”In D. Herman (ed.) Giving Back: Research and Reciprocity in  Indigenous Contexts (Accepted for Publication).

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Fadiman, M. 2014. Ecosystem Excitement: Using Everyday Items, Projects, Field Trips and Exotic Images to Connected Students to Plants. In C. Quave (ed.) pp.261-276. Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences, Springer: New York.

Fadiman, M. 2013.  Basketry, Conservation and Marketing of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis, (Araceae) in an Afro-Ecuadorian Community. pp 175-194 In R. Voeks and J.Rashford (eds) African Ethnobotany in the Americas, Springer: New York.

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Fadiman, M. 2011 Sustainable Development in the Galápagos: The Role of Coffee Production on San Cristobal Island. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 34:102-111

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Cordoba, H., Ivy, R. and Fadiman, M. 2011. Cultural and spatial perceptions of Miami’s Little Havana. The Florida Geographer 42: 4-33.

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Fadiman, M. 2010. Cultural Connect with Local Megafauna: Maori and the Kauri. The Florida Geographer 41:4-21.

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Fadiman, M. 2010. How Cultural Awareness and Ingenuity Benefits Forest Stewardship Council Certification in the Developing World: Case Study in Zimbabwe, Africa. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 33:75-84.

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Fadiman, M. 2009.  Amazonian Oil Exploration: Contradictions on Culture and Environment. FOCUS on Geography 52 (1): 1-10.

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Fadiman, M. 2009.  Wild Food Plants: Balancing Conservation and Utilization. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 32: 291-298.

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 Lakhan, S., Root, T. and Fadiman, M. 2009. Clean Water Accessibility in Northern Trinidad: Location, Collection, Storage and Socioeconomics.  The Florida Geographer 40: 48-61.

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Fadiman, M.  2008. Use of Mocora, Astrocaryum standleyanum (Arecaceae), by three ethnic groups ins Ecuador: differences, similarities and market potential. Journal of Ethnobiology Volume 28(1) 92-109.

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Fadiman, M. 2008.  “Starvation Taught me Art”: Tree Poaching, Gender and Cultural Shifts in Wood Curio Carving in Zimbabwe.  Ethnobotany Research and Applications 6: 335-346.

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Fadiman, M. 2008.  Resource Stewardship: Rain Forest Use among Three Ethnic Groups of Ecuador. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 31: 310-318.

Fadiman, M.  2008. Natural Resource Use and Cultural Change: Nipa Hut Shingle Processing with Nypa fruticans, Arecaceae, in Palawan, Philippines. The Florida Geographer 39: 20-35

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 Fadiman, M.  2007.  Exploring Conservation: Piguigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis, In Ecuador. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences. 30: 427-436.

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Fadiman, M.  2005. Cultivated Food Plants: Culture and Gendered Spaces of Colonists and the Chachi in Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 4, No.1: 43-57.

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Fadiman, M.  2004.  Management, Cultivation and Domestication of Weaving Plants: Heteropsis and Astrocaryum in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest. The California Geographer  44:1-19.

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Fadiman, M.   2001. Hat weaving with Jipi, Carludovica palmata, (Cyclanthaceae) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The Journal of Economic Botany 55(4):539-544.

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