| Reference | First Name | Last Name | Report Title | Description | Year Published |
| ERC001 | Debbie | Mendel | Cultural Change in the Transnational Garifuna Community; A Case Study from Hopkins Village, Belize | ..this paper is to bridge the effect of Garifuna transnationalism to the development of their emerging transnational culture… process will help to explain the ethno-genesis of the Garifuna identity & their resultant transformation across social & demography | 30 April, 2004 |
| ERC002 | Edgar | Ek | Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Belize, 1993 - 2003: A Digital Change Detection Approach. | The main objectives of this research is not only to show that landscape changes are occurring in Belize but most importantly to quantify and measure the extent of change, and assess both patterns of change and changes of pattern. | August, 2004 |
| ERC003 | Ivar | Schout | A Score to Settle: A Research into the Organisation of the two rival Belizean football federations. | The aim of this study is to describe the world of football in Belize and how football in this country is organized. | February, 2004 |
| ERC004 | Arjan | Verhoeven | A Case Study of Forty Years Amandala; A Belizean National Newspaper. | The research at hand focuses on Amandala newspaper but also gives insight into the Belizean Print-media industry and the historical developments this industry went through and how people active in this industry today see the future, Belize and Amandala. | 2006 |
| ERC005 | Carlos | Aparicio | Juridical Aspects of the Anglo-Guatemalan Controversy: in re Belize | May, 1951 | |
| ERC006 | Anne | MaCpherson | ' Those Men Were so Coward': The Gender Politics of Social Movements and State Formation in Belize, 1912-1982 | 1998 | |
| ERC007 | Cecilia | Thompson | Women Entrepreneurs in Belize: Creating Successful Businesses Despite Obstacles and Challenges. | The purpose of this thesis was to find out how women in Belize in spite of their many obstacles and challenges have created successful businesses and how women elsewhere undergo the same challenges have been successful at creating and managing their own b | June, 2005 |
| ERC008 | Thomas | Rainwater | Ecotoxicology of Morelet's Crocodile in Belize | August, 2003 | |
| ERC009 | Hertha | Gentle-Barber | Effects of Minimum Wage Increase on The Belizean Retail Sector | The objective of this study was to investigate and analyze the effects that an upward adjustment of minimum wages has on the level of employment and compliance in the Belizean retail sector. | 2006 |
| ERC010 | Carol | Fonseca | "Dis Ya Time No Stan Like Bifoe Time" (Re) Thinking A Nation's Literature: Constructions of Women in Belizean Literature 1953-2003. | This thesis aims to be an informed, historically contextualized study of the development of Belizean writings over the past fifty years, with specific attention being paid to literary constructions of women. | 2005 |
| ERC011 | Myrte | Berendse | Belize, the Caribbean Gateway to the Hidden Maya World. The role of the government and tourism entrepreneurs in developing and representing a tourism destination | January, 2004 | |
| ERC012 | William | Driver | Chac Balam, Belize: Excavations and Architecture | The study describes and interprets the excavations conducted at the site of Chac Balam, Ambergris Caye, Belize | May, 1991 |
| ERC013 | Therese | Strom | Successful Ecotourism and Partnerships, Is There a Relationship? | the study will debate the importance of tourism partnerships in its ecotourism industry. Further more it will consider factors vital for the implementation of successful tourism partnerships. | April, 1997 |
| ERC014 | Tessa | Matus | The Anglo-Guatemalan Dispute Seems to Defy Solution | May, 1998 | |
| ERC015 | Leslie | Grimes | Co-Management and Community: A Case Study of St. Margarets Village | The purpose of this study is to identify the attitudes toward Five Blues Lake by the residents of St. Margaret's Village. And how does the Association of Five Blues Lake (the managing NGO) relate to and influence co-management of the park. | 2004 |
| ERC016 | Lyndsay | Buckingham | Visitor impact Analysis and Management Adaptation of Goff’s Caye | In accordance with this study a Visitor's Impact Analysis will be conducted that will focus on the biophysical aspect of tourism on the reef system and on the island. There are two components, a snorkeling survey and a visitor's questionnaire. | 2004 |
| ERC017 | Sharon | Cech | Mosquito Control on Caye Caulker | The objectives of this study were to identify the species of mosquitoes inhabiting Caye Caulker, analyze the potential dangers to the wildlife and people on the island associated with the spraying of malathion as mosquito control agent, and then explore the efficacy of implementing a Bacillus thuringiensis israelenis based insecticide as a safe and economically viable alternative method of mosquito control. | 2004 |
| ERC018 | Becca | Wait | Childhood in the Village of San Jose Succotz | The purpose of this 5 week study was to document one small piece of childhood in Belize; the experiences of children in the village of San Jose Succotz in the Cayo District. | April, 2005 |
| ERC019 | Erin | Collinson | Ethical Trade in the Toledo District | This paper will examine and introduction to fair trade and organic certifications from the perspective of the world producer, through a case study of the Toledo Cacao Growers Association. I will further identify the arguments for and against the expansion of the Fairtrade mark and attempt to make predictions for the future of the fair trade movement. | January, 2004 |
| ERC020 | Peter | Dunham | Coming Apart At The Seams: The Classic Development and Demise of Maya Civilization ( A Segmentary View From Xnaheb, Belize) | This Dissertation contends not only that Maya polities were segmentary but that the segmentary state construct provides important insights into the processes behind the development and demise of Maya Civilization. | 1990 |
| ERC021 | Kelly | Washburn | An Exploration of Traditional Midwife in Belize | The purpose of this study is to learn about the practices and medicinal plants used by local midwives. This independent project took place in the Cayo District of Belize, specifically in and around San Ignacio Town. | 2004 |
| ERC022 | Zach | Fonner | A Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of the Tourism Development Project. | This independent Study Project focuses on the sites of Cahal Pech, Xunantunich, and Caracol, three of the six TDP sites. The objective of the Independent Study Project is to assess the work done at the sites and to see if the TDP work will positively impact the economic well-being of the people and communities around these three TDP sites. | 2004 |
| ERC023 | Rebecca | Kirlin | Solid and Liquid Waste Assessment for Seine Bight | The objective of this independent study project are: to assess the current situation of waste in Seine Bight, to determine its possible effects on the marine and estuarine environments, as well as risk to public health and to make recommendations for sustainable development. | 2004 |
| ERC024 | Rebecca | Tannebring | Spirituality in Traditional Healing: A Case study conducted in Western Cayo | This study aims to determine the role of spirituality in traditional healing and people’s conception of plants in healing the Western Cayo district of Belize. By looking at the history of healing through to its current role in society, this study focused on finding means to comprehend what forces and attitudes are impacting healing and people’s perceptions of what aids a cure. | 2004 |
| ERC025 | Melissa | Vasquez | An Assessment of Snorkeling Impact on Coral Mortality at Lighthouse Reef, Belize. | This Study examined the impact of recreational snorkeling on coral mortality in four sites on the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize. (at Half-moon Caye Natural Monument and on site at Long Caye. | 2004 |
| ERC026 | Shannon | Carroll | An Economic Assessment of the Queen Conch Fishery in Belize | The goal of this study was to investigate and report the economic value of the Queen Conch, find out how a possible change in regulations would either harm or benefit fishermen, and to see what those involved in the Queen Conch fishery (fisheries officers, cooperative managers, fishermen, etc.) | 2004 |
| ERC027 | Michelle | Domocol | Orchid Micropropagation at University of Belize. | This independent study probelematizes the University’s management of the laboratory infrastructure and activity. The investigation of management will determine how and why the laboratory’s capability has reached its current status. | 2004 |
| ERC028 | Candace | Fallon | From the Bush to the Bar: Contribo in Western Cayo | The Purpose of this study is threefold: to briefly document past uses of contribo, to assess its current uses and to analyze the local beliefs and practices of this vine in the Cayo District (including San Ignacio, Cristo Rey, Santa Familia, Santa Elena and Bullet Tree). | 2004 |
| ERC029 | Joel | Frijhoff | Hidden Waterfalls. A Description of Entrepreneurs and their Strategies in the Tourism Industry in Belize | This thesis will deal with the involvement of small-scale entrepreneurs in the tourism sector in the Toledo District in Belize. This study will take place in this theoretical void and will focus on different types of entrepreneurs and the strategies these entrepreneurs use to handle their business. Discussion of: What are small-scale entrepreneurs, their motivations to open a business, how they are classified, what problems they face and how they deal with them. | March, 2006 |
| ERC030 | Clarence | Borland | An Economic Study of Domestic Food Production in Belize | Objectives of Study: outline the main factors - price, marketing, population, income, - which affect the production and the consumption of food; highlight major operations of the farming systems as practiced by both Milperos and the Mennonites; examine why Milperos have not significantly increased their output unlike Mennonites, discuss possible improvement to the Milpa System. | 1975 |
| ERC031 | Michael | Camille | A Historical Geography of Toledo Settlement, Belize, 1868-1985: A Transition from Confederate to East Indian Landscapes. | The purpose of this research is to reconstruct in detail the Confederate and East Indian Landscapes at their respective peaks, 1890 and 1985. For this periods, emphasis is placed on material culture, agricultural activities, and the transportation network. This paper provides the only case of the settlement where the two currents of out migration have converged. | May, 1986 |
| ERC032 | David | Lewis | The Chinese of Belize: A Geographical Interpretation | This study will provide further insight into the dynamics and motives behind overseas migrations by the Chinese group. This research emphasizes their economic activity, variety, spatial pattern and impact. In addition, examination of the Belizean Chinese in a geographical context can provide an increased understanding of the economic role of these immigrants in economically underdeveloped former colonies. | May, 1989 |
| ERC033 | Gregory | Gruszczynski | Fifty Years of Buses: A Case Study of the Bus System in Belize | The objective of this study is to assess the role and impact of the bus transportation system in Belize and to relate it to national development processes. | May, 1989 |
| ERC034 | Francisca | Norales | Belizean Secondary School Teachers' Judgments of Discipline and problems and Belizean Secondary School Students' Attitudes Toward Education | One purpose of this study was to identify which student behaviors teachers judged as discipline problems. This study reflected those attitudes that students in Belize hold toward their education. | August, 1980 |
| ERC035 | Clara | Pastor | Education in Belize: History and Current Issues | This study examines the evolution of preschool, primary and secondary education in Belize fro the period 1816-1994 in relation to access, quality, effectiveness and efficiency in the use of available resources. This study concludes that although preschool, primary and secondary education has expanded, much still remains to be done to provide equal access, and improve its quality, effectiveness and efficiency. | March, 1995 |
| ERC036 | Marvin | Frost | A Biogeographically Analysis of Some Relationships between Man, Land, and Wildlife in Belize (British Honduras) | The thesis is an investigation into changes in status of certain wildlife species in Belize and an effort to correlate these changes with hunting pressure and habitat changes, especially those resulting from influences of man. The analysis is confined to Belize with supporting data drawn from similar areas of other parts of Middle America. | June, 1974 |
| ERC037 | Andre | Parvenu | Refugee Migration and Settlement in Belize: The Valley of Peace Project | The purpose of this thesis is to provide a general understanding of refugee migration and settlement in Belize: its historical and contemporary impact of refugee settlement on Belizean Society; history and development of the Valley of Peace Project as a case study of refugee resettlement in C.A.; etc. | 1986 |
| ERC038 | Michael | Stone | Caribbean Nation, Central American State: Ethnicity, Race, and national Formation in Belize, 1798-1990 | This essay outlines an ethno history of the material and ideological circumstances pertaining to the insertion of the principal ethnic groups into the colonial polity, and their historical constitution as social entities. My concern is with the hegemonic fashioning of groups as ethnicities, as a matter of maintaining cultural and political consent, as I am concerned with the mutability of group identities, and with the dynamics of group redefinition through social struggle. | May, 1994 |
| ERC039 | Lauren | Sullivan | PreClassic Domestic Architecture at Colha, Belize | The primary objectives of this study were to determine the function of buildings composing residential communities, to excavate presumed house mounds, to determine form and function of these buildings, and to establish relative dates with ceramic chronologies. | December, 1991 |
| ERC040 | Susan | Jaeger | Settlement Pattern Research at Caracol, Belize: The Social Organization in a Classic Period Maya Site | The purpose of this research has been to begin understanding the social organization of a major Maya center which, based on the political statements recorded in the hieroglyphic monuments, influenced the histories of other Maya polities and of the Maya world during the Late Classic period. | 21 October, 1991 |
| ERC041 | Edna | Koenig | Ethnicity and Language in Corozal District, Belize: An Analysis of Code Switching | This work is a case study of the verbal behavior of a speech community in which a number of distinct ethnic groups have routine social interaction. The focal point of this study of bilingualism was on inter-group communication in Corozal Town. | January, 1975 |
| ERC042 | Angel | Cal | Anglo Maya Contact in Northern Belize: A Study of British Policy Towards the Maya During the Caste War of Yucatan, 1847-1872 | 18 April, 1983 | |
| ERC043 | Elaine | Bliss | Women in Tropical Agriculture: A Case Study of the Garifuna (Black Carib) in Hopkins, Belize | In this study, I have examined in detail the role of women in farming in a single Garifuna Village in Belize (Hopkins), | December, 1989 |
| ERC044 | Minita | Gordon | Attitudes and Motivation in Second Language Achievement: A Study of Primary School Students Learning English in Belize, Central America | The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether language learning aptitude and certain attitudinal and motivational variables were related to measures of achievement in written English at the Standard Six stage… the study extended and applied the work of R.C. Gardner and others to a new socio-linguistic situation. This study was to develop a valid and reliable test of written English achievement for Standard Six students in primary school. | 1980 |
| ERC045 | Daniel | Finamore | Sailors and Slaves on the Wood-Cutting Frontier: Archaeology of the British Bay Settlement, Belize | This research focuses upon the first 100 years of occupation of the British Bay Settlement (Belize), a period characterized by large-scale transformation from an egalitarian maritime society to a mainstream British colonial society. | 1994 |
| ERC046 | Marilyn | Masson | Changes in Maya Community Organization from the Classic to Postclassic Periods: A View from Laguna de On, Belize | The archaeological sites of Laguna de On are used to examine the evidence for continuities and differences in Maya household economy from the Late Classic to the Postclassic periods. At this site connections between material technology and identity are closely examined in the household economy of an agricultural community. | May, 1993 |
| ERC047 | Santos | Mahung | Substance and Syntax in Curriculum Decision Making | The thesis examines "substance" and "syntax" in curriculum decision making from the point of view of a single or unitary agent, first and subsequently from the point of view of decision-making structures and organizational processes. Substance includes the beliefs, values, and information on which curriculum decisions are based. Syntax includes the various procedures and strategies utilized in the decision-making process. | 1982 |
| ERC048 | Carla | Barnett | The Political Economy of Land in Belize: "Machete Must Fly" | This thesis analyzes social and economic relations in Crown Colonial Belize through an examination of the use and distribution of land. The general aim of this thesis is to examine historically the patterns of social and economic relations as they are reflected in the patterns of land distribution and use. The primary concern is with the relationship between the structure of production and the structure of land ownership. | 1991 |
| ERC049 | Carlos | Perdomo | A Survey of Teachers and Administrators of Selected Schools in Belize City on Several Aspects of School Climate and school Tasks | The primary purpose of the study was two-fold: first, to determine how teachers and administrators in four primary and two junior secondary schools in Belize assessed certain aspects of their school's climate and tasks. Second, to determine what suggestions for school improvement teachers and administrators might offer. | May, 1979 |
| ERC050 | Diane | Chase | Spatial and Temporal Variability in Postclassic Northern Belize | The data and interpretations presented in the following pages derive from investigations undertaken in northern Belize, between 1978 and 1981. During the summer of 1978, excavation were undertaken at Nohmul Str. 20 | 1982 |
| ERC051 | Palma | Buttles | Small Finds in Context: The Preclassic Artifacts of Colha, Belize | This thesis presents a contextual analysis of the Preclassic artifacts recovered during excavations at the archaeological site of Colha from 1979 to 1989. The purpose of this study is to present descriptive data and a contextual information in a temporal framework of the individual artifacts and artifact classes. | May, 1992 |
| ERC052 | Paulien | Hillegers | Spanish Lookout Belize, Mennonites in Perspective | Objective of this research is to study the views, perceptions and interrelations, of and between Mennonite communities – especially the Spanish Lookout community – and the non-Mennonite community of Belize, on the local and regional and national level. | November, 2005 |
| ERC053 | Suzette | Zayden | Towards an English Caribbean Cinema. A Social History of Film and Filmic Representations in Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados. |
The object of this thesis is to present a social history of film and filmic representations of the English Caribbean. It encompasses the development of early cinema in the region, the local audiences' relationship with Hollywood classic films and analyses of foreign and local representations of the English Caribbean that include the local audiences reaction to the film. | October, 2001 |
| ERC054 | Angel | Cal | Rural Society and Economic Development: British Mercantile Capital in Nineteenth - Century Belize | Abstract from Table of Content: "Enclave Economy: Mercantile Capital, Timber and Slavery to 1838; Labor Relations: 1838-1900, Expansion of British Capital in the Regional Economy…" | 1991 |
| ERC055 | Richard | Hadel | Carib Folk Songs and Carib Culture | The present study is an attempt to pour a little knowledge into the lacuna of which Taylor speaks, specifically in the area of folk song. During the course of an eleven-month stay in the Carib Village of Seine Bight, I was able to observe and record a fairly sizable and representative body of Carib folk music. | May, 1972 |
| ERC056 | Rebecca | Zarger | Children's Ethnoecological Knowledge: Situated Learning and the Cultural Transmission of Subsistence Knowledge and Skills Among Q'ECHI' Maya | This dissertation is an ethnographic analysis of how learning about the natural world is shaped by cultural expectations, socioeconomic activities, gender roles, local ecology and modes of transmission. | 2002 |
| ERC057 | Anne | MaCpherson | Women's Activism in the Nationalist Movement and the Gendered Creation of State Hegemony in Belize, 1950-1960 | This thesis is an attempt to demystify the contested process of decolonization and state-making in Belize in the crucial decade of the 1950's, through a focus on the extent and meanings of women's activism, and on the gendered nature of the nationalist project itself. | 1992 |
| ERC058 | Cassandra | Bill | Excavation of Structure 23 - A Maya "Place" at the Site of Pacbitun, Belize | The research described in this thesis involved the excavation of a "place", or long range-type structure, at the site of Pacbitun, Belize. The intention of the excavation was to establish a chronological sequence of building phases and to determine the functional use of the structure, during the various periods of occupation, utilizing the different lines of evidence pertaining to function outlined by Harrison (1970) and Haviland (1985). | May, 1987 |
| ERC059 | Mary | McCready | Late Preclassic Social Organization and Craft Specialization at Colha, Belize | The primary goal of this thesis is to synthesize data derived from a number of different archeological context at Colha in order to create a model of Late Preclassic social organization and craft specialization. The data base was compiled from field excavation notes, unpublished and published results of lithic and ceramic analyses, and various sources including the Colha Project interim reports. | August, 1988 |
| ERC060 | Fred Jr. | Valdez | The Prehistoric Ceramics of Colha, Northern Belize | This thesis presents the Colha ceramic analysis through the 1986 field season. Efforts here have concentrated on ceramic typology, chronology, and variability in intersite distribution. A primary concern of the analysis has been to correlate the ceramically based chronology with changes in lithic forms. | October, 1987 |
| ERC061 | Roy | Murray | "The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery… is either ignorant or a lying person…" An Account of Slavery in the Marginal Colonies of the British West Indies. | This study aims to refine the traditional interpretation of the term "marginal colony" in an effect to illustrate how economic developments in each of the Bahamas The Caymans, Belize, Anguilla and Barbuda during the best half century or so of formal slavery in the British Caribbean impacted upon the life and labour experiences of bondsmen and women in these territories. This Study attempts to define the "marginal slave experience " by examining the occupations of slaves in these territories, their living conditions and general treatment by their respective owners within the wider context of these experiences for slaves in the sugar colonies of the British West Indies. | 1 October, 2001 |
| ERC062 | Elizabeth | Gilgan | Archaeological Heritage Management in Belize - A Case Study | The two goals of this paper are to define the looting problem in Belize and to describe the heritage management program that the Government of Belize initiated in order to curb the looting and illegal export of archaeological material from the country. This paper describes my efforts to develop a comprehensive archaeological heritage management program that would address the problem of looting in Belize. | 2000 |
| ERC063 | Leslie | Shaw | The Articulation of Social Inequality and Faunal Resource Use in the Preclassic Community of Colha, Northern Belize. | This dissertation evaluated the interactional dynamics of emerging social inequality and the economics of basic necessities during the early development of Lowland Maya Civilization. This study focuses on one specific relationship: that between increasing social inequality and the procurement and distribution of animal resources. | May, 1991 |
| ERC064 | Marilyn | Masson | Lithic Production Changes in Late Classic Maya Workshops at Colha, Belize: A Study of Debitage Variation | This study examines synchronic and diachronic variability among four Late Classic Maya lithic workshop debitage deposits at Colha, Belize. The goal is to quantitatively examine variability within and between workshops. | 1989 |
| ERC065 | A | Breen | Holocene Environmental Change: A Palaeolimnological Study in Belize | This thesis reconstructs the environmental changes that have occurred in Belize over the last 100,000 years. The study focuses on two lagoons: New River Lagoon and Honey Camp Lagoon. | 18 December, 2001 |
| ERC066 | Patricia | McAnany | Lithic Technology and Exchange Among Wetland Farmers of The Eastern Maya Lowland. | The study demonstrates the significant potential of lithic studies to contribute to our understanding of the structure of ancient Maya society, and the critical role played by technology and production in the evolution of civilization in the tropical lowlands of Mesoamerica. | July, 1986 |
| ERC067 | Joann | Griffith | Self-Concept Development and Ethnic Identity in Belizean Adolescent Students | This research is a descriptive study that examines self-concept development in Belizean youth. The purposes of this study were to explore whether the self-concept of Belizean adolescents were similar to that of youth of the United States and other countries using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire-Revised. The study examines a model of self-concept development to determine whether the self-concept of Belizean adolescents varied by gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, ethnic identity, or grade level. | August, 2001 |
| ERC068 | Shawn | Van Ausdal | Development and Discourse Among the Maya of Southern Belize | The goal of this project was to raise incomes, intensify land use and diversify cash crops. | 2000 |
| ERC069 | Flemming | Dauguard-Hensen | Negotiating National Identity in Belize: Creole Processes of Identification and Differentiation in Belize City |
"I focused on how Creoles in Belize City related to Central American and Chinese immigrants, and how they related and negotiated their own identity through interactions with those whom they defined as non-Belizeans. Accordingly, this thesis analyzes identity processes among Creoles in Belize City as a dual process of both identification and differentiation. | April, 2002 |
| ERC070 | Sharon | Bennett | Diet, Health and Status at Tipu. A Preliminary Study | This study, as an integral part of the larger, research project, has 3 goals, to assess the nutrition at Tipu determine if there are differences in diet indicated between sexes and burial locations; and determine if there are relationships between skeletal pathologies or measures of health such as stature or cortical area and diet as indicated by trace elements concentrations. | May, 1985 |
| ERC071 | Francis | Higdon | Farm Diversification and Specialization: The Adoption of Mennonite Households in Spanish Lookout, Belize | This study is concerned with explaining how household variation contributes to the development of diversified or specialized commercial farms. | 1997 |
| ERC072 | Carol | Jenkins | Patterns of Protein-Energy Malnutrition among Preschoolers in Belize | This study is based on a survey to assess nutritional status among children from birth through 5 years old in Belize. The survey was conducted in 1979 in coastal (Stann Creek) and in inland (Cayo) Districts. This study examines bicultural factors associated with early childhood malnutrition in Belize. 4 ethnic groups are represented: Mestizo, Maya, Creole, and Garifuana. | August, 1980 |
| ERC073 | James | Flowers | Pavement Design Procedure for Belize and Administrative Improvement in the Ministry of Works | This thesis briefly describes Belize, and the problems of road planning, construction and maintenance. The objectives are: To establish guidelines for developing a rational pavement design procedure for Belize and provide administrative guidance necessary for the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of public works programs in Belize. | August, 1973 |
| ERC074 | John | Wyeth | Currency Boards: The Background and Functioning of a Colonial Monetary System and a Case Study of Belize | July, 1978 | |
| ERC075 | Miriam | Simonds | The Development of the Land Cover Pattern in the Southern Part of the Toledo District, Belize, Central America | The objective of this study is to document land use and the 1975 land cover pattern in the southern part of the Toledo District. This study combines an historical account of land use in the southern part of the Toledo District of Belize and a computer -assisted analysis, provided by satellite imagery, of the district's 1975 land cover. | December, 1986 |
| ERC076 | David | Aguilar | Rural Land Utilization in British Honduras (A Comparative Study with Jamaica) | The study takes into consideration the historical and geographical background of British Honduras, in particular the evolvement of its peoples, its agriculture, and its land tenure. | June, 1972 |
| ERC077 | John | Wyeth | Development Strategies and Specialization in Small Countries: A Case Study of Belize | The research presented here confines itself to the investigation of one of the most widely recognized structural features of small economies; that is a tendency to specialization. It identifies particular strands of thought in this field and uses two alternative approaches as a basis for the study of experience with specialization and potential for diversification in the case study of Belize | October, 1978 |
| ERC078 | Simon | Zisman | Sustainability or Status Quo: An Assessment of Elite Influence in the Political Ecology of Belizean Mangroves | This research, by investigating the actions of mangrove stakeholders in Belize, reveals why the ruling elite who govern resource use rarely benefit from more sustainable exploitation, and how they resist attempts to achieve it. This thesis therefore not only takes a pluralistic approach to the analysis of environmental degradation, but also puts the assessment of elite influence at the heart of environmental management. | 1998 |
| ERC079 | Carl | Smith | Strategies for Developing Trainers Competence and Performance | "… The issue being confronted is finding suitable approaches, strategies and solutions to performance problems. If the trainer performs professionally the influence would impact geometrically upon the organization…" | May, 1992 |
| ERC080 | L | Nicholas | An Investigation of the Criteria Affecting the Success or Failure of Textbooks and Learning Packages in Developing Countries | "The research is almost exclusively based upon the Western-European approach to publishing, which determined the research methods and approaches used for this research | September, 1994 |
| ERC081 | Emory | Whipple | Music of the Black Caribs of British Honduras | The following paper is based on information obtained both in the field and from library research. .. The buld of the following paper is devoted to a description of the Black Caribs musical culture. | August, 1971 |
| ERC082 | Melissa | Johnson | Nature and Progress in Rural Creole Belize: Rethinking Sustainable Development | This dissertation addresses the multitude of debates around sustainable development, an idea which has generated a tremendous literature in recent years. Research conducted in Crooked Tree Village, Belize District, Belize | 1998 |
| ERC083 | Peter | Esselman | The Monkey River Baseline Study: Basic and Applied Research for Monitoring and Assessment in Southern Belize | This thesis documents both new and expanded applications or rapidly assessing ecosystem condition, and also describes basic ecosystem patterns for the first time. | 2001 |
| ERC084 | Evan | Dakers | Social Development Planning and Implementation in Belize | The main thesis of this dissertation is that generally speaking, Belize's national planning and implementation machinery over the past three to four decades has been dominated by economic and financial issues, with relatively little attention being given to social and human development concerns. | September, 1995 |
| ERC085 | Gyles | Iannone | Ancient Maya Eccentric Lithics: A Contextual Analysis | This thesis explores data pertaining to temporal and spatial distributions, contexts and associations, origins, production and redistribution, and depictions in other plastic and graphic media. | October, 1992 |
| ERC086 | James | Mcleish | British Activities in Yucatan and on the Moskito Shore in the Eighteenth Century | May, 1926 | |
| ERC087 | Jacob | Plaisier | The Impact of Central American Immigrants in Belize | January, 1996 | |
| ERC088 | Luis | Mendez Morataya | Análisis Espacial de Patulul y Soluciones de Equipamiento Urbanos | April, 1983 | |
| ERC089 | Peter | Ashdown | Race, Class and the Unoffical Majority in British Honduras 1890-1949 | July, 1979 | |
| ERC090 | H | Enriquez | An Investigation into Factors Affecting the Distribution of Project Bids | This study investigated factor affecting the distribution of construction project bids based on tentative causal model as suggested by skitmore | March, 1988 |
| ERC091 | Katie | Ruddy | The Impact of Education on Migration To and From Punta Gorda | This paper investigates immigration from village of the Toledo District to Punta Gorda then elsewhere for education | 2001 |
| ERC092 | Nicholas | Atlas | Breaking Down the "Babylon System" in Hopkins Village | This project attempts to document a community currently enduring a state of rapid, unfamiliar and in many cases in alterable transformation. "… very few studies have focused their attention on the practical manifestation of westernization, the "capitalist mentality," and the presence of the "Babylon system" within a Garifuna Community..." | 2001 |
| ERC093 | Meaghan | Burritt | The Continuity of Ritual Traditions - Maya of the Cayo District Past and Present | This paper discusses the pathway of ritualistic traditions between the ancient and present day Maya. This research paper presents some of the ancient and present day Maya ritual traditions and attempts to explain how these traditions have evolved through time. | 2001 |
| ERC094 | Matthew | Lee | Human Impact Mapping in the Northern Coastal Plain of Belize: A Case Study of the Crooked Tree Watershed | Human impact mapping was conducted on the western, populated bank of Crooked Tree Lagoon, Black Creek, and Spanish Creek to provide spatially exact information about the locations and characteristics of human activities occurring along the banks. | 2002 |
| ERC095 | Lauren | Russell | Environmental Interpretation as a Means for Conservation: A Study of Mangroves in Belize | This study assessed the economic and environmental value of threats to and management of Belize' Mangroves. | 2000 |
| ERC096 | Jesse | Hastings | Comparison of Reef Management in Three Reserve: A study comparing Glover's Reef Marine Reserve, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, and Caye Caulker Marine and Forest Reserves | This paper examines the history, background, managing techniques and effectiveness, and current uses and future plans of the three reserves. It also does a short overview of development and how it does, or could, affect the reserves studied. | 2001 |
| ERC097 | Craig | Madsen | An Assessment of Spear fishing in Belize | The purpose of this document is to assess the practice of spear fishing at Caye Caulker, Belize. The study reviews regulations pertaining to spear fishing in Belize and the main objective of the study is to determine if these regulations are environmentally and economically feasible | 2001 |
| ERC098 | Kiley | Lane | The Democracy of A Dam: Searching for the 'Truth' behind Chalillo and What's Best for Belize | Instead of writing a paper that determined the 'truth' of the Chalillo issue, the focus of my study became a determination to help the reader form his or her own opinion of what would be best for Belize. | 2002 |
| ERC099 | Jenny | O'Connor | The Future of Development on Caye Caulker | My project is an investigation into what people believe should happen with development on the northern island, whether the closing of the split will be beneficial or detrimental to the life of Caye Caulker, whether there is a potential for large-scale development, and generally what the future will bring to the island. | 2001 |
| ERC100 | Edward | Hosford | Kayaking the Port Honduras Marine Reserve | Through the assistance of the staff at Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE) and the aid of local residents, I have established two kayaking transects through the Port Honduras Marine Reserve. | 2003 |
| ERC101 | Lara | Pasternak | The Process of Creating an Environmental Booklet for the Caye Caulker R.C. Primary School: A Caye to Learning about the Environment | The scope of this project is to create a learning tool that will provide a fun way to learn about the environment of Caye Caulker and Belize. The booklet is to provide a creative outlet for kids to learn about conservation and preservation of Belize and the importance of their environment. Booklet name: A Caye to Learning about the Environment: An Environmental Booklet for the Caye Caulker R.C. Primary School | 2003 |
| ERC102 | Anastasia | Wincorn | Poustinia: The Wilderness where the Spirit Dwells | This study explores the history, development, present state and future plans of Poustinia Land Art Park located two miles outside Benque Viejo del Carmen in Belize. | 2002 |
| ERC103 | Peter | Schoene | Map Development and Preliminary Ecological Survey of Middle Long Caye, Belize | 2003 | |
| ERC104 | Lenora | Ditzler | Lobster fishing and the Caye Caulker Marine Reserve: A Study of Traditional Trap Fishermen and Zonation of the Reserve | This primary objectives of this study were to learn which lobster fishermen on Caye Caulker were fishing within the boundaries of the Caye Caulker Marine Reserve (CCMR) and to generate a map of their fishing territories, as well as a log of the number of lobster traps being used in these areas. | 2003 |
| ERC105 | Joan | Hemphill | Commercial Species Monitoring Protocol at the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve | This paper examined both the sampling and enforcement aspects of the monitoring process, focusing primarily on data collected on commercial species of conch and lobster, which were surveyed at 11 different sites in the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve between November 5 - 10 2002. | 2002 |
| ERC106 | Rachel | Paris-Lambert | An Assessment of School Feeding Programs in the Toledo District, Belize | One of the main objectives of the study was to document the actual operation procedures of the feeding programs. Particular focus was given to the value of the feeding programs, the methods of funding the feeding programs, and the impact of the organic school gardens. | 2002 |
| ERC107 | Leanna | Barlow | An Assessment of the CAN Program in theToledo District: Evaluating the Primary Healthcare System in the Mayan Villages | This study attempts to assess the efficiency of the Community Nurse's Aide (CAN) program in the Maya villages of the Toledo District. | 2002 |
| ERC108 | Samuel | Falzone | African Drumming, The Caribbean Way | This study examines the underlying characteristics of the Creole community at Gales Point Manatee and further into the alterations and transitions of those cultural entities as the village enters a more globalized world. | 2003 |
| ERC109 | Jessica | Bradford | The Ecological Effects of the Human Psyche in Relation to Sharks | This paper looks at the different reactions of divers and snorkelers upon sighting a shark. It analyzes the effects of advertisements and media, external attributes, the impact of shark feeding unnaturalness of marine reserves, on shark-diver interactions. This study observed the ecological effects that divers inflict upon sharks and the environment of San Pedro. | 2001 |
| ERC110 | Suzanne | Sullivan | Study of Heavy Metals in Caye Caulker Groundwater | The objectives of this study were to examine Caye Caulker's landfill contents, develop a chemical signature of the dump water to predict groundwater flow patterns, and to test the landfill and surrounding areas for heavy metal groundwater contamination. | 2001 |
| ERC111 | Rebecca | Rockefeller | Conservation and Communities, A Case Study | The goal of this study is to analyzing the details of the relationship between a conservation organization (Programme for Belize) and the local people it effects | 2001 |
| ERC112 | Mary | McKee | The Significance of the Copal Tree and Incense to the Maya and Garifuna people of Belize | This paper seeks to documenting the use of the copal tree and its incense in the Maya and Garifuna culture by examining the biological, historical and religion factors that have influenced its use. | 2001 |
| ERC113 | Patience | Churchward | The Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve Perspective on Conservation Management | This study uniquely addresses the social aspects that determine effective conservation management by focusing on the perspectives of the main stakeholders, determining who is involved and what is happening in the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve. | 2002 |
| ERC114 | Adam | Knoff | Animal Encounters: An Assessment of Tour Guide Practices at shark and Ray Alley, Caye Caulker | Project goal was to create a list of recommendations aimed to keep animals, corals, tour guides, and tourists safe at caye caulker's Shark and Ray Alley | 2003 |
| ERC115 | Alyson | Abrami | Nutrition Education in Punta Gorda | This research project documents nutritional information related to diabetes and hypertension in an effort to promote and facilitate the continuation of future educational workshops and the Punta Gorda Hospital, Public Health Clinic Abrami; 1998; 35p. |
1998 |
| ERC116 | Jill | Levine | Looking for the Energy Balance at a Coastal Zone: A Case Study of the Monkey River Erosion | The objective of the study is to find out the 'real' reasons of erosion on the Monkey level Town Seashore | 1998 |
| ERC117 | Kari | Kaech | Ecology, Propagation, Cultivation and Harvesting of Various Selected Medicinal Plants in Belize | The purpose of the document is to provide a source of information for the further research on medicinal plants | 1998 |
| ERC118 | Torrey | Podkaminer | Assessment of village Health Care in the Toledo District: The Short Comings and Set Backs of Community Nurses Aides | The purpose of the study is to look at the quality and quantity of care that these village members receive, particularly from the available Community Nurses Aides. It investigates the drawbacks and shortcomings that these Nurses Aides have to confront. | 2000 |
| ERC119 | Cindy | Lutzke | Belizean Women in Business: Their Personal Accounts of their Changing Roles in Belize | This project focuses on three women, each of whom are business owners in Placencia. Also, to delve into how the role of women in the society of Belize has evolved and changed in recent years. | 1999 |
| ERC120 | Teo | Grossman | Pounding the Pavement: An Analysis of the Impacts of the Proposed Extension of the Southern Highway on Pueblo Viejo | This study is an attempt to document the impacts both positive and negative that the construction of the highway would have on Pueblo Viejo. These impacts include issues of land rights and security, social and cultural changes, changes in the economics of the region, and potential harm to the environment surrounding the village. | 2000 |
| ERC121 | Hesper | Schleiderer-Hardy | Traditional Garifuna Kitchen Implements | This research paper took place in Barranco Village, Toledo District. The paper reports on 14 traditional kitchen tools that are used in the preparation of Garifuna dishes. | 2001 |
| ERC122 | Carter | Corbin | Economically Sustainable Art Education in Toledo, Belize | The objective of the project is to emphasize the recognition of art education as an important area of focus at the primary school levels through developing sustainable art by integrating an environmental focus. My aim was to guide my students to be inspired by all the many offerings of nature and to encourage the use of reusable household and natural products through creating arts and crafts. | 2001 |
| ERC123 | Megan | Tucker | A Case Study of the Cornerstone Foundation: Interaction and Relationship to the Communities of San Ignacio and Santa Elena, Cayo District | The purpose of this paper is to present my finding on how the organization interacts with the community. More specifically, it deals with the question of whether or not it is possible for someone who is born outside of a society to move beyond the cultural barriers to help the community in a meaningful way. | 2001 |
| ERC124 | Laura | Pagliarulo | The Complexities of Public Health Care to the Maya Children of Toledo | This document will explore the Maya people's perception of public health care, and why they do or do not choose to utilize its services. This study I will provide a general outline as to what occurs within the mobile clinics of Toledo, and will present a clear picture as to present health status of the Maya children in these rural areas. |
2001 |
| ERC125 | Greg | Connolly | Belize Power Struggle: The History, Politics, Options and Solutions to the Belize Electricity Crisis | This paper evaluate the energy crisis in Belize, the development options that would attempt to solve it, and the politics that have influenced it from the beginning until the present | 2001 |
| ERC126 | Jennifer | Brown | Xibalba: Above and Within, A Study of the Relationship between the Ancient Maya and the Underworld | This independent study project examines artifacts. Sacred architecture and rituals evidenced in Maya surface sites and caves | 2000 |
| ERC127 | Amanda | Navarroli | Coral Reef Fish Assessment Study: An Assessment of Reef Fish Population within the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Ambergris Caye, Belize as Compared to an Area of Unprotected barrier Reef North of the Reserve | The objectives of the study were to assess the overall fish count, species diversity and population density inside the Hol Chan Marine reserve and compare their finding to an area of unprotected barrier reef adjacent to the reserve | 2000 |
| ERC128 | Eli | Barach | Birds of Pueblo Viejo; A Study of the Avifauna of the Primary Rainforest Adjacent to Pueblo Viejo and the Impacts and Perils Facing Them | This study attempts to catalog the bird life in these hills, comparing which species are present in different habitats in the area and the relative size of population | 2000 |
| ERC129 | Elizabeth | Addis | Species Diversity and Richness of Understory Vegetation at the Che Chem Han, Belize | This study attempted to determine what plant species were present and the diversity and richness of those species in primary, secondary, riparian, and disturbed forests of Che Chem Hah, Belize. | 2000 |
| ERC130 | Theodore | Rippey | Caye Caulker's Tourism Industry and Where it is Headed | The objective of this project is to aid the Belize Tourism Board (BTB) in deciding which sector(s), foreign or local, may need assistance for future tourism development. | 2001 |
| ERC131 | Debbie | Mendel | A Geographical and Cultural Land Assessment of Hopkins Village | The intention of this study is to expose and promote the awareness of the link between sustaining the Garinagu culture through conservation of the land, thereby resulting in the preservation of land for community. | 2002 |
| ERC132 | Amber | Jimerson | A Review of Modified Flowstone Sculpture | The goal of this study is to expand upon the information pertaining to the recent discovery of cave lineages identified as modified flowstones sculptures which were created by ancient Maya. (Study of caves in the Cayo District) | 2001 |
| ERC133 | Frank | Carter | Paddling the Placencia Lagoon | "… establishing kayaking routes within the lagoon, in hopes that the introduction of eco-activities will better facilitate the promotion of conservation…" | 2003 |
| ERC134 | Peter | Cutul | Caracol: A Visitor's Guide | This guide attempts to give visitor's their bearings and orient them at all on the site (via adequate figures and maps) | 2002 |
| ERC135 | Maya | Breitburg-Smith | An Assessment of the Queen Conch in Northern Belize | This study focuses on trends in the queen conch population observed in the back reef lagoons from northern border of Belize down to St. George's Caye. | 2003 |
| ERC136 | Michelle | Edwards | Can Education Revive a Village? A Study of Primary Education in the Village of Gales Point Manatee, Belize | This examines the role of primary education in a rural, isolated community of Belize. This paper begins to explore the educational effects of a changing community, struggling to move toward modernization and away from the historically practiced lifestyles of farming and fishing, a shift which seems to concern many as a common theme in both developing and developed worlds | 2003 |
| ERC137 | David | Jacob | A Study of the Traditional Fishing Practices of Sarteneja | The objective of this study was to learn about traditional fishing methods used by fisherman from Sarteneja | 2003 |
| ERC138 | Ashley | Milton | Country and Culture: The Lives of Eleven Belizeans | This study is a collection of personal histories from eleven individual Belizeans focusing on what constitutes a sense of Belizean Identity. A broad range of people was collected from ages eleven to forty-six with five different ethnic backgrounds. The stories are focused around one particular aspect of each person's life that most vividly exemplifies their view of what being Belizean means. | 2002 |
| ERC139 | David | Ciplet | Education for Preservation; Caye Caulker, Belize | This study will focus on planning and teaching environmental education lesson plans through creative exercises. The lesson plans will be taught to 10-12 year old students in the elementary school on Caye Caulker (Caye Caulker R.C. School), and will attempt to teach important environmental issues and curriculum specific to the area. | 1997 |
| ERC140 | Trond | Larsen | Mosquitos in the Mist; Entomology of Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education (BFREE) | 1996 | |
| ERC141 | Eamonn | Reynolds-Mohler | Economic Growth Status and Business Structure of Ecotourism in the Punta Gorda region of Southern Belize | This study seeks to economically analyze the business structure of ecotourism and gauge the growth status of ecotourism in the Punta Gorda region of Southern Belize. It also seeks to provide practical recommendations to improve upon the current business operations and suggest measures and direction for future development. | 2004 |
| ERC142 | Sarah | Margoles | A History of Fishermen Cooperatives in Punta Gorda, Belize: Examining Failures of Past Co-ops and Current Challenges of the Rio Grand Fisherman Cooperative | The purpose of this paper is to document the history of fishing cooperatives in Punta Gorda Town, including a report on the current state of the Rio Grande Fishermen Cooperative. | 2002 |
| ERC143 | Lauren | Cormier | Conserving Tropical Forest with Organic Cacao, Toledo District, Belize | This report will focus on the potential of organic cacao as a way to help conserve the rain forest. By changing over from shifting cultivation to sedentary farming, cacao farms: cause less pressure to bring more land under cultivation: provide habitat for many of the animals that inhabit the surrounding rain forest: are an environmentally friendly method of agriculture; and currently have dependable market in need of more production. | 2002 |
| ERC144 | Gretchen | Guffy | The Distance Education Program: Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training in the Toledo District | This research study is an investigation into the effects of the Distance Education Program according to its participants and administrator, specifically in the Toledo District. This study thus analyzes the program requirements, the impacts they have on the teacher training process, and makes recommendations toward improving the overall program in the future. | 1998 |
| ERC145 | Michele | Cranwell | A Pilot Study, Assessing and Comparing Pesticide Management and Safety Practices among Certified and Uncertified Farmers | This pilot study surveyed forty pesticide applicators, both certified and uncertified, from four villages in the Cayo District, to assess and compare the pesticide safety and management practices of both certified and uncertified applicators. | 1998 |
| ERC146 | Elizabeth | McNeill | The Practice of Healing: A Comparison of Mayan Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine | 1998 | |
| ERC147 | Patrick | Drew | Fly Fishing as a Sustainable Industry in Monkey River Village | This study looks at the fly fishing industry and the benefits it can provide for Belize, specifically the community of Monkey River Village. | 1998 |
| ERC148 | Karen | Rylander | A Guide to the Ancient Maya Cities of Cahal Pech and Xunantunich | This paper gathers and condenses information about these two sites into one comprehensible guide. It looks at Cahal Pech and Xunantunich as archaeological sites, tourist attractions, and ancient Maya cities with information compiled from tour guides, caretakers of the sites, and previous archaeological research found in the Department of Archaeology library in Belmopan. | 1998 |
| ERC149 | Alexia | Hain | An Assessment of Tourism in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve | The primary objective of this research project is to inform the caretakers of Mountain Pine Ridge on the type of tourists, their interests and their pursuits in the Pine Ridge. Because tourism is not currently strictly monitored by the Forestry Department, an objective of this research is to understand its current impact. | 1997 |
| ERC150 | Regina | Davis | Fish Species Composition and Biological Diversity: A Comparative Analysis at Hol Chan Marine Reserve 1988 - 1997 | This study is a comparative analysis of the biodiversity and species composition of fish species found within the no fishing zone of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. It encompasses survey data from 1988, shortly after the establishment of the reserve in 1987. this study focuses on 9 families totaling 45 species of fish prevalent within Hol Chan. | 1997 |
| ERC151 | Sammie | Arthur | An Assessment of the Queen Conch (Strombus Gigas) Population in South Water Caye Marine Reserve 2006 | Independent research focuses on the Queen Conch population in the back reef area of South Water Caye Marine Reserve. | 2006 |
| ERC152 | Laura | Kaiser | Of Marriage, Mothers and Spirits: The Stories of Three Garifuna Women | "My objective was to study a section of Belizean life and culture, reflect on the day to day life and atmosphere of a particular area, and document and preserve part of a rapidly changing time in Belize's History…" | 1998 |
| ERC153 | Benjamin | Stern | An Assessment of Cacao Education in the Toledo District, Belize | SIT Study This study focuses on the extension service programe, and visual and written education implemented by Toledo Cacao Growers Association and the program implemented by the Tumul K’in School. | 2006 |
| ERC154 | Jennie | Hardwick | Water Quality Analysis of St. Margaret's Creek | This report provides water quality data on St. Margaret's Creek, Cayo. | 1998 |
| ERC155 | Timothy | Adkins | The Evolving Interpretations and Utilizations of Caves in Western Belize | This project examines caves’ functional transition from spiritual to economic utilization, it also investigates spiritual interpretations of caves of modern Maya descendants and those who interact frequently with caves | 2004 |
| ERC156 | Alyson | Vislocky | An Overview of Social and Psychological Issues Affecting Children in Punta Gorda, Belize | This study addresses the need for counseling at the primary schools and the issues that students face | 2004 |
| ERC157 | Beth | Brady | Voices Rising: A Case Study of the Emergence and Development of the Toledo Maya Women's Council | This paper is an attempt not only to document the actions and initiatives of the TMWC, but also to provide a medium through which the women's ideas, opinions and request can be listened to. | 1997 |
| ERC158 | Hollis-Ann | Stewart | Endangered Mythical Creatures of Belize | Exploring Folktales, folklore of Belize | 1997 |
| ERC159 | Brad | Bernstein | A Sustainable Outlook of the Rice Industry in Toledo, Belize | This study reviews the milpa and mechanized production system and makes an environmental impact assessment associated with each. An analysis of the cost of production for each system is conducted. | 1997 |
| ERC160 | Jamie | Dawson | The Comparative Behaviors of Semi-Captive and Wild Juvenile Black Howler Monkeys | The objectives of this study were to determine whether or not the semi-captive monkeys displayed the same behavior patterns as their wild counterparts; to determine possible causes for any differences in their behaviors; and to assess the effectiveness of the Wildlife Care Center's Feasibility Study to Repatriate Howler Monkeys. | 1998 |
| ERC161 | Maria | Brown | The Contribution of a Non-Governmental Health Clinic to the Toledo District of Belize: A Community’s Perspective | This Project evaluates the services of a health clinic in the Toledo District of Belize called Hillside Healthcare Center. The study was focused on four main objectives, to determine the most common illnesses and discuss their cultural implications, to assess the services provided by the clinic their contribution, evaluate the perceptions of local communities about the healthcare received and to recommend ways to provide a more effective and efficient delivery system. | 2004 |
| ERC162 | Rebecca | Chaffee | The Power of Food: To Hurt of to Heal | The study's objectives were to determine what Belizeans typically eat, and in particular what four different ethnic families of Punta Gorda Town typically eat, to evaluate how diet relates to certain diseases, to determine why people eat the way they do, to list some healthier and smarter ways of eating, and to show how food can be used to prevent certain diseases. | 1997 |
| ERC163 | Brett | Stevenson | Sea Turtle Conservation in Belize: An Assessment and Recommendations | This study assesses what conservatory measures Belize has implemented with the purpose of protecting sea turtles, specifically hawksbill, green and loggerhead. It analyzes how efficient these implementations have been and makes recommendations towards more effective conservation. | 1998 |
| ERC164 | Devon | Lake | Port Honduras Marine Reserve: A Case Study in Community-Based Marine Reserve Development | This research study is an investigation into the development of the Port Honduras Marine Reserve and the way this process has set the stage for the future management of what will be Belize's largest marine reserve. | 1998 |
| ERC165 | Travis | Gray | Logging and Alternative Land Uses in Toledo District, Belize | 1998 | |
| ERC166 | Amanda | Herzog | A Case Study of Sustainable Timber Harvesting in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve | The purpose of this paper is to examine the procedures for the development of a sustained timber harvesting plan, observe restoration methods practiced, and explore options for increasing the economic incentives for timber harvesting in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve in Belize. | 1998 |
| ERC167 | Thomas | Buehrens | The Mangroves of Bird Cay: A Port Honduras Marine Reserve Site Study and Review of Applicable Prior Research | This work represents part of a larger body of onging ecological research and conservation efforts by the Toledo Institute for Development and Enviornment (TIDE) within Port Honduras Marine Reserve. | 2006 |
| ERC168 | William | Engelhardt | The History, Development, Industrialization and Marketing Relationships of Agriculture in Spanish Lookout, Belize | The purpose of this independent study is to address three main concepts concerning the Mennonites’ agricultural industry in Spanish Lookout. First to understand why agriculture was able to develop successfully in Spanish Lookout, to describe the most common agricultural industries occurring and to explain the relationship between the farming and business aspect of these agricultural industries. | 2006 |
| ERC169 | Kalyn | Bickerman | Commercial Fishermen's Knowledge and Opinions on Sea Turtle Regulations and Marine Reserves in Belize | The objective of this paper was to determine the knowledge of commercial fishermen of sea turtle regulation and marine reserves in Belize as well as their compliance with these laws. | 2006 |
| ERC170 | Emily | Blackman | The Antillean Manatees of the Southern Lagoon, Belize: A Behavioral Study with a Focus on Mother-Calf Pairs | This study seeks to provide information about Antillean Manatee behavior in the Southern Lagoon of Belize, especially that of mother-calf pairs, by observing manatees in one of the "manatee holes". This study also compares Antillean behavior with a description of Florida manatee behavior. | 2006 |
| ERC171 | Alex | Hildebrand | Geology of Big Falls - Punta Gorda Area, Belize | This project aims to provide detailed information about the outcrops in the area from Big Falls to Punta Gorda Town in the Toledo District. This project will provide basic geologic information about the outcrops along the Southern Highway and seek to serve as a reference tool for those in the Punta Gorda area. | 1997 |
| ERC172 | Elise | Parker | Permaculture in Belize: Practice and Potential | The objective of this research is to evaluate the potential for permacultre in Belize by developing case studies of selected sites. The analysis of these systems is intended to recognize permaculture designs, consider the potential for further permaculture development, and assess the practicality of permaculture for the current system and Belize alike. | 1996 |
| ERC173 | Jennifer | Tsao | The Mayan Movement in the Toledo District of Belize: How Resource Mobilization Encouraged its Development and Contributed to its Success | "This report examines the Mayan social movement's egress and assesses how leadership, organization, and the mobilization of resources contributed to the advancement of the movement as a whole. This study sets out to demonstrate how the underlying goal of the movement is to secure land for the Mayan people…" | 1996 |
| ERC174 | Erin | Kennedy | Education's Toll Bridge: A Case Study of Secondary Education's Effects on a Maya Community | Objective of this study were to determine: how accessible secondary education is, and has been over the past twenty years (an what factors determine its accessibility,) to what extent education serves as a mechanism of cultural alienation through an analysis of how many graduates are able to fit back into community and cultural roles, and how and why community values concerning education have been changed over the past three generations. | 1996 |
| ERC175 | Kelly | Buscher | Impact of Economic Development on Maya Land Use | This project seeks to survey current land use practices in a Maya Village, as contrasted with traditional use, to establish what role the pressure of economic development plays in effecting this change, and how such economic development will impact land use in the future. Also to be analyzed are the effects various land use practices have on the socioeconomic situation of the Maya, and in light of this, to what extent the Maya welcome the changes imposed on them by the powerful wave of economic development. | 1996 |
| ERC176 | Shanda | Denny | Aquaculture: Impacts on the Community and the Environment | 1996 | |
| ERC177 | Belle | Stone | The Women of Laguna: A photo Essay on the Lives of the Women in Laguna Village, Toledo | This Study is a photo-essay on the lives of the women in the Ke'kchi Maya Village of Laguna, located in the Toledo District of Belize. The photographs capture the daily lives of the women in the village and the culture, as it exists today. | 2004 |
| ERC178 | Alexandra | Freedman | Tracing Historiographies and Hierarchical Structures: A Case Study of the Stann Creek, Belize Banana Industry | This study provides and in-depth analysis of the ontological presumptions which inform the presumptions, practices and motivations of the Belizean banana industry. | 2004 |
| ERC179 | Clancy | Clark | The Local Impact of Archaeological Research in Belize | 1996 | |
| ERC180 | Jessica | Hansen | Solid Waste Management in Hopkins Village | This paper assesses the disposal practices most common in the village including, burial, burning, and sanitation service collection, and how those practices are affecting the lives of the residents of Hopkins Village | 2006 |
| ERC181 | Ian | Kyle | An Action Plan to Revive Five Blues Lake National Park | This study includes a description of the park and an action plan based on collaboration with the present board of directors and reviews of past management plans. The areas of focus of this study are community development, park infrastructure, communications, education and research and marketing. | 2004 |
| ERC182 | Mary | Coon | Factors that Impact Early Pregnancy of Women in Toledo | This study examines some factors that affect the lives of young Ke'kchi Maya women in the Toledo District. These factors include traditional gender roles, education and access to contraceptives. | 2003 |
| ERC183 | Ellen | Strickland | A Nest Count of the Red-Footed Boobies on Half Moon Caye | This study compares past nest counts with this count and tries to explain the difference in umbers. In addition, the study offers recommendation for setting up a plan for standardized and regular monitoring of the booby colony. | 203 |
| ERC184 | Josh | Whitney | Human Impact Mapping and Village Level Conservation in the Rio Grande Watershed | The main objective of this independent study was to contribute meaningful and necessary information to the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment's (TIDE) Rapid River Assessment Project. | 2002 |
| ERC185 | Mona | Scruggs | Sustainability of the Toledo Ecotourism Association: The Toledo Ecotourism Association and Cultural Sustainability among the Mayas of Rural Toledo | This study is intended to examine the practices of Toledo Ecotourism Association (TEA) and determine whether or not it is a culturally sustainable venture. | 2003 |
| ERC186 | Emily | Horne | Traditional Spirituality Among the Garinagu of Belize: Cultural Empowerment or Extinction? | This independent study is a study about traditional Garifuna spirituality and about the views that the Garifuna youth of Hopkins Village have about their traditional spirituality. The project reviews the origins of the Garifuna, the impact of the Roman Catholic Church on the Garifuna and particular focus on the Garifuna Settlement community of Hopkins. | 2003 |
| ERC187 | Lindsay | MacMillan | The Environment Sustainability of Ecotourism Resorts: Cayo District, Belize | This study looked at six different ecotourism resorts in the Cayo District in order to understand how each resort viewed ecotourism as well as what they were doing to strive to be environmentally sustainable. In order to assess this, the author created a list of ten environmentally sustainable criteria in order to evaluate all six resorts and their efforts towards creating an environmentally friendly resort. | 2001 |
| ERC188 | Aimee | Tow | Traditional Garifuna Plant Use in Belize: Explaining the Relationship between People and Plants in Hopkins and Barranco Villages | This study is about the use of plants in Garifuna culture in agriculture, food, herbal medicines, and crafts in Barranco and Hopkins villages in Belize. It examines how plants sustain Garifuna culture: how plant use has changed from the past and will change in the future. | 2003 |
| ERC189 | Evan | Paster | Opportunites for Agro-Processing at Gales Point Manatee | The purpose of this independent study project is to investigate the possiblilities of processing excess mangos and cashew with the goal of imporoving the general quality of lives for those living in Gales Point. | 2003 |
| ERC190 | Blake | Robertson | Commercial Species Sustainability in South Water Caye Marine Reserve: Component of a Sustainable Management Plan | The purpose of this study is to provide and objective perspective on the factors affecting sustainability of commercial species in South Water Caye Marine Reserve. | 2003 |
| ERC191 | Lea | Rembisz | Sustaining Agriculture in Belize: A Guide to Vermiculture | This study is based on the premise that the modern approach to agriculture is no longer appropriate in an environmentally distressed era and that progress toward a self-sustaining system that is energy-efficient, economically viable and socially acceptable is warranted. This paper is an effort to identify the ideas and practices that constitute the concept of vermiculture/vermicompost as it relates to sustainable agriculture in Belize. | 2003 |
| ERC192 | Mariah | Kennedy | Knowledge and Attitudes about Relationships and Sex Education in the Cayo District | This study conveys the attitudes and knowledge of a focused group of prenatal patients in the Cayo District. The data collected provides interesting insights into the experiences, beliefs and feelings of these women towards relationships and sex. | 2002 |
| ERC193 | Ann | Matute | Analysis of Perinatal (Prenatal) Mortality - A Belizean Perspective | This study analyzes the trends in perinatal mortality over a six year period - 2001 to 2006 in Belize. In addition, it assesses factors associated with prenatal mortality among public hospital deliveries in one year period - January 1 to December 31 2006. | June, 2008 |
| ERC194 | Dennis | Lopez | "The Mayas of Belize: A Comparative Study of the Classic and Contemporary People" | This paper aims at making a comparison between the Maya at the time of European Conquest and Colonization (the period when these people's civilization was dwindling) and the Mayas as they are today. | 1979 |
| ERC195 | Marian | Stellingwerf | A Blessing or a Curse? A Community's Perspective on NGO's (Non-Governmental Organizations) involved in Sustainable Tourism Development: The Case of Southern Belize. | This research will focus on the legitimacy that people from the local community attribute to both organizations. That means it was not the intention to consider the NGOs' legitimacy by 'measuring' their activities on certain aspects, but by gaining relevant information on the community's opinions. | January, 2006 |
| ERC196 | Winnel | Branche | Museum Planning: Developing Plans for the First National Museum of Belize | 1988 | |
| ERC197 | Matthew | Bromley | A Comparative Study of Tourism in San Ignacio and San Jose Succotz | The main objective of this independent study project was to compare the economic, social and environmental impacts of overnight tourism and cruise tourism in the communities of San Jose Succotz and San Ignacio Town. This comparison included the examination of the different perceptions held by residents in these communities, as well as those held by visiting tourists. | 2005 |
| ERC198 | Jacob | Marlin | The Peak: A Study of the Watershed of Richardson Peak | 1996 | |
| ERC199 | Christopher | Wright | Transportation in Belize: A Geographic Analysis | Purpose of this study is to interpret and analyze the historical and present development of transportation in Belize. An attempt is made to elucidate the inducements and constraints to the evolution of transportation system in a small developing country, thus providing a contribution to the growing body of literature on the role of transportation in economic development | March, 1976 |
| ERC200 | Carissa | Carpenter | Analysis of Post-Capture Behavior of the Antillean Manatees in Belize | The purpose of the study is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of capture and tagging methodologies used to monitor the Antillean manatee populations of Belize. The objectives of the study are to compare the behaviors of previously-tagged animals to newly -tagged animals, to determine if capture and tagging methods are beneficial or harmful to the animal, to determine if manatee behavior is altered after the release of the animal, and to ensure that tagging equipment is functional. | 2005 |
| ERC201 | Berkley | Cline | Options for an Environmental Education Curriculum for Sacred Heart Primary School | The purpose of this independent study project was to develop an environmental education curriculum for Sacred Heart Primary School Standard 4 (Four) classrooms. | 2005 |
| ERC202 | Julia | Lieberman | A Preliminary Social Analysis: The Rastafarian Identity in Belize | This paper is a study of the Rastafarian identity within Belize. | 2005 |
| ERC203 | Stephanie | Kieper | Traditional Belizean Medicinal Plants: Exploring the Traditional Methods of Healing in San Ignacio, Belize | This independent study project is about the importance of medicinal plants in Belizean Society. It highlights commonly used medicinal plants that are used to treat a variety of ailments. There was a focus on plants that pertain to stomach aches, colds, diarrhea, skin conditions, menstrual conditions, fatigue, snake bites, and aches and pains. | 2005 |
| ERC204 | Jennifer | Bogle | Saving the Jaguar: Problem Jaguar Rehabilitation Program at the Belize Zoo | This independent project explores the process of rehabilitation in the Problem Jaguar Program. Behavioral changes of the jaguar throughout the program are described, as well as the developing relationship between the zookeepers and the jaguars. | 2005 |
| ERC205 | Nathan | Jones | Natural Health-Care in Belize | study on "bush doctors", natural healers, | 1995 |
| ERC206 | Stephanie | Hylen | Solid Waste Management in Punta Gorda: An Assessment and Recommendations for Improvement | This study assesses the current solid waste management system in Punta Gorda Town; a growing community of 4,900 in the far south of Belize. This study aims to initiate improvements in an area that is vital for sustainable development but so often neglected. | 2005 |
| ERC207 | Kilian | Thorin | An Assessment of the Future of Tourism in Belize | The purpose of this study is to document the current state of tourism in Belize, especially concerning that of cruise tourism and its impact on the country. | 2004 |
| ERC208 | Diana | Winingder | The Habanero Pepper: An Important Food and Crop in Belize | This study shows how the habanero pepper is consumed, grown, and exported. This study will also highlight some problems facing the Ministry of Agriculture, the local small farmers, and the export companies while recommending possible changes. | 2002 |
| ERC209 | Nicholas | Brandfon | An Inquiry Into Indigenous Land Tenure Issues in Southern Belize: Shifting Paradigms for a Better Tomorrow | The purpose of this study was to examine the different options for land tenure for the Mayas in Toledo and see what is best for them through interviews and background library research. | 2002 |
| ERC210 | Reverend Philip | Wright | The Mission of the Anglican Church to the People of Belize A Look at the Past with a View of the Future | Purpose of the Paper is to seek and survey the work of the Anglican Church of Belize (past and present), and make recommendations, under the title 'Toward a Theology of Mission', for its work in the future. | September, 1999 |
| ERC211 | Enrique | Valdez Hernandez | Estudios Sobre La Propagacion Sexual Y Asexual Del Achiote | November, 1991 | |
| ERC212 | Floor | Benink | Intercultural Management at the Lodge at Chaa Creek | A Case-study in intercultural management at the Lodge at Chaa Creek, Cayo, Belize | December, 2008 |
| ERC213 | Genevieve | Klomp | Educational Change in a Mennonite Settlement in Belize | This Thesis addresses the changes concerning education within a Mennonite Settlement in Belize Called Spanish Loookout. | February, 2009 |
| ERC214 | Daphne | Gehrels | The National Reform Party About a third party in Belize | This Thesis is about a political party, the National Reform Party (NRP) in Belize | |
| ERC215 | James | Arrigoni Jr. | Rapid Zoological Assessment Forest Hill Area Bladen Branch | Parts of the 1153 acre parcel of land controlled by Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education will undergo a significant degree of development in the realization of their efforts. Before the brunt of the change is undergone, it will be useful to determin the characteristics of the prevailing natural environment for a variety of reasons. | December, 1995 |
| ERC216 | Susan | Sussman | Serenity or Destruction: A Rapid Ecological Assessment of Placencia Lagoon. | This project is a study of of one ecosystem (Placencia Lagoon) and how it works. The study shows how the human interferance has affected an area and how important it is to preserve Earth. | Fall, 1994 |
| ERC217 | Nancy | Paul | Biological Corridor Assessment: Belize River Valley | The purpose of the study was to assess the feasiblility of implementing a corridor in the Belize River Valley. The objectives were to design a network of sustaiable activities which could occur in the corridor by landowners and local communities, to determin the best possible placement and location and to detemine whether or not the corridor would and could be used by wildlife. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC218 | Wade | Miller | Down The Monkey River A Prelimianry Environmental Impact Assessment | Ojectives were to estimate the current status, extent and magnitude of impact occuring on the watershed, to provide environmental decision makers with valid interpretive reports describin the health of the Monkey River Watershed, gain better understanding of watershed ecology and natural history and function. | Spring 1998 |
| ERC219 | Megan | Zumstein | Assessment of Income Generating Activities in Placencia | The purpose of this paper is to determin if residents of Placencia are becoming deprendent on the tourism industry, and to make it known what jobs are available in the village as alternative income sources. | Spring 1999 |
| ERC220 | Alexia | Hain | Assessment of Tourism in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. | Fall 1997 | |
| ERC221 | Gail | Crick | Protection of Mangroves in Belize: An Assessment of Legislation Over a Ten-Year Period, 1989-1999. | The aim os to critically examin the effectiveness and impact of Government Regulation and management by the Forest department via a permit procedure after its first ten years, since it was introdued in 1989. This dissertation recommends wasys in which the current management of mangroves in Belize and the permit procedure could be improved. | 20th March, 2000 |
| ERC222 | Susan | Caplow | A Coral Health Assessment for Three Sections of the Belizean Barrier Reef. | This study focuses on coral biodiversity, abundance and average health oer colony withinig the patch of reef sections of three different Marine Protected Areas on the Belizean Reef: Bacalar Chicho National Park and Marine Reserve, South Water Caye Marine Reserve and Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve. | Spring 2002 |
| ERC223 | Erica | Hamilton | Garifuna Traditions of Healing: The Spiritual and Material Rhythm of Harmony | The purpose of this Study is to Document these Traditions for the Garifuna People as a Resource, so that the younger generation may be inspired to learn of their own healing traditions. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC224 | Chad | Taylor | San Victor: The development of a School and Community | This Study explores the way in which the San Victor R.C. primary school has reached their ultimate stage of development. It will examine the connection between the school and the development of the community of San Victor. The study will give insight on how San Victor is moving towards "true development" | Spring 2002 |
| ERC225 | Rob | Larkin | The Living Tradition of Garifuna Drumming in Belize | The purpose of this study is to document the main aspects of the Garifuna drumming that has been inherited from Africa and brought to Belize by the minority group of the Garinagu. | Spring 1999 |
| ERC226 | Emily | Sprowls | Coral Bleaching at Bacalar Chico: An Assessment of hard coral species using multiple survey methods | The main Purpose of this Independent study project is to contribute information for the regional analysis and review of the Belizean coral bleaching event to be done by the CZMU. This was accomplished by thoroughly assessing coral bleaching in one localized area of the Belize Barrier Reef, specifically North Ambergris Caye. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC227 | Sarah | Look | A Study of the Economic, Social, and Environmental: Impacts of the Sports Fishing Industry in Belize | The purpose of this independent study project was to research and analyze the sports fishing industry in Belize. Information was gathered in formal interviews using a set of questions involving social, economic, environmental, and governance themes. | Spring 2006 |
| ERC228 | William | Sheets | A Comparison of Mayan and Garinagu Cultural Traditional Healing Practices in the Toledo District | The objective of the ISP wereto Journey through the countries of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico observing humanity. The research of the paper dealt with traditional healing, comparing the two cultural practices of the Maya and the Garinagu. | Spring 2000 |
| ERC229 | Aaron | Cohen | Everybody Punta: Garifuna Music and the Belizean National Imagination, 1960-2000 | This thesis includes a broader discussion of how the Garifuna are part os a larger shaping of the Belizean national imagination. The argument will be made that the process of recording and distributing Garifuna music redefines mationhood. | October 2003 |
| ERC230 | Jenny | Aitken | Life, Sugar, and Change in Northern Belize | The objective of this study were to determine what Maya-Mestizo culture was like before the sugar cane industry came to northern Belize; how the sugar cane industry operates; and what the social and economic changes were, focusing on material culture, education, farming techniques, language, women's roles, and attitudes. | Fall, 1999 |
| ERC231 | Whitney | Hogan | An Investigation into Maya Land Tenure Methods of Southern Belize: The Struggle for Autonomy and Self-Determination | The purpose of this independent study project is to accurately portray what communities desire, as a method of self-determination. So that, at the very least, their desires are documented. Furthuring this, this study hopes to shed light on the land tenure issue - without succumbing to any romanticized views, or preconceived notions, as to how indigenous cultures should live. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC232 | Nicole | Anderson | A Guide to: Butterflies in Belize | Spring, 2003 | |
| ERC233 | Wade | Miller | Down The Monkey River: A Preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment | The Objective of this study is to explore the instances of environmental impact along the watershed which seem to be adversely effecting the quality and dynamics of this ecosystem. | Spring, 1998 |
| ERC234 | Catherine | McLinn | Enhancing Environmental Education in the Primary Schools of the Greater San Ignacio Area | This Study Aims to Determine ways in which San Ignacio's Cornerstone Foundation can supplement the environmental programming in five local primary schools. It was found that principals, teachers, and parents from the relevant schools had similar goals for ecological studies in the classroom. | Fall, 2004 |
| ERC235 | Karen | Nickerson | Multiple Teaching Approaches to Developing Environmental Awareness Among Standard VI Students at San Pedro Columbia R.C. School | This Independent Study Project was conducted to develop environmental awareness among the Standard VI students at San Pedro Columbia R.C. School. The Students were taught one-hour lessons three to four times a week for three weeks on a variety of environmental issues. After the lessons, students were given a comparative test to reassess their environmental awareness levels and to determine the effectiveness of the teaching approaches. | Fall, 2004 |
| ERC236 | Nathan | Brown | The Sun is On Fire: A Fictional Account of the World Today | The purpose of this project is to compile an ongoing fictional work that will address the issues facing people, Nationas, and mankind in the present and in the future. By creating a fictional work, it is the objective of the project to utilize the resources of language, images, and other literary techniques to focus the dreams and the nightmares of our personal and communal identities. | |
| ERC237 | Patricia | Wiener | Improving Tourism Advertising in the Toledo District by Updating the SouthernBelize.com Website | This Project aims at advancing tourism marketing in the Toledo district by increasing and improving its presence on the internet. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC238 | Lee | Perlow | Conservation and Protected Areas Management in Belize | The primary focus of this paper is on the contemporary atmosphere of conservation and protected areas management. Considering the global context of conservation, the study examines the history and influences of conservation in Belize, legislative and organizational, that effet protected areas management in Belize. | Spring, 2001 |
| ERC239 | Andrew | Ogden | Spiritual Healing: My Quest for Ancient Knowledge | The story is an account of the month long spiritual adventure which I underwent in my attempt to learn about the spiritual beliefs of traditional healers. | Spring, 1997 |
| ERC240 | Amy | Lint | Port Honduras Proposed Marine Reserve: The Planning Process | This Study was an attempt to follow the planning process used by the Toledo Institute for Development and Environmental (TIDE) for finalizing the proposed Port Honduras Management Plan. | Spring, 1998 |
| ERC241 | David | Appleton | The Marginalization of Rural Fishermen in Belize | The paper offers an analysis of the Belize fishing industry's history with development, and foreign markets. It traces the way the cultures of rural fishermen have reacted and adjusted to development plans in fishing methods and the growth of tourism by finding new ways to use their trade or become marginalized by foreign investors. | Fall, 2004 |
| ERC242 | Lindsay | Fromme | An Assessment of Plenty Belize's GATE (Garden-based Agriculture for Toledo's Environment) Program | This study is an assessment of Plenty Belize's GATE (Garden-based Agriculture for Toledo's Environment) Program. The program's mission is to create a replicable model of local sustainable livelihood and environmental benefit based on arganic school gardens. | Fall, 2006 |
| ERC243 | Ed | Boles | Following the Path of the Rain God | This Course is designed to provide participants with a unique experience within a relatively short period of time. This syllabus is detailed because of the nature of this kind of learning experience. | Summer, 1996 |
| ERC244 | Deborah | Schober | The Garinagu of Punta Gorda & Barranco: Striving to Keep the Language and Culture Alive | The Purpose of this independent study is to assess the degree to which the school system, community, and households of Barranco and Punta Gorda promote or discourage Garifuna cultural education in the youth. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC245 | Kerri | McAllister | The Distance Education Program: Teacher Training in the Toledo District, Belize, Central America, Exploring the Views of the 1999 Students and their Supervisors | The main objective of the program is to increase the quality and quantity of trained teachers in Belize. This study examines the perspectives of program supervisors and the 1999 teaching students participating in the Distance Education Program in the Toledo District of southern Belize. | Spring, 2000 |
| ERC246 | Jill | Chen | Project Proposal: Development of Ecotourism in Crique Sarco, Toledo Districts | The ultimate goal of this project is to generate additional income to Crique Sarco, by means of an organized ecotourism syndicate. This operation will provide numerous jobs for the local villagers, to enhance individual earnings and family savings. In doing so, JCCG will also promote communal cooperation to develop the area, as many villagers have long expressed interest in doing but have not yet taken the initiative. | Fall, 2003 |
| ERC247 | Erica | Bush | Eye Care Services in Belize: A Study of the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired | This Independent study project evaluates the services provided by B.C.V.I.(Belize Council for the Visually Impaired). Throughout this study, the process that the organization uses to ensure children receive proper treatment for visual problems was evaluated. Suggestions were made in which the organization could use to improve and ensure that each child receives the needed eye care. | Spring, 2005 |
| ERC248 | Zachary | Schulman | The Social and Environmental Factors of Production Along the San Antonio-Jalacte Road in the Toledo District of Belize | The farm systems of Jalacte and Santa Elena, two communities along the San Antonio-Jalacte Road, Toledo District, are the focus of this research. Information was gathered from villagefarmers, community leaders, village experts and districts experts about the workings of agriculture along the road, specifically focusing on Jalacte and Santa Elena. | Spring, 2002 |
| ERC249 | Jessica | Zuraw | Behavioral Study of Nurse Sharks and Southern Stingrays: In Relation to Tourist Contact | This study observed the behavioral effect of tourism on Southern Stingrays and Nurse Sharks at Shar-ray Alley in the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. The project also included interviews with the guides and tourists who took trips out to the site. | Fall, 2000 |
| ERC250 | Jessica | Coleman | Exploring Dynamics of Cultural Sustainability in Succotz | Spring, 2001 | |
| ERC251 | Lindsey | Kolb | A Study of Erosion Intervention on St. George's Caye, Belize | The principal outcomes for this project are to provide tourism resort with the appropriate methods of removing habitats and construction on the shoreline, to minimize erosion and utilize the resource best to their ability. Experiments were conducted on St. George's Caye to investigate the removal of sea grass debre from the shoreline to asses the presence of sand when the beach is raking. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC252 | James | Tumulty | A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the BFREE (Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education) | This Field guide is intended to help visitors to BFREE identify some of the more common species of reptiles and amphibians here. A brief description of the animal's apperance is included with information on size. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC253 | Emily | Nelson | Life Stories of Creole Women in Crooked Tree | These stories contribute to the empowerment of womenby aiding them in the discovery of their own capabilities and worth. | Spring, 1999 |
| ERC254 | Jessica | Nack | Explorations of Garifuna Spirituality: The Dugu Ceremony | The Garifuna ceremony called dugu was the focal point of this study. One purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of dugu to different Garifuna men and women in Belize; particularly those in Hopkins Village and Dangriga. Details of the Dugu ceremony were attained from both literary sources and interviews. | Spring, 1999 |
| ERC255 | Sonja | Fridell | A Strategy Towards Developing Mangrove Conservation Awareness at Caye Caulker Roman Catholic School | The main objective of this independent study project was to gauge the local youth population's environmental awareness of mangroves and their conservation. This was achieved by creating a "previous knowledge questionnaire" and then teaching an interactive and stimulating lesson plan to instill priceless conservation ethics. | Spring, 2006 |
| ERC256 | Deborah | Payne | An Evaluation of Co-Management in Saint Margrets's Village | The purpose of this project is to evaluate the system of co-management of Five Blues Lake National Park with the community of Saint Margaret's village. | Fall, 2000 |
| ERC257 | Josh | Katzman | Caye Chapel: Impacts and Lessons of Development | The study was conducted in an effort to evaluate the impact the development of Caye Chapel is having on the reef and seagrass ecosystem near the island and the lobster industry of Caye Caulker. This paper also explores some of the political context behind the development, especially in relation to the lobster industry. It is meant to give an overview of this complicated issue, and make suggestions for environmental protection and compensation for the losis of fishermen from Caye Caulker. | Fall, 1999 |
| ERC258 | Kristin | Convey | Community Health Needs Assessment: Adolescents in Laguna Village | This project examines the health care needs of adolescents within Laguna village, Toledo, providing an opportunity for the adolescent population to express their concerns about their own health issues and the care available in their surrounding environment. | Spring, 1999 |
| ERC259 | Maggie | Turner | Modern Art in Belize: An Assessment of the Past, Present and Future | The study was conducted to assess what is happening with modern art in Belize. In doing so, this study simultaneously investigates the young history of art in Belize and the future art for Belize. The objectives of this study were to meet popular Belizean artists, travel to Havana Cuba to see a Biennial show that included Belizean artists Yasser Musa and Gilvano Swasey, and help with the reconstruction of the Image Factory gallery in Belize City. | Fall, 2003 |
| ERC260 | Mike | Jangl | My Journey to Understanding Maya Traditional Healing and Spirituality in the Toledo District: The Peopls's Views about their Healers | This independent study project documents Maya traditional healing and spirituality(knowledge, beliefs, and practices) in its present state within the Toledo district of Belize using participant observation, and interviews as methods of data collection. More Specifically this study examines Maya spiritually (knowledge, beliefs, and practices) under the framework of traditional healing as well as the role of traditional healers within communities, the dynamics and nature of traditional healing, and the efforts being made to increase awareness and education of Mya traditional healing and spirituality in the Maya Communities of Toledo. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC261 | Hannah | Fredrickson | Human Impacts on the Mt. Pleasant Creek Watershed: A Study of Creek use and Impacts in the Salvapan Community Belmopan, Belize | The main objectives were to gather geographical information and data about Mount Pleasant Creek and the Salvapan Community to create a human impact map, and examine the impacts in detail. Lesson plans, were created for use within the Salvapan School to create awareness about pollution, it's origins, and how it affects the invironment. | Spring, 2006 |
| ERC262 | Megan | Horton | A Case Study of Midwifery in Stann Creek District | The ultimate objective of this study is to provide information to those agencies responsible for improving women's health care (Ministry of Health, Pan American Health Organization, Belize Rural Women's Association, and Belize Family Life Association). | Fall, 1994 |
| ERC263 | Lindsay | Young | An Assessment of Shallow-Water Coral Bleaching in Belize, November 2005 | This study examined the extent of coral bleaching occuring along the Belizean barrier reef during November of 2005. Snorkeling transects were taken at each site to establish the presence of bleaching, as well as to observe the site for possible causes for the bleaching. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC264 | Rebecca | Schillo | An Assessment of Programs for Youth in the Cayo District | The nature of this study An Assessment of Programs for Youth in the Cayo District is to examine the specific needs of youth in Cayo and analyze how the existing programs available in the district address these needs. | Spring 20003 |
| ERC265 | Lynne | Whitebeck | An Exploration of 'Continuity and Change' Within Central American Refugee Cultures In Las Flores and St. Margaret's Villages, Belize | The purpose of this independent study project is to determine the impact of Belizean culture on the culture of Central American refugees who migrated to Belize primarily during the political unrest of the region in the late 1970s to mid 1980s. The study also attempts to identify ways in which the refugees have affected native Belizeans. | Fall, 2002 |
| ERC266 | Kathleen | Fitch | The Macal River Education Tour Proposal: A Water Quality Monitoring Program | The Macal River Education Tour Proposal creates a program which incoporates riparian habitat education, actively taking water quality and collection samples, with excitement and fun paddling challenges along the river. It establishes a continuous collection of water quality data that is later placed in archives at the University of Belize. | Fall, 2004 |
| ERC267 | Sarah | Rhinelander | Education for Preservation: Do the Old Ways Have a Place in the New World? | This study is an attempt to discover and describe the value inherent in cultural autonomyand protection. The paper consists of three parts; a formal description of the introduction, background, methodology and conclusions of the research itself,a short book aimed at local Maya children, and a descriotion of the schedule, activities, and results of a day long workshop held for seven children of Succotz. | Fall, 2001 |
| ERC268 | Molly | Etherington | Che Chem Hah: A Belizean Owned Ecotourist Resort | This research attempts to address the advantages and constraints of a Belizean run ecotourist resort. By defining ecotourism, as well as what it means to be Belizean, I analyze the resort based on the benefits for tourists, the environment, and the community. It is the aim of this analysis to unravel the importance of local resort ownership, while also understanding the expectations of tourists. | Fall, 2000 |
| ERC269 | Tammy | Graff | Marine Debris Source Identification: Hopkins Village, Stann Creek District | I Hope that this study will bring a clearer understanding of the contribtion the village and outside sources make to this global problem and begins a change in the attitudes of the people of Hopkins Village and other communities with similar problems on their beaches. | Spring, 2003 |
| ERC270 | Jennifer | Willsea | Dealing with Death Through Garifuna healing Rituals: the Practice of Traditional Spirituality in Hopkins Village | The objectives of this study were to gain insight into the traditional Garifuna understanding of death and death rituals and to ascertain how this knowledge is being passed on in the larger context of cultural preservation. | Fall, 2000 |
| ERC271 | Ally | Keefe | The Economic Impacts of Hurricanes on the Tourism Industry and Hurricane Preparedness in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye | The purpose of this study is to provide the citizens of San Pedro with information that can help them become more aware of their hurricane vulnerability and become more prepared for future hurricanes. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC272 | Emily | Narrow | Manatee Tourism and the Swallow Caye Wildlife Sanctuary | This study observed the characteristics of manatee tourism in the Swallow Caye Wildlife Sanctuary. The study examined the manatee tourism industry, the general practices of tour guides, the adherence of tour guides to sanctuary rules, and the behavior of manatees within the sanctuary. | Spring, 2006 |
| ERC273 | Maaike | Petrie | Coral, Algae and Urchins in the Reef along Ambergris Caye | The objective of this research is to gain a general overview of the coral and algae species in the area around, and the effect on their health from activities in the town of San Pedro. The health of the reef was looked at by comparing two areas, the research zone of Hol Chan Marine Reserve's zone A and the reef directly in front of San Pedro Town. | Spring, 1998 |
| ERC274 | Hannah | Kusinitz | Impacts of Tilapia Invasion on Rural Creole Culture in Crooked Tree Village | This independent study project was conducted to look at how cultures respond to changes in environmental conditions. The objectives of this study were to look at the changes tilapia has ushered in on several realms of culture in Crooked Tree, namely the livelihoods of fishermen, the local cuisine, village celebrations, and villagers' patterns of meaning. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC275 | Brandon | Shomoda | Wood Narratives of Hopkins Village: The Cultural Ecology of Woodworking | The main objective of this study is to relate the stories of woodworkers in Hopkins Village, using their work as the focus around which their days progress. This study shows what it means to work with wood and whether or not the work has a life span beyond the days that have created it. | Spring, 2000 |
| ERC276 | Jill | Weitz | An Analysis of the Levels of Comliance to the Environmental Compliance Plan for the Chalillo Dam Cayo, Belize, Central America | This independent study project examines aspects of the Environmental Compliance Plan for the Chalillo Dam, located in Belize, in environmental and social categories including: hydrometeorology and disaster preparedness, waste management and pollution control, social and health related issues, public awareness and education, and mercury risk management. | Fall, 2005 |
| ERC277 | Damon | Hull | A Punta Gorda Cookbook: We Cu Cook | A Punta Gorda Cookbook: We Cu Cook is a collection of recipes that reflects the great diversity found in Punta Gorda Town and the surrounding area. It illustrates the role of various dishes in the local food culture and allows cooks in Belize and abroad to prepare, appreciate and enjoy the cuisine of Punta Gorda. | Fall, 1998 |
| ERC278 | Erin | Hudson | Magic Hands of Belize: Stories of Women, Craft and cloth | The fictional stories of this independent study project present the dynamics of how the traditional feminine association of handy-work empowers or marginalizes women in Belize City today. One story is about a woman who works in the Williamson Garment Factory in Belize City, and theother about a craft maker who helps manage The Fajina Craft Center in Punto Gorda. | Spring 2000 |
| ERC279 | James | Crall | Class Formation and Industrial Development: Unionization in the Citrus Industry of Belize, Central America | This study examines the dynamics of unionization within the citrus industry of Belize, Central America. Through an examination of the history and current state of the citrus industry in and around Pomona, Stann Creek District, combined with a short - term ethnography with a specific focus on field workers and factory workers, the differential success of unionization within different subgroups of the citrus worker population was examined. | Spring, 2006 |
| ERC280 | Megan | Moore | Predeparture Guidelines for Monkey River Excursions | It is the goal of this study to identify the negative impacts that tourism has on some of the natural ecosystems of Belize, and create a set of educational predeparture guidelines for tourists to review before traveling to sensitive areas. | Dry Season, 1998 |
| ERC281 | Ed | Boles | Terrestrial Ecology | Fall, 2005 | |
| ERC282 | Cassandra | Waterman | Evaluation of the Manatee Rehabilitation Program in Sarteneja and Gales Point Manatee, Belize | The purpose of this study project is to evaluate the effectiveness of Belize's manatee rehabilitation program so that a decision about the program's necessity becomes clear. The primary objective of this independent study project is to examine the roles of Belize's manatee protectiion programs in detail and to evaluate the ways in which they compliment each other. The second objective is to thoroughly examine the rehabilitaion process, assessing the past, present, and future successis and failures of the program. The final objective of this independent study project is to examine the effects of the rehabilitaion program on the manatee themselves, on the surrounding communities of Sarteneja and Gales Point Manatee, and on the country of Belize as a whole. | Fall Semester, 2004 |
| ERC283 | Amanda | Chisholm | An Assessment of Waste Management in Belmopan | This study sought to investigate the past, present, and future of municipal waste management in Belize and specifically in the capital city of Belmopan. The study analyzed the effectiveness of the waste disposal systems currently in place and how they negatively affect the environment in and around Belmopan, and the health of residents and those who work with minicipal wastes. | Fall, 2006 |
| ERC284 | Caitlin | Frates | Belizean Culture and Cuisine | Spring, 2005 | |
| ERC285 | Alexandra | Salmon | Instinct: A Guidebook to Surviving the Jungles of Belize | Fall, 2003 | |
| ERC286 | Michelle | Groenevelt | The Riparian Ecosystem of the Sibun River Mid-Reach | The objectives of the study were to collect and identify riparian tree samples, map the impacted riparian sites, and explore restoration possibilities for the impacted sites. | Spring, 1998 |
| ERC287 | Margaret | Gibson | The Sea of Belize: A Coloring Book | This book is meant to be an educational tool that allows children to express themselves artistically while at the same time learning scientific facts about marine ecology that are specific to Belize. | Spring, 2005 |
| ERC288 | Jared | Fertman | The Practical Guide to Sport Fishing in Belize | This text describes and compares ten reputable sport fishing operators throughout Belize, in an attempt to provide relevant information to someone interested in planning a fishing vacation. It brings to light various aspects of each lodge that would not be attainable through any other source. It includes descriptions of accommodations, facilities, staff, atmosphere and location. | Spring, 2002 |
| ERC289 | Alexandra | Aronson | The Health of Belize; A H.A.N.D. - On Analysis of Public Health in Stann Creek West Primary School Children | The independent study project provides information on the current public healthcare status of primary school children living in Stann Creek, a district of Belize containing 30,000 people; 2/3 of which live in rural areas (Belize Central Statictical Office, 2005). | Fall, 2006 |
| ERC290 | Kari | Barklis | Riparian Tree Species of Belize: A Field Guide | The purpose of this study was to begin developing resources that aid in the identification and classification of riparian tree species in Belize. | Fall, 2006 |
| ERC291 | Lindsey | Noguchi | Garifuna Cultural Preservation Through Art | The main objectives of this study is to accurately document a general selection of artifacts representative of the Garifuna culture. The documentation includes research pertaining to the history, purpose, and construction of various artifacts. | Spring, 1998-*- |
| ERC292 | Ian | Taff | An Observational Study of the Nesting Behavior of Red Footed Boobies' on Half Moon Caye | fall, 2005 | |
| ERC293 | Leah | Kelly | West Indian Manatees and Ecotourism, Caye Caulker, Belize | My Objectives were to identify the issues facing manatees in Belize, and evaluate the status of manatees under the current policies. | Fall, 1996 |
| ERC294 | Brigitte | O'Donoghue | Dam Iguana: A study of the Macal-Mollejon hydroelectric dam and a survey of iguana populations in specific areas of Belize | A study of the Macal-Mollejon hydroelectric dam and a survey of iguana populations in specific areas of Belize | 10 December, 1994 |
| ERC295 | Robert | Johnson | Learning from the Lost Decade: The Human Development Reports, and a Case Study of Central America with Special Reference to Belize. | The dissertation concludes that future Reports must more effectively impact upon the processes that secure human development that is measurable and strives for individual equality. The Reports can and should contribute to national policy development directed towards necessary structural reforms in gender relations, in a strong state role in wealth redistribution, in improved economic and donor practices by Western nations, and in human development oriented national economic management. | April 1994 |
| ERC296 | Gillian | Hadley | A Village Within a Wetland: a case study of the causeway which brought development to Crooked Tree. | Spring 1995 | |
| ERC297 | Kristin | Harclerode | A Pilot Food Habits and Patterns Study in Placencia Village | Pilot study carried out in the rural village of Placencia, Stann Creek District using the surveys that are currently used by Dr. Roach and her students in their urban studies. The pilot involved 17 random surveys of households in Placencia villahe as a data source. As the pilot study, the first objective were to present the food patterns and habits found in Placencia and also to determine the effectiveness of existing surveys for the use in rural areas, making recommendations for future rural studies. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC298 | Jamie | Zagorski | An Investigative Study into Family Planning in Belize. | Objectives are to compile and evaluate existing demographic data and data pertaining to contraceptive awareness, use and availability in Belize, to look at women's status in Belize society and how family planning affects women and as a result the society as a wole, to gather data about Toledo Community College fourth formers and Independence High School fourth former and to find out information about institutions that play a major role in family planning in Belize. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC299 | Mary | Parham | Why Toycie 'Bruk Down": A study of Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb. | ||
| ERC300 | Renu | Singh | Belize: The Place, The People and Their Healing Practices. | Spring 1987 | |
| ERC301 | Helmut | Schneider | Tradition and Change in Belize (central America) - A Sociological Comparative Study of the Communities of San Ignacio and Upper Barton Creel in the Cayo District. | The theme of the study is a comparison between the ethnically heterogenous community of San Ignacio and the Ethnically homogenous community if Upper Barton Creek. | 11 July, 1990 |
| ERC302 | Donald | Simmons Jr. | A Study of the Effort of Confederate Exiles to Establish Settlements in British Honduras: 1961-1970. | March 1992 | |
| ERC303 | Vimala | Ramachandran | Traditional and Modern Medicine in Toledo, Belize | The main objective of this study is to assess the extent to which traditional medicine and modern medicine have integrated in the Toledo District of Belize. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC304 | Jennifer | Kessler | Change Among the Maya Indians of Toledo, Belize: An Analysis Using Ecological Anthropology. | This thesis provides analysis of the Maya Indians living in the Toledo District of Belize, Central America. Using the perspective of the "new ecological anthropology", it analyzes the Maya's relationship to the land they live on, and looks at the many changes their culture is struggling with due to recent contact with the Western World. | Winter 2000 |
| ERC305 | Liza | Grandia | Unsettling Land Dispossession and Enduring Inequity for the Q’eqchi’ Maya in the Guatemalan and Belizean Frontier colonization Process. | This dissertation explores the fate of Q’eqchi’ migrants who fled highland coffee plantation labor over the past century to establish subsistence farms in the north lowland Maya forests. | Spring 2006 |
| ERC306 | Maynard | Cliff | Lowland Maya Nucleation: A Case Study from Northern Belize. | Primary goals are the presentation of a new body of data pertaining to the presence of a Late Preclassic nucleated village at the site of Cerros, to define and present a generalized theoretical model for the specific type of settlement nucleation which characterized the ancient Maya and to develop an historical model to explain the pattern of nucleation in an evolutionary context. | 10 November 1982 |
| ERC307 | Sarah | Lansdale | A Study of the Cashew Crop in Crooked Tree and Implication for Promoting Sustainable Development. | Analysis conducted to extrapolate information to make future predictions about the status of cashews as an export crop and its role in promoting sustainable development in the community of Crooked Tree. | 9 May, 1994 |
| ERC308 | Lisa | Kessler | Cultural Education in Belizean Primary School. A Study of Three Villages: Hopkins, Maya Center and Crooked Tree. | To examine what kinds of Belizean studies take place in the primary schools, how much of social studies is emphasis on the different ethnic and cultural groups and how the different ethnic groups utilize the classroom as a tool to teach national and ethnic culture. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC309 | Don | Wilmot | Mayan Knowledge and the Language of Plants | Spring 1994 | |
| ERC310 | Evelyn | Lipscomb | Integration of Central American Immigrants in Belize: Background and Case Study of Blackman Eddy Village, Cayo District. | Paper will present information of government and non-government organizations that are involved in the integration process of Central Americans in Belize and discuss a case study of Blackman Eddy village which will assrss levels of integration. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC311 | Andrew | Kundtz | Visual Techniques Used to Assess and Monitor The Health of Tropical Streams in the Toledo District of Belize: A Case Study of The Rio Grande River. | Study attempts to incorporate the use of the Stream Visial Assessment Protocol (SVAP) and Impact Mapping to generally access the ecological health of watersheds withing the Maya Mountain Marine Areas Transect (MMMAT). | Spring 2000 |
| ERC312 | Erin | Stege | A Study of Child Care Institutions in Belize. | Study attempts to examine whether the standards set for child care institutions in Belize are sufficient, whether they are monitored and what needs to occure in order for the child care institutions to offer sufficient services to the abused and neglected children of Belize. | Fall, 1999 |
| ERC313 | Melissa | Lowitz | Conservation of Laughing Bird Caye National Park. | Study aimed at discovering what effects ecotourism plays on a marine national park. | Spring 2002 |
| ERC314 | Mark | Moberg | Between Agency and Dependence: Citrus, Strategy and Class in Southern Belize. | This monograph examines the causes and consequences of an ongoing transition from traditional milpa cultivation of crops for domestic ise to commerical citrus farming in Stann Creek District. | 1989 |
| ERC315 | Elinor | Abbot | Black Caribs, Belizean Nationalism, and The Carib Development Society in Stann Creek, British Honduras. | A report on the 1965 Summer Field Work in British Honduras | |
| ERC316 | Tommie | Montgomery | Refugees in Belize, A Report to The United States High Commissioner for Refugees. | The purpose of this report is to identify who the refugees are; where they have come from; where they are currently living; the socio-economic conditions in which they are living; and the human rights condition they encounter in Belize. | 8 December 1991 |
| ERC317 | Philip | Castillo | A Retrospective Cohort Study on Factors Associated with Mortality among HIV Infected Individuals in Belize. | To examine the predictive factors for death among HIV Individuals more than 15 years of age from 2001 to 2007 in the country of Belize. | July 2010 |
| ERC318 | Sheila | Cosminsky | Interesting Relations in Punta Gorda, British Honduras: A Preliminary Report. | This paper is a preliminary report in on observations and understanding of interethnic relations in a moxed community, punta Gorda, British Honduras. | Spring 1966 |
| ERC318 | Grant | Jones | A Preliminary Report on Social Conflict and Culture Change in a Mopan Maya Village | Report is a distillation of the author's present understanding of certain aras of social life in San Antonio, Toledo, a Mopan May Village in southern British Honduras. | January 1966 |
| ERC318 | Myron | Kaplan | Carib Self Identity: A First Analysis | In the lIghts of thei mixed cultural and, to some extent, racial origin or background, how do the Black Caribs vire themselves? | January 1966 |
| ERC318 | David | Snow | Anthropology 300 Seminar Paper | Paper presents the author's understanding of certain aspects of the spouse and residence preferences of a small segment of the population of San Antonio, British Honduras. | Spring 1966 |
| ERC318 | Joanna | Malmgreen | Study of a Creole Coastal Village in British Honduras and exploration of the methodological complexity of arriving at statements about the village, and in particular, about the sustem of values operative within the community and the manner in which it articulated with its social organization. | Spring 1966 | |
| ERC319 | Christopher | Studdard | Slavery In Belize. | Aim of the paper is to compare the evolution of slavery from the sugar islands of the British Caribbean to the logging settlement at British Honduras by investigating selected histiographic research. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC320 | Richard | Wilk | Colonial Time and Tv Time and Historical Consciousness in Belize. | January 1988 | |
| ERC321 | Milton | Jamail | Too small to Throw It's Weight Around: Belize-United States Relations in the 1980's. | May 1986 | |
| ERC322 | Angel | Cal | Capital-Labor Relations on a Colonial Frontier: Nineteenth Century Northern Belize. | 1989 | |
| ERC323 | Belize Ethnicity and Development | Contains the following Papers: (1) The Ethnic War in Belize by Harriot Topsey, (2)The Maya and Belize by Lita Krohn, (3) The Politics of Ritual: The Development of the Garifuna Cult of the Dead on St. Vincent by Byron Fosterand (4)The Role of the Maya-Mestizo in the Development of Belize, 200 B.C. to 1984 by Mateo Ayuso. | 1987 | ||
| ERC323 | Belize Ethnicity and Development | Contains the following Papers: (5) Recent Demographic Trends of Belize by S.A. Roberts, (6) The French in Belize by G. A. John St. John Robinson, (7) Race, Ethnicity and National Integration in Belize by Nigel Bolland, (8) Why Cooperatives Fail by Roy Cayetano, (9) Double Jeopardy: Trade Union Relations with Party and State The Case of the UGWU, (10) The Role of NGO's in the Future Development of Belize by Jewe Patten-Quallo | 1987 | ||
| ERC323 | Belize Ethnicity and Development | Title: Ecotourism Questioned, Case Studies from Belize. Desc.: This article evaluates the extent to which tourism at case study sites in Belize achieves three ecotourism objectives: generation of financial support for protected area management, generation of local economic benefits and generation of local support for conservation. Author: Kreg Lindberg, Jeremy Enriquez, Keith Sproule. Publ. Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 23 No. 3. Date/Publis: 1996. No. Pgs: 19 (11) Distribution of Recent Foraminifera in the Near Shore Environment of Northern caye by Evadne Garcia, (12) Development Strategies and Their Impact on Women In Belize by Cynthia Ellis, (13)Age as a Source of Social Differentiation within a Garifuna Village in Southern Belize by Joseph Palacio and (14) Belize in Central America and the Peace Process by Wilfred Elrington | |||
| ERC324 | National Cross-Cultural Awareness | Contains the following Papers: (1) Inter-Ethnic Relations in Belize by J. Alexander Bennett and (2) May The New Creole Please Rise by Dr. J. O. Palacio. | March, 1988 | ||
| ERC325 | Amy | Kooyoomjiam | Garifuna: Surviving in the Middle (a photo essay of Seine Bight) | Spring, 1997 | |
| ERC326 | John | Everitt | Toponomy as a Tool for Reconstructing Past Environments: The Case of Belize, C.A. | April 1980 | |
| ERC327 | Harriot | Topsey | "New Developments in the Cultural Resource Management of Belize" | 1980 | |
| ERC328 | Dylan | Vernon | International Migration and Development in Belize: An Overview of Determinants and Effects of Recent Movements. | Basic objective of this work is to provide a general understanding of the relationship of (1) the Belizean migration to the United States and (2) the Central American migration to Belize, to certain aspects of Belizen problems of development. | April, 1988 |
| ERC329 | Thomas | Sealy | Visual Area and Cultural Significance in the Country of Belize, Central America | 20 February, 1979 | |
| ERC330 | Contains the following Papers: (1) Perspectives on Resistance and Change in Belize by Assad Shoman, (2) EThnic Resistance in Punta Gorda (3) Garment Workers: Know Your Rights by Betty Waight (4) The North American Free Trade Agreement and Belize's Major Export Industries by Patricia Mendoza | ||||
| ERC330 | Contains the following Papers: (5)Small Farmer Development in Belize by B.K. Rai (6) Small Business Specialization and Economic Growth: The Case of Belize (7) Domination and Everyday Forms of Resistance Among Immigrant Workers in the Belizean Banana Industry by Mark Moberg (8) Local Knowledge as Resistance: The Case of the Belize Rural women's Association by Peta Henderson | ||||
| ERC330 | Contains the following Papers: (9)The Origins of Belizean Political Culture in Petitions to the Colonial Government, 1916-1934: Limits of Community Resistance by Anne Mcpherson (10) Is There Resistance to Gender Equity in the Belize Labour Market? (11) Revolutionary Consciousness of Belizean Youth in Beka Lamb (12) "And They Would Not Be Slaves: The Garifuna of Central America" by Joseph Palacio | ||||
| ERC330 | Eight Annual Studies on Belize Conference: People's Resistance and Social Change in Belize. | Contains the following Papers:(13) Anglo-Icaiche Maya Confrontation in Belize, 1856-1872: 'The Caste War' of Belize by Angel E. Cal (14) The Roots of People's Resistance in Colonial Belize, 1508-1733 by Grant D. Jones | |||
| ERC331 | Dorla | Humes | Trading Patterns In Belize 1970-1979 | ||
| ERC332 | Nancie | Gonzalez | Garifuna Tradition in Historical Perspective | ||
| ERC333 | Michael | Day | Karst and Landuse in Central Belize. | ||
| ERC334 | Douglas | Pearce | Developing a Spatial Strategy for Tourism in Belize. | Paper outlines the author's participation in the preparation of a Ten Year Tourist Development Plan for Belize. | |
| ERC335 | John | Heath | Rural Poverty and Public Policy in Belize | Paper is devoted to considerin the incidence of rural poverty in belize and to provide information on indicators appropriate to monitoring advances in rural development. | September 1893 |
| ERC336 | David | Cruz | An Overview of Sports and Sports Administration in Belize Towards Formulating a Sound Policy. | View of the paper is convening the development of social and recreational facilities, and facilities along the same lines on at lease a major organization in every town and large village. | |
| ERC337 | David | Cruz | Straight Jacket Metality The Belize Civil Service Approach to Development Administration. | Paper will look at the historical development of the civil service, to outline a critical appraisal of the current situation and to pose some challenges which confront the public service of Belize. | |
| ERC338 | Norris | Hall | Elections in Belize or Where Personal is Political. | Paper presented at the Caribbean Studies Association. | May 1987 |
| ERC339 | Tony | Thorndike | Belizean Political Parties: The Independence Crisis and After. | May 1982 | |
| ERC340 | Harriot | Topsey | The Ethnic war in Belize. | Paper looks at the enthnic groups in Belize and is followed by a historic perpective. The present state of ethnic prejudice is discussed, and finally, we looked at the future directions of ethnic prejudice. | May 1987 |
| ERC341 | Mary | Parham | Form and Function in the Hispanic Folk Legend of Belize. | Analysis of folk narratives from the Hispanic oral tradition of Belize; the narratives deal with a more dwarf0like creature commonly known as the duende. | |
| ERC342 | Wayne | Clegern | Central America, Belize and the Third World. | ||
| ERC343 | R. | Neal | Present Status of Pasture Production and Improvement in Belize. | Paper will attempy to analyse the present status of pastures in Belize by marking particular reference to the latest cattle census in comparison with previous years. | |
| ERC344 | C. | Grant | The Legislative Process and the Backbencher: A Study of Political Competition in the British Honduras House of Representatives. | ||
| ERC345 | C | Grant | Belize-Multiple External Orientation: The Caribbean Dimension | Paper traces the development of Belize's relationshio with the metropolitan countries of Britain and the united States and also with the two regional groupsof countries, Central America and the Commonwealth Caribbean. | May 197 |
| ERC346 | Joseph | Palacio | State of Anthropology in Belize - A Case for Third World Countries | Paper is an attempt to trace the development of Anthropology in Belize. | November, 1974 |
| ERC347 | Mateo | Ayuso | The Role of the Maya-Mestizos in the Development of "Belize" 200 B.C. to 1984. | ||
| ERC348 | Herman | Lewis | This is A Revolution Withing a Revolution (A Political View) | 1972 | |
| ERC349 | Nigel | Bolland | The Labour Movement and the Genesis of Modern Politics in Belize. | 1985 | |
| ERC350 | Laurie | Kroshus | Belizean Citrus Politics: Dialectic of Strategy and Structure | Paper examines the dilectical interation between the structures which regulate power withingthe citrus industry in Belize and the competing interest groups engaged in processes of negotiation and maximization of power. | 3rd June, 1987 |
| ERC351 | Joseph | Palacio | Age as Source of Differentiation withing a Garifuna Village in Southern Belize. | Paper analyses the social organization that still persists withing a Garifuna village in Southern Belize. | April, 1987 |
| ERC352 | Byron | Foster | The Politics of ritual: the development of the Garifuna cult of the dead on St. Vincent. | Paper seeks to begin to explain Garifuna ritual by looking at the process of its formation in history, including the development of the symbolic forms which it utilizes. | |
| ERC353 | Joseph | Palacio | The Makings of Community Paticipation in Belize - experiences from an urban and rural community. | Paper reviews the process of introducing communiy participation withing a newly built neighborhood of Belize City and a Maya Village. Implicit in the analysis is that community participation is a dialectical process in the interplay between the nation-state and grassroots organizations. | |
| ERC354 | A. | McLeod | English Writing in Belize: Creativity and Nationalism | May 1987 | |
| ERC355 | Nigel | Bolland | Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Synthesis, and National Integration in Belize. | ||
| ERC356 | Richard | Kirby | Belizean Culture and St. Vincent - The Caribbean Connection. | Paper traces the beginings of the Garifuna, called Black Caribs in the Eastern Caribbean, from St. Vincent until they reached the Roatan Islands off Honduras. | September 1984 |
| ERC357 | Richard | Wilk | The Mayan Contribution to Belizean History and Culture. | Paper discusses the identity and originsa of "The Maya" the ancient inhabitants of BElize and the present inhabitants of Belize whoa re of Maya cultural heritage. | September 1984 |
| ERC358 | Colville | Young | Belize Creole as a National Language. | Paper presents the various arguments for and against the adoption of Belize Creole as the national language of Belize. | September 1984 |
| ERC359 | Sebastian | Cayetano | Garifuna Thanksgiving Ceremony. | Delineation of the Gariduna ancestral rites. | September 1984 |
| ERC360 | Wilfred | Elrington | The Geo-Political Crisis an Belize. | Paper discusses the present political crisis in the Caribbean basin from an historical perspective and how Belize is affected. | September 1984 |
| ERC361 | Grant | Jones | Prophets and Idol Speculators: Forces of History in the Lowland Maya Rebellion of 1638. | Paper seeks to demonstrate that much of colonial period Maya resistance in the Yucatan Peninsula was a process of separatism and avoidance of Spanish Control. | |
| ERC362 | Dorla | Humes | The Efficacy of Monetary Policy in Belize. | Paper analyses the success/failures of monetary experimentation. The effective of policy discussions made will be examined not only in terms of impact on targets by also on terms of the institutional framwork within which policy makers have had to operate. | |
| ERC363 | Frederick | Gilson Jr. | The Case for a Cooperative Beef Venture in Belize. | 8th December, 1971 | |
| ERC364 | Leon | Wengrzyn | A study of the rural village of St. Margaret on the Hummingbird Highway and speculations on the future of roadside villages in the area. | The object of this paper is to describe the developmental process of a rural village in the newly independent country if Belize, Central America. The effort here is to describe the various influences from within and withoit on the evolution of theSt. Margaret community. | Fall 1986 |
| ERC365 | Emily | Blumsack | By The Waters of Babylon: Power and Politics of the Chalillo Dam | Paper explores the many controversies surrounding the proposed Upper Macal Storage Facility at Chalillp, particularly as they pertain to three main subject areas: the environment, economics and politics. | Spring 1999 |
| ERC366 | Land Change in the Hummingbird Karst. | Contains the following articles: (1)Landuse Change in the Hummingbirth Karst - an Introduction (2) Physical Geography of the Hummingbird Karst (3) Belmopan, the Hummingbird Highway and Development of the Hummingbird region (4) Agricultural Development in the Hummingbird Region (5) Population Change in the Hummingbird Region | 1987 | ||
| ERC367 | W | Cavanagh | Port Development for British Honduras | Fall 1970 | |
| ERC368 | Bruce | Soltis | An Idea for Independence | Paper explores tourism as a form of economic development, the advantages it can offer a country, and a course of action the government might follow to effectively develop the industry in the country. | 8th Decemner, 1970 |
| ERC369 | Myrtle | Palacio | An Overview of the Media in Belize | March 1985 | |
| ERC370 | I. | Sanchez | Maya Folklore: A Brief Survey | Brief survey of the folklore of the Maya ethnic group. | 1987 |
| ERC371 | Nancy | Lundgren | Blond-haired Dolls and Blue-eyed Christs: The Impact of Colonialism on the Development of Children's Ethnic Identity in Belize. | Paper argues that the children of Belize, as members of a world policitcal economy, have been socialized in such a way as to jeopardize their ability to realize their full potential. | 1986 |
| ERC372 | Richard | Wilk | United States - Belize Relations in a Time of Tension: 1861-62 | This paper summarizes and quotes some of the despatches sent to the United States by The U.S. Cousuls and the effect that it had on the relationship between the U.S. and the British. | 13th August, 1989 |
| ERC373 | Jeremy | Dahl | Conservation of Nonhuman Primates in Belize, Central America | Report summarizes the findings of the 1982-84 surveys and pinpoints the issues which appear have greatest relevance for the formulation of what could be a productive conservation policy for Belize and for other regions. | |
| ERC374 | Mark | Moberg | Class Resistance and Class Hegemony: From Conflict to Co-optation in the Citrus Industry of Belize. | ||
| ERC375 | Mark | Moberg | Citrus and the State; From Factions to Classes in Rural Belize. | This paper examines local-level politics and their consequences for class formation in neighboring Belizean Villages. (Charlestown and More Hope) | |
| ERC376 | Mark | Moberg | Marketing Policy and the Loss of Food Self-Sufficiency in Rural Belize, 1971-1986 | 1986 | |
| ERC377 | Julie | Tasker-Brown | A Preliminary Analysis of Low-Income Housing Policy for Belize City. | Paper objective is to provide guidelines for the formuation of housing policy in Belize City. The idea is to present options for action and indicate the respective advantages and desadvantages of various alternatives. | December, 1989 |
| ERC378 | Mark | Cote | Land Use Policy Guidelines for New Development Areas in Belize City. | Objective is to provide guidelines for the formulation of the land-use policy for new development areas in Belize City. The report focuses on the obstacle to development, namely, the shortage of buildable land and the concomitant high costs associated with land preparation. | December, 1989 |
| ERC379 | George | Clark | The Creative Arts in Belize Schools: A Discussion Paper | August, 1989 | |
| ERC380 | C | Young | The Educational System of Belize. | 1988 | |
| ERC381 | Olga | Puleston | A Processual Model for the Rise of Classic Maya Civilization in the Southern Lowlands. | ||
| ERC382 | J. | Mackinnon | Archaeological Investigations in the Placencia Area, Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America, 1983-1986 | Aim of the research was to look at Maya Civilization from sea level rather than from the top of a Pyramid. | |
| ERC383 | Cathy | Crane | Late Preclassic Maya Agriculture, Wild Plant Utilization, and Land-Use Practices at Cerros. | April, 1984 | |
| ERC384 | Diane | Chase | Postclassic Lowland Maya Organization at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. | 18th November, 1984 | |
| ERC385 | Angel | Cal | A Brief Historical Background of Fiestas in Northern Belize. | 29th January, 1991 | |
| ERC386 | Caroline | Pomeroy | Half Moon Caye Natural Monument | April, 1989 | |
| ERC387 | Grant | Jones | Ethnohistorical Problems and Research Needs in the Central Maya Lowlands. | 1979 | |
| ERC388 | Grant | Jones | Symbolic Dramas of Ethnic Stratification: The Yucatan Fiesta System on a Colonial Frontier | 1981 | |
| ERC389 | Grant | Jones | Historical Methodology in the Anthropological Study of Frontier Societies. | ||
| ERC390 | Grant | Jones | The Political Structure of the Chan Santa Cruz Maya: The Role of British Support. | Paper discusses a major aspect of Maya affairs in Yucatan during this period; that is, their economic and political relationship with the British. | |
| ERC391 | Grant | Jones | Native Elites on the Colonial Frontiers of Yucatan: A model for Continuing Research | 1981 | |
| ERC392 | Arlen | Chase | Cycles of Time: Caracol in the Maya Realm | Paper argues that much of Classic Period Maya prehistory can be explained by reference to the cyclical passage of time as seen in the "Short Count" or passage of 13 katun periods. | 1986 |
| ERC393 | Diane | Chase | Lifeline to the Gods: Ritual Blood-Letting at Santa Rita Corozal | This Paper will attempt to answer some questions using examples from excavations at the site of Santa Rita Corozal. Questions such as who lets blood? How? When? And In what context is it appropriate? | 1986 |
| ERC394 | Diane | Chase | Postclassic Maya Elites: Ethnohistory and Archaeology | Paper will review some of the more commonly used ethnohistoric descriptions of Maya Society with respect to the Maya elite and their spatial organization within a Maya site. | November, 1987 |
| ERC395 | Diane | Chase | The Classic Maya City: Reconsidering "The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition" | ||
| ERC396 | Arlen | Chase | Maya Veneration of the Dead at Caracol, Belize | Paper compares and contrasts data found at Caracol with that from the resr of the Maya realm to define a very specific Classic Period "Cult of the dead" that was operative throughout much of the Southern lowland Maya area. | 1989 |
| ERC397 | Arlen | Chase | Putting Together the Pieces: Maya Pottery of Northern Belize and the Central Peten, Guatemala. | It is the author's contention that the use of subcomplexes will allow Maya ceramicists and archaeologists to develop a more precise understanding of the nature of Maya society and its organization. | December, 1985 |
| ERC398 | Arlen | Chase | Private Versus Public Space at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Classic Maya Organization | Paper examines how the Classic Maya were organized and howmight thatorganization be reflected in the spatial distributions of their sites. | 1985 |
| ERC399 | Diane | Chase | Archaeological Insights on the Contact Period Lowland Maya | 1985 | |
| ERC400 | Marie | Danforth | Health and Nutrition in the Colonial Population at Tipu | Using economic stratifications, the authors tried to indetify the immigrant Itza and Native Tipu Maya in order to isolate the special effects of refugee status from the health pattern of the local Maya under colonial rule. | 1985 |
| ERC401 | Sharon | Bennett | Trace Element Evidence of the Colonial Mayan Diet at Tipu, Belize | Paper discusses the association between a decline in health and the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture at Tipu. | 1986 |
| ERC402 | Eve | Danziger | The acquisition of Social Identity in Mopan (Maya) | Project investigates the developing conpetence of children in the construction of interactional events. It focuses of the acquisition of terms and concepts of social identify among the Mopan maya of Souther Belize and on the construction of social self in this community. | Spring 1988 |
| ERC403 | Richard | Leventhal | Southern Belize Ancient Maya Region | Paper argues that a single site within the maya area did not dominate because small separate regions were the primary political and economic focus for the ancient Maya people. | |
| ERC404 | Heather | McKillop | Wild Cane Caye: An Insular Classic Period to Postclassic Period Maya Trading Station | Research was designed to recover data on the developmentof Maya sea trade as well as investigare more general problems of exchange mechanisms for trade of exotic materials in prehistoric, complex societies. | September, 1987 |
| ERC405 | Arlen | Chase | Elites and the Organization of Classic Maya Society | Paper discusses the idea of how Maya sites and regions were organized and integrated over space and particularly to the ways in which segments of Maya populations were spatially located. | 19th November, 1987 |
| ERC406 | Diane | Chase | Routes of Trade and Communication and the Integration of Maya Society: The Vista from Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. | 9th May, 1987 | |
| ERC407 | Paul | Healy | Caledonia (Cayo), Belize: An Ancient Maya Multiple Burial | august, 1983 | |
| ERC408 | Arlen | Chase | Jungle Surveying: Mapping the Archaeological Site of Caracol, Belize | ||
| ERC409 | Arlen | `Chase | Maya Warfare and the Classic Period Site of Caracol, Belize | 20th November, 1988 | |
| ERC410 | Arlen | Chase | Organizational Aspects of Classic Period Santa Rita Corozal, Belize | 18th November, 1984 | |
| ERC411 | Miguel | Barrena U. | A Geographic Analysis of the Land Tenure System of Belize District, British Honduras. | Purpose of the study is to define and explain the contemporary land tenure system of Belize District, British Honduras, and how this system affects land utilization. | 1971 |
| ERC412 | Harriot | Topsey | Intensification of Maya Agriculture | May 1984 | |
| ERC413 | Eleanor | King | Recent Discoveries on the Colha Settlement | 1986 | |
| ERC414 | Sharon | Bennett | An Overview of Skeletal Biology in the Colonial Period Maya Population from Tipu | Paper reports on work completed on first three excavation at Tipu in regards to the health of Maya populations on the Spanish Colonial frontier in the century after first cotnact by comparing skeletal indicators of health for thi popultion with those of other Colonial and Pre-Colonial Group. | |
| ERC415 | Sharon | Bennett | Social Patterns in the Colonial Population from Tipu, Belize | Analysis of the Colonial population from Tipu social structure as it was influenced by Spanish conquest. | December 1985 |
| ERC416 | Diane | Chase | Perceiving the Past: Typologies and the Preclassic Period in the Maya Lowlands. | Paper focuses on Pottery excavations at the Santa Rita site. | November, 1983 |
| ERC417 | Diane | Chase | The Cultural Dynamics of Prehistoric Maya Warfare | November, 1988 | |
| ERC418 | J | Mckinnon | Coastal Maya Trade Routes in Southern Belize | Abstract: Changes in settlement patterns on the coast and cays of southern Belize over time may reflect the different coastal trade routes followed in different periods of Maya prehistory, stopever points and ultimate destinations, and the changing nature of the Maya Economic system. | May 1987 |
| ERC419 | Marie | Danforth | Childhood Health Indicators and Possible Presence of Inroduced Diseases in a Colonial Maya Population | The site of Yipu represents an opportunity to test hypotheses concerning the effect of European contact on the health of New World Populations. In this paper various sources of health information, especially dental, will be evaluated to see if effects might be detected. | 1987 |
| ERC420 | M | Danforth | Age Determination in a Colonial Maya Population | Paper will attempt using dental histological variable in both published and population-specific regression formulas to predict age in a colonial Maya population. Results will then be compared with those obtained from application of the new macroscopic aging standards. | 1986 |
| ERC421 | Richard | Leventhal | The Development of a Regional Tradition in Southern Belize | Paper focuses on the hypothesis that numerous similarly sized cities evident thoughout the lowlands indicate the likely existence of regions with internal cohesion focused upon numerous cities and not a primary center. | |
| ERC422 | Marie | Danforth | A Comparison of Childhood Health Patterns in the Late Classic and Colonial Maya Using Enamel Microdefects. | Analysis of enamel microdefect formation was used as a biological test of archaeological and historical models concerning two periods of rapid culture change in Maya prehistory. | November 1989 |
| ERC423 | Mark | Moberg | Between Agency and Dependence: Belizean Households in a Changing World System | Thesis analyzes the cause and consequences of an ongoing transition from traditional milpa cultivation of crops for domestic use to commercial citrus farming in Stann Creek district, Belize. | 1988 |
| ERC424 | J | Mackinnon | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Prehistoric Maya Settlement, Procurement, and Exchange on the Coast and Cays of Southern Belize. | Study reveals that coastal utilization by the prehistoruc Maya of Southern Belize had distinctly different motivations and manifestations in each of the major periods of Maya civilization. | 1989 |
| ERC425 | Scott | Fedick | Prehistoric Maya Settlement and Land Use Patterns in the Upper Belize River Area, Belize, Central America | Study combines archaeological settlement survey with detailed land resource in a fine-scaled examination of prehistoric Maya subsistence economy in the ipper Belize River area of Belize, Central America. | December 1988 |
| ERC426 | James | Meyers | BElize (British Honduras) in Anglo-Spanish Relations: The Independent Englishmen of Central America, 1630-1834 | Paper is concerned with the settlement of Belize during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries its development into an independent entity during the War of the French Revolution, the beginnings of its role as an entrepot during the Napolenic Wars and its steady expansion during the restoration. | July 1974 |
| ERC427 | Dorie | Reents-Budet | The Archaeology of Petroglyph Cave, Belize | August 1986 | |
| ERC428 | Tanya | Santos | Improving forest governance in Belize: stepping stones towards community forest management | Study analyzes the option for the formal inclusion of community-based sustainable forest management (CBSFM) as an element of a revised sustainable forest management framework for Belize. | 2009 |
| ERC429 | Assad | Shoman | Reflections on Ethnicity and Nation in Belize | Contains: (5)British Imperialism and the creation of "Creole" culture (8) Nationalism and its Effects (16) "Aliens" Lay Bare Underlying Tensions (21) 'Race', Ethnicity, Nation (27) Ethnicity in the Belizean State: Weapon, Shield or Camouflage? (40) Indigenous Rights and "One Nation": Irreconcilable Differences? (45) Missed Opportunities, Bad Turns, Future Shifts and (52) Constructing the "Creole" identity: the "myth of origin" | April, 2010 |
| ERC430 | Carel | Rossingh | "We are growing Belize': modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize | Article addresses the entrepreneurial and organisational activities of a specific Mennonite group in Belize called the Kleine Gemeinde community of Spanish Lookout. | |
| ERC431 | Carel | Roessingh | Mennonite entrepreneurship in Belize. | 2010 | |
| ERC432 | Carel | Roessingh | Mennonite communities in Belize | Paper addresses the entrepreneurial activities within different Mennonite communities and the way religious differentiation plays a role in their entrepreneurship. | 2007 |
| ERC433 | Carel | Roessingh | Social capital and Mennonite entrepreneurship: the case of Circle R in Blue Creek, Northern Belize. | Paper investigates how the concept of social capital is reflected in the dailt practice of the Mennonite organization of Circle R. | 2010 |
| ERC434 | Carel | Roessingh | Working Ladies: Mennonite women in the enterprises of Spanish Lookout, Belize | Description of the position of women in the Mennonite labour system will be provided using literatire on the Mennonite women, combined with empirical data from the Mennonite community of Spanish Lookout, Belize. | 2008 |
| ERC435 | Carel | Roessingh | From Collective Body to Individual Mind: Religious Change in an Old Colony Mennonite Community in Belize | 2006 | |
| ERC436 | Lilia | Zalasar | Migracion de Mayas y Yucatecos en Honduras Britanica 1848-1883 | August 2010 | |
| ERC437 | Assad | Shoman | Belize's Road to Independence: Decolonisation by Internationalisation. | Thesis studies the diplomatic actions of a small state (Belize) whose independence was delayed because of a militart threat from a neighbouring country (Guatemala) that claimed its territory. It explains how and why it was possible for Belize to resist eh pressures of the colonial power… | 2008 |
| ERC438 | Sean | Downey | Can Properties of Labour-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture? | Social network analysis used to analyze farmer labour-exchange networks within a chronosequence of fice Q'eqchi Maya villages where swidden agriculture is used. | 2010 |
| ERC439 | Laurie | Medina | When Government Targets "The State: Transnational NGO Government and the State in Belize | Article explores how NGO alliwance had used ecotourism, a market-based mechanism to fund protected areas, to elicit actions in favor of conservation from state officials. | November, 2010 |
| ERC440 | Lennox | Gladden Jr. | A Study of Crop Coefficient and effect of Water Deficit on Field Grown Tomatoes. | Aim of this research was to emphasize the importance of selecting the appropriate reference evapotranspiration estimation model to formulate a evapotranspiration based irrigation schedule. | 30 May, 2011 |
| ERC441 | Lily | Guerra | Measuring Hospital Efficiency in Belize: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach. | Study provides the first baseline mechanism pertaining to technical efficiency information which could be used by the respective governmental authorities in monitoring future efficiency performances. | May 2011 |
| ERC442 | Maxine | Monsanto | Review of the European Union Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated Fishing Regulation EC No. 1005/2008 in the First Year of Implementation Since January 1, 2010 | Focus of this study is to determin the effectiveness of the Eu IUU Regulation in combating IUU fishing. | 19th September, 2011 |
| ERC443 | Maria | Recinos | An Assessment of the Training Needs in the San Ignacio Area. | 29th April, 2006 | |
| ERC444 | David | Hernandez | A Lack if a National Strategic Plan - Its Impact in International Business | Thesis describes and assesses the impact that the lack of a National Strategy Plan is having on Belize's banana industry. The problem that the current 'strategy' in place is not coordinated and this is not effectively assisting the banana industry. | May 3rd, 2008 |
| ERC445 | Esmie | Flowers | The Strategic Business Transformation Project: An in-depth Analysis on Social Security's Experience of Change. | Study analyzes a social security board in a small developing country and the quest for change. Starting with a historical perspective, the paper then focuses on a systems view of quality leasership, effective communication, strategic planning and the dynamic natire of how these relationships impacted the outcome of the organizations effort to transform. | December 2009 |
| ERC446 | Duane | Koenig | Opportunities for the Expansion of Historical Activites in the Territory of Belize, C. A. | Suggestions for the collection and preservation of historical materials for the promotion of history in British Honduras and the Central American-Caribbean area. | 25 August, 1966 |
| ERC447 | Martha | Horvers | Bus Business: An Etnographic research about the identity of Belizean bus drivers and conductors. | This thesis addresses the way organizational change process within the Belizean Bus Industry since 1998 influences the identity of the Belizean bus drivers and conductors. | December, 2008 |
| ERC448 | Gil | Freitas | The Caribbean Spiny Lobster in Caye Caulker, Belize (An Assessment of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster within the Caye Caulker Marine Reserve, Caye Caulker, Belize | Assessment of the population of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster in the surrounding waters of Caye Caulker, Belize and to assess the different factors that influnce this population. | Fall 2001 |
| ERC449 | Margaret | Sanford | Disruption of the Mother-Child Relationship in Conjunction with Matrifocality: A Study of Child-Keeping Among the Carib and Creole of British Honduras | Purpose on to examine "child-keeping practices" in British Honduras; that is, the housing of a child anywhere except the householf which includes the mother, the genetrix. | 1971 |
| ERC450 | Partick | Killpack | Deep Roots: The Fabric of the Ancient Maya Economy and the Tradition of Intensive Cultivation of Perennial Cotton. | It is the contention of this essay that cotton, like cotton , like cacao, was traded out of the Maya lowlands especially to those highland areas that could not grow either product. It will show that cotton was frown as a perennial, and is this not compatible with shifting types of agriculture. | July 2004 |
| ERC451 | Jaime | Awe | Dawn In the Land Between The River: Formative Occupation At Cahal Pech, Belize And Its Implication To Preclassic Development In The Maya Lowland | Objectives of this research were to determin the temporal limits if Formative occupation at Cahal Pech, and to ascertain the socio-political complexity of the site during the Preclassic Period. | 1992 |
| ERC452 | Mick Day | Bill Reynolds | Five Blues Lake National Park, Belize: A Cautionary Management Tale | Impact the drainage of the Lake had on the management of the area. Management and promotion of hydrologic features withing protected areas needs to take sucks possibilities into account, emphasizing variability and change and avoiding a focus on conditions that may not prevail at any given time. | August 2013 |
| ERC453 | Institute of Archaeology | Research Report in Belize Archaeology Papers of the 2011 Belize Archaeology Symposium Volume 9 | Section One: Trade and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands and Section Two: A decase of Research at Chan, A Modern Maya Ritual at Xunantunich, Belize and its Implications for Ancient Maya Ritual Behavior, The Last Waltz at Minanha, Better Late Than Never: Las Cuevas, Ritual Landscapes of the Caves Branch River Valley, Preliminary Observatiosn on the Investigation of Midnight Terror cave, Excavations at the Classic site of Uxbenka, Constructing and Using GIS for Fieldwork, Paleoenvironmental Reconstriction, Wetland Environement and Ancient Maya Management Systems, The Archaeology of St. George's Caye, Archaeology and the "Grey Lady" Ghost of St. George's Caye | 2011 | |
| ERC454 | Ed | Boles | Watershed Ecology | Seminar Guide | |
| ERC455 | J. | Lopez | A Study of Some Ways by Which The Teaching of Mathematics in Belmopan Junion School, Belize, Might Be Improved. | Study to discuss the teaching of mathematics in Belmopan Junior School, Belize and to suggest some ways by which the teaching of this subject in this particular school might be improved. | |
| ERC456 | Mark | McReynolds | Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Diet, Abundance, and Movement of the Scarlet Macaw (Ara Macao) in southern Belize | Study was conducted in 2008 and 2009 to determin if Scarlet Macaws (Ara Macao), in their subtropical soutehr Belize, Central America, are seasonal and elevational elevational migrants and if their movement is influenced by seasonally abundant food. | 11 May, 2012 |
| ERC457 | Douglas | Reeser | Health and Traditional Healers: The Bounds of Belief: Health, Belief and Biomedicine in Southern Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Eleen & Eve | Contini-Morova & Danzing | Cultural Forms: Introducing Referents in Mopan Maya | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Lilia | Zalasar | The Political and Social Relations of Yucatecans in British Honduras in the Late Nineteenth Century | 2012 | |
| ERC458 | Kai | Schoenhals | Belize and Revolutionary Grenada: A Partnership in the Caribbean, 1979-1983 | ||
| ERC459 | Paige | Fisher | Integrated Models of Sustainable Development: Plans, Perceptions and the Special development Area in Monkey River Village | 7th May, 1993 | |
| ERC460 | Kate | Hester | Approaches to Hard Coral Indentification at Tackle Box Reef San Pedro, Ambergris Cay | To document the hard coral species of the Tackle Box Reef dive site off Ambergris Caye. | 8th May, 1993 |
| ERC461 | Cameron | Richardson | The Role of the Drum in Garifuna Culture | Spring 1993 | |
| ERC462 | Stephanie | Fryberger | Stories of the Toledo Maya Myth, Folklore, Ritual and Worldview | 5th May, 1993 | |
| ERC463 | Kristin | Coates | Gales Point Manateee and Ecotourism | Objective was to learn of the changings in the village since the Coop began, the positives and the negatives the hopes for the village in the future, how foreigners in the village have affected the villagers way of life, their reasons for joining or not joining the Coop, and observe the human to human and human to nature relationships. | 8th May, 1993 |
| ERC464 | Seth | Robinson | Visitor Expenditure and Motivation Survey Xunantunich | Survey conducted to illicit information regarding visitor expenditure patterns and motivation at Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Lamanai and Xunantunich to create a profile to enhance the visitor experinece. | 7th May, 2008 |
| ERC465 | Nelly | Rosario | Belize Public Health Bureau Water Quality Control Laboratory: Water Sampling and Testing Manual | April, 1993 | |
| ERC466 | Michael | Phillips | Imaging Belize: Tourists and Tourism Advertising | January , 1994 | |
| ERC467 | Bruce | Ergood | Belize As Presented in Her Literature | March, 1993 | |
| ERC468 | Catherine | Macklin | Apects of Black Carib Religion | Thesis concetrated on the beliefs and rituals associated with the main feature of Carib relifion, namely the beliefs surroundiing the ancestral spirits, gubida. | 1972 |
| ERC469 | Dion | Weaver | The History of Television in Belize 1980 - Present | Paper deals with the history of television in Belize. Contains a brief overview of broadcasting and the press. | |
| ERC470 | Philip | Reeder | Speeological and Geoarchaeological Investigations on the Northern Vaca Plateau, Belize, Central America | Research of reconnaissance of the karst and geoarchaeological resources in the vicinity of Spanish Water Hole in western Belize approvimately 10 kilometers east of the border between Belize and Guatemala. | 23rd January, 1993 |
| ERC471 | Irma | Mclaurin-Allen | Do you See What I See? Do You Know What I Know? Differing Perceptions Among Men and Women in Belize, Central America | 4-7 March, 1993 | |
| ERC472 | Stephen | Piscitelli | United States Foreign Policy and Belize: Motivations and Context | March, 1993 | |
| ERC473 | Joseph | Palacio | A Survey of Central American Immigrants in Four urban Communities in Belize | Report discusses the result of a survey of 313 immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in four urban communities. | 30th November, 1985 |
| ERC474 | Charles | Rutheiser | Culture, Schooling, and Neocolonialism in Belize | 1991 | |
| ERC475 | Karen | Judd | Elite reproduction and ethnic identity in Belize | Examines the construction and representation of ethnic identity by elite groups over time in Belize, focusing on the ceole middle class of the late 19th century. It analyzes the formation and reproduction of local white, creole, "spanish" elites in terms of their economic and social locations as well as hrough the reproduction over several generations of representative elite families. | 1992 |
| ERC476 | Michael | Phillips | The History of Attempts to Formulate a National Cultural Policy in Belize | 3rd March, 1993 | |
| ERC477 | Murna | Morgan | The Tourism Industry in Belize (Draft) | ||
| ERC478 | Catherine | Gibson | Implications of Mangrove Clearing in Invertebrate Communities Joe Taylor Creek, Punta Gorda Town, Belize | Study is to usees the macrofunal community to assess the impact of development, specifically cutting, on R. mangal communities. It also investigates the relationship between fauna and the vegetation. | 8th December, 1994 |
| ERC479 | Kristin | Howard | The Cornmill of San Pedro Colombia: The Gender Implications of a Community Grinding Mill | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC480 | Sara | Peskin | Environmental Education Activities for Belizean Schoolchildren | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC481 | Lo | Duong | Survey of Standard II Students with Reading Problems in the Cayo District | Objective of the survey is to bring to the attention of the educational department and the public the need for a reading program for children with reading problems. | Fall, 1994 |
| ERC482 | Erin | Dombrowe | Environmental Education: an extracurricular Approach | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC483 | Matthew | Golden | Primate Research and Habitat Evaluation in The Manatee Forest Reserve | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC484 | Christopher | Peknik | The Manatee of Southern Lagoon | Manatee at Gales Point | 7th May, 1993 |
| ERC485 | Craig | Maclay | Caye Caulker Marine Reserve Baseline Data/Presentation | Study shows some effects of the overfishing in the marine ecosyste, outlines the struggling history of the much neededimplementation of the marine reserve on Caye Caulker, discusses the rationale supporting the reserve and shows the benefits is can bring to the surrounding areas. | 12th December, 1993 |
| ERC486 | Vernon | Scarborough | Water Management Studies at Kinal and Adjacent Areas (Draft) | Long term study of seeveral archaeological sites and their immediate environs to bettwe understand the degree of centralization associated with reservior management in the Maya area. Report includes survey and reconnaisance, detailed survey, excavations and subsoil coring. | |
| ERC487 | Robert | Heinzman | Commercial Non-Timber Forest Products in Belize | Current and potential non-timber forest Products in Belize. Examination of markets, as well as methods and history of production for many of the NTDP's in Belize. | |
| ERC488 | Michaela | Pfeiffer | Conservation Vs. Development: Does the Development of the Tourist Industy Accelerate the Need for Conservation? | Highlights the difficulties that Belize faces as a result of relying upon tourism as a primary source of income. | Fall, 1994 |
| ERC489 | Mara | Madden | A Glimpse into Dolomite: The Economic, Social, and Environmental Effects of Belize Minerals Limited | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC490 | Lindsay | Frantz | Revealing Rhythms: Uncovering the Creole Culture, History and Spirituality of Gales Point Manatee Through the Drum | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC491 | Jeffrey | Aguello | Bridging the Gap An Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry and their Emerging Role in the Conservation Movement | Fall, 1994 | |
| ERC492 | Steven | Platt | Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize | Survey done in conjunction with a study on the status, nesting ecology, and food habits of Morelet's crocodile in Belize. | 3rd November, 1993 |
| ERC493 | Steven | Platt | Preliminary investigation of the nesting ecology, and juvenile and subadult food habits of Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) in Belize | Study objectives were to gather data on the nesting ecology and to determine the wet-season food habits of juvenile and subadult crocodiles. | 1992 |
| ERC494 | Wayne | Clergen | D.A.G. Waddell: A Transatlantic Scholar | 5th March, 1993 | |
| ERC495 | Lenore | Santone | Chart Tools from Northern Belize: Ancient Maya Exchange and Economy | Paper focuses on the exchange of Colha-produced stone implements in northern Belize during the Late Preclassic and Late Classic periods and summarizes the result of a study which develops a model of exchange based upon demand structure and transportation costs. | March, 1993 |
| ERC496 | Louis | Woods | Regional Integration, Foreign Trade, and Economic development: CARICOM and Belize | Paper focuses on the role that regional integration schemes have played and might play in the economic development of Belize. | October, 1992 |
| ERC497 | Louis | Woods | Tourism as a Developmental Tool: The Case of Belize | Paper exposits the potential positive economic benefits that tourism could generate for Belize. | |
| ERC498 | Carla | Barnett | Looking Beyond the Year 2000: The Implications of Developments in Belize's Economy in the 1980's and 1990's | ||
| ERC499 | Nicholas | Brokaw | Population Characteristics of Commercial Timber Species and the Effects of Logging in their Regeneration, In the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, Belize. | Study of the effects of selective logging, as traditionally prectices in Belize, on the regeneration of commercial timber species and on the bird community in the Hill Bank area of Rio Bravo. Data used in devising a plan for the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. | |
| ERC500 | Louis | Wade | The Evolution of Belize's Export Base: Transition from and Extractive to a Service Economy | Paper traces the development of the Belizean export economy by examining the evolution of its export base through the three stages: from primary forest and agricultural products, through the products o f the country's agro-industies, to the recent emergence of tourism. | |
| ERC501 | Louis | Woods | The Role of agro-industries in Belizean Economic Development Since Independence | Paper provides a brief historical overview of Belize's economic development tracing structural shifts in the country's export base and examines the establishment and growth of export agro-industies(sugar and citrus) as the country's major export during the post World War II period. | July, 1994 |
| ERC502 | Louis | Woods | The Changing Structure of the Ethnic Mix of Belize: Differential Immigration and Emigration Patterns, 1980-1991 | Paper identifies the patterns of population change that have taken place over the past decade, reviews the processes that have accompanied these realignments, and considers the spatial and political implications of the demographic changes that have taken place in Belize. | |
| ERC503 | Vincent & Stephen | Palacio & McCool | Motivations of Tourists Travelling to Belize | 1993 | |
| ERC504 | Steven | Platt | The Ecology and Status of Morelet's Crocodile in Belize | Investigation of the nesting ecology, food, habits and population of the Morelet's crocodile in Northern Belize from 1992 to 1995 | August, 1996 |
| ERC505 | Michael | Camille | Government Initiative and Resource Exploitation in Belize | Study outlines Belize's development in terms of the differing effects that timber extraction and agriculture had on the shaping of its landscape this providing fresh opprtunity to understand the special course the country has taken relative to the rest of the Caribbean. | December, 1994 |
| ERC506 | Valerie | Andrewin-Jenkins | Early Socialiazation, Current Sexual Practices and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases of Female Sex Workers in Three Districts in Belize | Study was designed to investigate the prevalence of a defined set of demographic and lifestyle variables and their relationship to the transmission of STD/HIV in Brothel and Freelance sex workers. | 1994 |
| ERC507 | Myrtle | Palacio | Redefining Ethnicity: The Experiences of the Garifuna and Creole in post-Independent Belize | Examination of self-identity and ethnic affiliations of offsprings, resulting from the intermarriage of the Creole and Garifuna residing in Belize city. | December, 1995 |
| ERC508 | Assad | Shoman | Central American Immigrants in Belize: Threat of Opportunity | 13th June, 1990 | |
| ERC509 | Mark | Lucey | Recommendation and Evaluation for the Toledo Village Guesthouse and Ecotrail Program of the Toledo Ecotourism Association | 10th December, 1993 | |
| ERC510 | Joel | Wainwright | A Survey of Cane Farming and the Sugar Cane Industry in the Orange Walk District | December, 1993 | |
| ERC511 | Meredith | Dudley | Freetown Sibun: A case history of hiccatee river turtle exploitation and one community's efforts to initiate a community based conservation plan | 7th May, 1993 | |
| ERC512 | Elizabeth | Nelson | A Comparative Analysis of Fish Populations at Hol Chan and Rocky Point | Fall 1994 | |
| ERC513 | Matthew & Robin | Siegel & Stein | Maya Centre and Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary" An Analysis of the Relationship Between Idigenous Land Use and Conservation | Fall 1994 | |
| ERC514 | Josh | Aronson | An Investigation of Sub-division and development at False Sittee Point | 11th December, 1993 | |
| ERC515 | Joel | Wainwright | Decolonizing Development: Colonialism, Mayanism, and Agriculture in Belize | December, 2003 | |
| ERC516 | Jeremy | Enriquez | The Sociocultural and Socioeconomic impact of Ecotourism on Rural Belizean Communities: The Case of Crooked Tree Village. | Study investigates sociocultural and socioeconomic impact of ecotourism in Crooked Tree Village, adjacent to a wildlife sanctuary and the level of community support for the sanctuary. | 1993 |
| ERC517 | Elizabeth | Chavarria | Developing a Results-Oreinted Traiing Program for Middle Managers in The Belize Public Service | Thesis identifies competencies requried of middle management and suggests programs will will provide the targeted skills | 1994 |
| ERC518 | Yvette | Alvarez | The Belize Experience in the Management of Monetary Policy 1980 - June 1986 | November, 1986 | |
| ERC519 | Joseph | Perry | Human Resource Development In A Third World Country: The Case of Belize | Study uses available data to delineate patterns of population and employment growth in Belize ans suggest oncoming problems of education and training. | October 1992 |
| ERC520 | Joseph | Perry | Sugar Consumption, Sugar Policy, and the Date of Belizean Cane Growers | Paper reviews the policies and patterns that have contributed to the world sugar market crisis, and suggests some questions that wil have to be answered. | October 1992 |
| ERC521 | Jules | Graybill | The Church at San Felipe: Missionaries and Social Change Among the Kekchi Maya of Belize | Paper presents and examination of the church's role in development with the context of the Keckchi village of San Felipe, a small village located approximately ten kilometers notheast of the coastal town of Punta Gorda. | Spring 1995 |
| ERC522 | Thomas | Perry IV | Environmental Disturbances in Monkey River Watershed | Paper addresses the development along both branches, the significance in the watershed continuum, and the community involvement necessary to arrest the exploitation of the Monkey River watershed. | 9th December, 1995 |
| ERC523 | Alison | McCarthy | Tourism: As Seen Through the Eyes of the Women on Caye Caulker | Effects of tourism on the lives of the women who reside in Caye Caulker | Spring, 1995 |
| ERC524 | Ryan | Mckim | A Geographical Map of the BFREE Sanctuary | Fall, 1995 | |
| ERC525 | Dana | Hanselman | Non-Coral Marine Invertabrates of the Caye Caulker Barrier Reef Area | Identification of Invertabrates in order to determine the biodiversity of the Belize Barrier Reef of Caye Cualker and provide a preliminary baseline for later in-depth studies. | 9th December, 1995 |
| ERC526 | Adam | Wynne | A Census and Survey of Research on the Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra) | Paper examines the conservation approach at the Community Baboon Santuary and makes recommnedations to Monkey River for the management of the forest and tourism. | Spring, 1995 |
| ERC527 | Natasha | Brash | Garifuna Folktales: The People and Their Stories | Paper Documents Garifuna stories and determines their significance in the Garifuna culture, their origins and how they have survived. | Fall, 1995 |
| ERC528 | Maggie | Franzen | Investigation of Coral Bleaching East of Caye Caulker | Mahor trends in the coral bleaching occuring within the caye Caulker Area | Fall 1995 |
| ERC529 | Scott | McDowell | A Short Term Ethnography of the Creole Village of Bermudian Landing with a Focus on Scociolinguistic Phenomena | Fall, 1995 | |
| ERC530 | Stephen | Kisternmacher | Caracol: The Great Ancient Maya City of Belize | Paper contains a history of the ancient Maya civilization, Maya archaeology in Belize and a description of the site itself. | Fall 1995 |
| ERC531 | Christopher | Armes | The Process of Mopan Maya Ethnicity | Spring 1995 | |
| ERC532 | Alyssa | Hawkins | A Crab's Eye View: Joe Taylor Creek | Paper focuses on the needs of the Joe Taylor Creek watershed | 9th December, 1995 |
| ERC533 | Rachel | Henault | Use of Land and Labor: The Banana Industry in Belize | Paper provides a broad background of the issues invilved in large-scale agriculture, more specifically the banana industry in Belize, and most specifically the banana farms and their communities at Cowpen. | Spring 1995 |
| ERC534 | Sarah | Walbruch | The Sibun River Watershed - Awareness and Education | Paper presents ecological, vegitation, geological and aquatic background and presents background information about different watershed processes and the unique characteristics of the Sibun River and her tributaries. It summarizes survey findings and offers conclusions and recommendations for an educational outreach program. | Fall, 1995 |
| ERC535 | Robert | Johnson | Is There Resistance to Gender Equity in The Belize Labour Market? | 20th October, 1994 | |
| ERC544 | Joseph | Perry | Privitization and Economic Growth in Belize | Paper examines the nature of privitization, and explores the pattern of privitization over the past two decades in selected countries where the movement has been most extensive. It then assesses the privitization movement in Belize, and suggests some guidelines for policy makers. | October, 1993 |
| ERC536 | Joseph | Perry | The Belizean Balance of Payments and IMF Intervention | Paper examines the circumstances in Belize that contributed to its balance of payments problems, the effects of IMF conditions on its recovery from recession and international imbalance, and the implications of current economic trends. | October, 1993 |
| ERC538 | Tessa | Carlson | The Impact of Human Disturbances on Black Howler Monkeys | Assessment of the impact of toruism on the natural behavoir of School Troop. Howling is looked at specifically in order to assess what impact induced howling may have on natual howling patters. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC539 | A | Kennedy | An In-site Sanitation System for Gales Point Belize, Central America: Case Study | ||
| ERC540 | C | Borland | Relations Between Urban Growth and Riral Development In Belize | April, 1986 | |
| ERC541 | Lisel | Alamilla | Villagers Beliefs About Tourism in San Jose Succotz, Belize | Study carried out to identify the beliefs which the residents of San Jose Succotz hold toward tourism/ | July, 1995 |
| ERC542 | Lawrence | Vernon | A History of Political Parties in Belize 1950-1981 | ||
| ERC543 | Stefanie | Cohen | A Testament to Creole Drumming | Fall 1995 | |
| ERC536 | Carla | Barnett | Public Policy, Human Development and The Expanding Citrus Economy of Southern Belize | October, 1993 | |
| ERC536 | Central Statistic Office | Belize: External Trade 1980 - 1992 | Paper deals with trade from serveral aspects and its effect on certain sectors of the economy. | October 1993 | |
| ERC536 | Assad | Shoman | Satisfy My Soul: Belize as National State and the Making of Public Policy Beyond The Year 2000 | October 1993 | |
| ERC536 | Anselmo | Castaneda | Agriculture, Trade and The Environment | Paper makes an introductory questioning on the impact to Belizean society by the effects of agricultural and non-agricultural trade unser the conditions in the mid-1990's of a New Global Economy which seeks to liberalize trade by removing tarrif barriers. | October 1993 |
| ERC536 | Report on the Granting of Belizean Nationality and Implications for Voter Registration | October 1993 | |||
| ERC536 | BOWAND | BOWAND's Minimum Wage Campaign | October 1993 | ||
| ERC536 | Joseph | Laure | Belize: 1889-1990 A century of slow change in the purchasing power of low wages | October, 1993 | |
| ERC536 | Mark | Moberg | Out of Work in the Fields of Gold: Belizean Labour and the Banana Industry | October 1993 | |
| ERC545 | Steven & John | Platt & Thorbjarnarson | Status and Life History of the American Crocodile in Belize | Study objectives were to assess the status of C. acutus in the coastal zone, identify populations that would benefit from protection, and provide conservation recommendations to enchanve recovery and insure maintenance of viable populations in Belize. | 27th November, 1997 |
| ERC546 | Ilona | Smiling | Project for Caribbean Political Systems 1991-1992 | To determine the relative and precise significance and social relations of the cultural, racial, and political factors affecting the Ketchi in differing contexts - historical and contemporary, together with their specific implications at all levels of the social structure of Belize. | June 1992 |
| ERC547 | Joseph | Palacio | The Socio-economic Integration of Central American Refugees in Belize | Study lays the groundwork for further insight into the unique role that Belize has played within the region as a host country for the displaced persons in neighbouring countries, | July 1958 |
| ERC548 | Sarah | Kaiser | Motorboats and Manatees: The State of Swallow Caye Hole | Study examines the growing tourist destination and the determine opinions, attitudes and feelings about the status of the site. Suggestions are made for monitoring and law protection and aims to find implications for these suggestions. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC549 | Risa | Kass | Destination Nicholas Caye?! | Fall 1997 | |
| ERC550 | Abigail | Hipps | Views on a proposed community reserve in Gales Points | paper examines the existing attitudes of the residents of Gales Point-Manatee about the proposed community reserve. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC551 | Chris | Templeton | Bird Distribution by Habitat Type at Monkey Bay | Fall 1997 | |
| ERC552 | Sephra | Albert | Traditional Medicine: An Underutilized Resource? | Study object is to explore whether traditional healing is beneficial or detremental to the health of the community of Punta Gorda Town (PG). | Fall 1997 |
| ERC553 | Meera | Patankar | Expansion Potentials at The Community Baboon Sanctuary A Study of Local Involvement in Habitat Preservation | Study investigates potentials for the expansion of the Community Baboon Sanctuary to certain uninvolved and unapproached areas both outside of the sanctuary boundaries, in the two neighbouring villages of Rancho Dolores and Lemonal; and withing the boundaries of the immigrant Taiwanese community. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC554 | Kristin | Hultgren | Benthic Invertebrate Biodiversity in Port Honduras | Research intends to complete a comprehensive biodiversity survey in the form of a species list of invertebrates found in Port Honduras, Belize. It also focuses in particular on the invertebrates founf in the benthic habitants of the shallow banks surrounding the cayes. | Fall 1997 |
| ERC555 | Maria & Harry | Vargas & Barbosa | Los Creole De Belice: Un Estudio Comparativo De Flowers Bank Y Gales Point Manatee de 1950-1970 | 2012 | |
| ERC556 | Bruce | Ergood | The British Heritage in Belize: Different Realities | A listing of social and physical objects brought by the British and still found in Belize. | |
| ERC557 | Bruce | Ergood | European Impositions of Introductions Into the New New World: The British to Honduras | 1992 | |
| ERC558 | M. Laetitia | Solis | Policies to Promote Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Case of Belize | Working paper discusses the Government of Belize's agricultural policies over the 1980-1991 period. It analyses the extent to which these policies have assisted in the development of sustainable agriculture in Belize and looks at issues that must be addressed in order to achieve the policies' objectives. | |
| ERC559 | Amber | Bacca | Internationally Funded Development Projects: Toledo | Paper investigates the impact of internationally finded development programs in the Toledo District. It documents the history of these programs, indetifies specific problems that have occurred and also provides recommendations to alleviate those particular issues. | Fall, 2001 |
| ERC560 | Mavis | Campbell | St. George's Cay: A Short History | August, 1998 | |
| ERC561 | The Garifuna People and Garifuna Settlement Day | ||||
| ERC562 | Jeffrey | McNeely | Economic Incentives for Conserving Natual Resources in the Caribbean | 30th September, 1898 | |
| ERC563 | Stephen | Fairweather | The History of the Mestizos and Mayans of Belize | ||
| ERC564 | Elizabeth | Gilgan | Looting and the Market for Maya Objects: A Belizean Perspective | March 2000 | |
| ERC565 | Diane | Bensel | The Effects of Mondernization on Family Structure in Crooked Tree Village | Paper focuses on the historical background of Crooked Tree's community and family structure. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC566 | Erika & Carrie | Schatz & Brownstein | Indetification of Coral Species in the Tackle Box Area; a Contribution to the CARICOMP Regional Scientific Program | Report of contribution to CARICOMP project to understand productivity, structure and function of the three main coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean: mangroves, sea grasses and coral reefs. Goal was to make standardized, coordinated and long-term observations of the respective habitats. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC567 | Christoffer | Schlarb | A Cultural Music Anthology of the Creole, Maya and Garifuna | Paper documents the process by which a cultural music anthology was recorded and produced. | Spring 1999 |
| ERC568 | David | Ludwig | The Land Rights Issue in the Toledo District of Belize An Exploration of Arguments, Opinions and Suggestions | Paper serves as an objective guide to the different arguments and ideas concerning the welfare of Toledo District communities as they deal with the problem of securing rights to land. | Spring, 1998 |
| ERC569 | Christine | Cordner | The Effects of Jaguar Conservation Legislation on the Small Cattle Ranchers of Crooked Tree Village | Spring 1994 | |
| ERC570 | Carrie | Conway | "Caye Cauker, Coconuts and Changes" | Study objectives were to assess what life was like on the island before tourism, the economic, social and environmental effects of tourisn, the degree of foreign investment and intervention if the island and threats of the future. | Spring 1994 |
| ERC571 | Aimee | Althoff | Preserving Masewal Culture: The Use of Medicinal Plants in Mountain Pine Ridge | Paper explores the history of San Antonio's relationship with Mountain Pine Ridge, and the significance of medicinal plants to the Masewal culture. | Spring 1998 |
| ERC572 | Amber | Fisher | Development in Toledo - The effects on Mayan Women in the Toledo District | Study assesses how development effects Maya women and children of the Toledo District by studying their culture and the work they do. | Spring 1998 |
| ERC573 | Richard | Wilk | Consumer Goods, Cultural Imperialism and Underdevelopment in Belize | Paper argues that more than economic development is needed for Belize to become more self-sufficient. | October, 1989 |
| ERC574 | "And They Would Not Be Slaves: The Garifuna of Central America" | ||||
| ERC575 | Dion | Phillips | An examination of the Belize Defence Force | ||
| ERC576 | B | Rai | Small Farmer Development in Belize and Open Markets | October 1994 | |
| ERC577 | Silvana | Woods | Belize Creole: Prevalant Crippling Attitudes | paper explores the linguistic status of Belize Creole and discusses the effects of derogatory attitudes to it, drawing on research findings and examples from Belizean writings and situations. | October 1989 |
| ERC578 | Joseph | Palacio | The Rise of Local Area Community Organizations in Belize | 1989 | |
| ERC579 | Louise | Smith | Factors Affecting Youth in Belize | ||
| ERC580 | Derek | Warren | Public Access to the Broadcast Media | Paper addresses to what extent should government departments and NGOs and international bodies working in the social sectors have right of access to the broadcast media for communication fod public service messages. | |
| ERC581 | Diane | Haylock | Shattering the 90% Myth: Literacy in Belize from a Popular Education Perspective | ||
| ERC582 | Michael | Stone | Towards an Agenda for Refugees, Immigration and National Development in Belize | June 1990 | |
| ERC583 | E | Cayetano | Towards a Common Garifuna Orthography | July, 1991 | |
| ERC584 | Kristin | Schmelz | The Garifuna Dugu and the Catholic Church of Belize | Paper explores the convergence of the Garifuna Dugu and the Roman Catholic faith and the controversy surrounding them. | Spring 2000 |
| ERC585 | Tara | Ellicott | The Sustainability of Cacao Farming in the Toledo District | Paper examines cacao farming for export to determine if it is a positive alternative for Toledo farmers. | Spring 2000 |
| ERC586 | Michael | Day | Development Issues in the Cayo District: An Introduction | Paper presents a selection of development and conservation issues affecting the Cayo District, centered around the towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena. | 1996 |
| ERC586 | Michael | Day | Conservation of Karst in the Cayo District | Assessment of the progress of a conservation program which affords varying degrees and protection to the country's karst landscapes and their varies resources. | 1996 |
| ERC586 | Jeffrey | Kueny | Expansion of Citrus Cultivation in the Karst of the Cayo District | 1996 | |
| ERC586 | Timothy | Barta | Forest-Pasture Boundary Dynamics: An Initial Assessment of Human Impact on Forest Edge Vegetation in the Western Cayo District | 1996 | |
| ERC586 | Eric | Riser | Ecotourism in the Western Cayo District | 1996 | |
| ERC586 | Kae | DonLevy | Solid Waste Treatment Issues in the Western Cayo District | 1996 | |
| ERC586 | Nicola | Ahrens | Belizean Viewpoints and Involvement in the Maya Archaeological Sites in the Cayo District | 1996 | |
| ERC587 | Montserrat | Duran | Publishing in Belize in the Context of Economic and Cultural Globalization | Paper makes an attepmt to analyze the advantages, disadvantages and dangers of the top five conglomerates controling eighty percent of the publishing market and its repercussions in Belize. | March 2001 |
| ERC588 | Deacon | Cathers | A Possible Cause of Our Education Problems in Belize | ||
| ERC589 | P.C. and E. | Esselman and Boles | Status and Future Needs of Limnological Research in Belize | 2001 | |
| ERC457 | James | Waldram | Cultural Research with Traditional Healers | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Elizabeth | Cunin | People and events in Belizean History: Robert Sydney Turton Against the Mexican Government: Forestry Economy, Migratory Policies and Relations of Power in the years 1920-30 | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Nigel | Encalada | June 1st, 1797: The Public Meeting and the Flowers Bank 14 | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Adonofe | Iyo | Flight from Enslavement in the Bay of Honduras to Freedom in Peten, Guatemala: Premilinary Findings | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Lyra | Spang | Food, Identity and Tourism: Politicizing and Commoditizing Food in Placencia, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Phylicia | Pelayo | Grand Ball in the 'Kolcha' capital: Exploring the Origin and Cultural Significance of a European Tradition in a Post-Colonial Era | 2012 | |
| ERC457 | Rolando | Cocom | Carnaval in Caledonia | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Gyles & Sonja | Iannone & Schwake | Alternative Approaches To Socio-Ecological Crisis: Perspectives From Eblize's North Vaca Plateau | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Arlen & Diane | Chase | Temporal Cycles in the Archaeology of Maya Residential Groups from Caracol, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Laura, Holly, Mark, Barbara | Kasakowsky, Moyes, Robinso, Voorhies | Ceramics of Las Cuevas and The Chiquibul: At World's End | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Jaime | Awe | Journey on the Cahal Pech Time Machine: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the Dynastic Sequence at a Belize Valley Maya Polity | Paper aims to demonstrate that we can identify a sequence of rulers, spanning from Preclassic times, at Cahal Pech. | 2012 |
| ERC590 | Jason, Sylvia, Sara, Bernadette, Jason | Yaeger, Batty, Bratsch, Cap, Whitaker | Recent Excavations at the Buenavista Del Cayo West Acropolis | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Fred & Vernon | Valdez Jr. & Scarborough | Time, Distance and the Ancient Maya of La Milpa | 2012 | |
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| ERC590 | Kathryn | Brown | Missing Persons: The Role of Ancestors in the Rise of Complexity | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Astrid, Mareika, Eleanor | Runggaldier, Brouwer, Harrison-Buck | Hats Kaab: A Newly Discovered E-Group at the Closing of the 13th Baktun | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Eleanor, adam, Satoru | Harrison-Buck, Kaeding, Murata | A Network of Waterways in the Eastern Belize Watershed: Recent Survey and Excavation of the 2012 Field Season | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | David, Thomas, Lisa | Mixter, Jamison, LeCount | Actuncan's Noble Court: New Insights into Political Strategies of an Enduring Center in the Upper Belize River Valley | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Sarah | Kurnick | The Importance of the Past to the Ancient Maya Political Present: Recent Investigations at Callar Creek, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Sara & Lisa | Shults & LeCount | Obsidian Form and Distribution at Actucan, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Kathryn, Leah, Whitney, Thomas | Brown, McCurdy, Lytle, Chapman | Recent Investigations of the Mopan vcalley Preclassic Project at Xunantunich, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Jon, Teresa, Terry | Spenard, Wagner, Powis | Of Shells, Soda Straws, Caves, and Kings: Crafting, Body Practices, and Identity Making Among the Ancient Maya of Pacbitun, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Jennifer & Terry | Weber & Powis | At the End of the Road: Investigations of Termini Complex at Pacbitun, Cayo District, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Lisa & Colleen | Lucero & Lindsay | Into the Depths of Cara Blanca: Exploring the Maya Underworld | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Brett, Matthew, Krystle, Vincent | Houk, Harris, Kelley, Sisneros | The 2012 Investigations at Chan Chich and Kaxil Uinic | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Alec & Helen | McClellan & Haines | Casting a Light in the Wilderness: The Ancient Maya Site of Ka'Kabish, Northern Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Rissa | Trachman | The Site of Dos Hombres and Nearby Hintherland Households: A Multiscale Prespective of Previous and Ongoing Investigations | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Lauren, Brett, Gregory, Lindsey | Sullivan, Houk, Zaro, Moats | Deciphering a Terminal Classic Surface Artifact Deposit at Courtyard 100, La Milpa: The View from the Cermaic Data | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | James | Aimers | Maya Pottery Production and Exchange: What We Think We Know and What We Wish We Knew | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Thomas | Guderjan | Landscapes and Maya Settlement in Northwestern Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Mikael, Chelsea, Geoffrey | Fauvelle, Fisher, Braswell | Return to the Kingdom of the Eagle: Archaeological Investigations at Nim Li Punit, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Amy, Claire, Keith | Thompson, Ebert, Prufer | Shifting Dynamica and Use of Space at Uxbenka | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Valorie, Keith, Clayton, Brendan, Douglas | Aquino, Prufer, Meredith, Culleton, Kennett | Constraining the Age of Abandonment of Uxbenka Site Core Using Archaeologcal Stratigraphy and AMS C Dates | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Elizabeth & Heather | Sills & McKillop | Underwater Excavations of Classic Period Salt Works, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Rachel, Heather, Elizabeth | Watson, McKillop, Sillis | Brine Enriching Slag Heaps or Mounded Remains of Salt makers Homes? Earthern Mounds in the Mangroves at the Paynes Creek Salt Works | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Anabel & Cynthia | Ford & Ellis | Teaching Secrets of Conservation and Prosperity in the Maya Forest | 2012 | |
| ERC590 | Lauren | Springs | Results of the Skeletal Analysis for the 2011 St. George's Caye Archaeological Field Season | 2012 | |
| ERC591 | Christine, Mary, Henry, Fred | white, Pohl, Schwarcz, Longstaffe | Isoptopic Evidence for Maya Patterns of Deer and Dog Use at Preclassic Colha | Based on an assessment of human expolitation of animals in the New World, it is proposed that one criterion for domestication should be dependence upon humans for foor, a trait testes through isotopic analysis of faunal remains. | 2001 |
| ERC592 | Christine, David, Fred, Kimberley | White, Pendergast, Longstaffe, Law | Social Complexity and Food Systems at Altun Ha, Belize: The Isotopic Evidence | Study reports stable carbon-isotopic ratios for both bone collagen and apatite, and nitrogen-isotope ratios for bone collagen for 72 Maya skeletons from 9 zones reprenting contrasting status groups at Altun Ha, eblize | 2001 |
| ERC593 | Shawn | Van Ausdal | Development and Discourse among the Maya of Southern Belize | Article investigates a prevailing notion in development texts from the refion that population pressure respresents an environmental threat and examines the consequences of apparent attempt by the government to employ development projects to disfuse lical contention over plans to privatize Maya land tenure. | June 2001 |
| ERC594 | Laurie | Medina | A Class 'Politics of Difference': Ethnic Mobilization Among Workers in Belize | Paper evaluates the prescriptions for working class political activity advocates by two alternative theoretical frameworks. | 1998 |
| ERC595 | Donna | Bonner | Garifuna Children's Language Shame: Ethnic Stereotypes, National Affiliation, and Transnational Immigration as Factors in Language Choice in Southern Belize | Article explores the effects of ethnic stereotypes, demographic shifts, and nationalism on language choice in thw town of Dangriga, Belize. | January 2001 |
| ERC596 | Chad | Thomas | Digression and Insertion in a Belizean Folktale | 2000 | |
| ERC597 | T.R., B.M., S.G., T.A, G.P., S.T. | Rainwater, Adair, Platt, Anderson, Cobb, McMurry | Mercury in Morelet's Crocodile Eggs from Northern Belize | Analysis of mercury testings in 31 nonviable Morelet's crocodile eggs collected from eight nests across three localities in northern Belize. | October 2001 |
| ERC598 | Ted, Thomas, Steven, Scott, Todd | Wu, rainwater, Platt, McMurry, Anderson | DDE in Eggs of Two Crocodile Species from Belize | Asssessment of contaminant exposure to Organocholrine in Belize Crocodiles, nonviable eggs. | 2000 |
| ERC599 | Steven, Thomas and Scott | Platt, Rainwater, McMurry | Twinning in Morelet's Crocodile (Crocodylys Moreletii) and a Brief Review of Twinning in Crocodilians | 2000 | |
| ERC600 | Thomas, Steven, Ricahrd and Scott | Rainwater, Platt, Robbins, McMurray | Ticks from a Morelet's Crocodile in Belize | 2001 | |
| ERC601 | Deborah | Best | Gender Concepts: Convergence in Cross-Cultural Research and Methodologies | Article discusees socialization experiences and cultural expectations that may be linked to gender differences and concepts. | 2001 |
| ERC602 | Peter | Hitchen | State and Church in British Honduras Education, 1931-39: A British Colonial Pespective | 2000 | |
| ERC603 | Charles | Clark | State Leasehold and Mayan Customary Cultivation Rights in Belize | 2000 | |
| ERC604 | Tracy, Jeffrey | Farrell, Marion | Identifying and Assessing Ecotourism Visitor Impacts at Eight Protected areas in Costa Rica and Belize | 2001 | |
| ERC605 | Rosaleen | Duffy | Shadow Players: Ecotourism Development, Corruption and State Politics in Belize | Article examines the way that developing societies have been increasingly incorporated into global networks, and the eggect that this has had on the states themselves. | 2000 |
| ERC606 | Richard | Wilk | Consuming Morality | Paper addresses the close relationship between moral discourse and the practices of consumption. | 2001 |
| ERC607 | Richard, Steve, Thomas, Wendy | Robbins, Platt, Rainwater, Weisman | Statistical Measures of Association Between Amblyomma Sabanerae Stoll (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) and the Furrowed Wood Turtle, Rhinoclemmys Areolata (Dumeril and Bibron) (Testudines: Emydidae), in Northern Belize | Results of a study of 159 rick collection, comprising 411 specimens frm 261 adults and juveniles of the furrowed wood turtle, on a tract of pine forest and savanna in northern Belize | 2001 |
| ERC608 | Jason, Robert, Belito, Itzhak | Bonander, Kohn, Arana, Levav | An Anthropological and Epidemiological Overview of Mental Health in Belize | Article presents a preliminary overview of the mental health needs and resources in Belize using historic, demographic, epidemiologic and ethnographic methods to survey both the needs and societal resources available to the ethnically heterogeneous population of this country. | March 2000 |
| ERC609 | Donna | Bonner | Beauty, Propriety and Status in a Former British Colony: European Aesthetic Theory and Social Distinction Based Upon Racial 'Appearances" in Dangriga, Belize | March 1999 | |
| ERC610 | Michael | Crossley | Cross-cultural Issues, Small States and Research: Capacity Building in Belize | Article examines ways of improving the contribution of research and evaluation to the process of educational development in small states. | 2001 |
| ERC611 | Richard | Wilk | Whose Forest? Whose Land? Whose Ruins? Ethics and Conservation | Using the example of the recent lawsuit over logging on Mayan Indian reservations in the Cental American country of Belize, this paper argues that cultural essentialist positions are no longer tenable. | 1999 |
| ERC612 | Norman, Amanda, Sara | Hammond, Clarke, Donaghey | The Long Goodbye: Middle Preclassic Maya Archaeology at Cuello, Belize | 1995 | |
| ERC613 | R.E.W., Norman | Adams, Hammond | Maya Archaeology, 1976-1980: A review of Major Publications | The review examines major publication by geographical area, and then analyzes current knowledge of several key topics in Maya Archaeology. | 1982 |
| ERC614 | Grace | Brooks | Managing Human Impacts on South Water Caye, Belize | Objectives of this study were to determine in what ways humans are impacting South Water Caye and the adjacent reef, how these impacts have increased over time, how these impacts might be managed by the Fisheries Department in the South Water Caye Marine Reserve. | Spring 2002 |
| ERC615 | Sarah | Raines | Fire Management in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve | Paper reviews fire fighting techniques as well as the history if fire management in the Reserve and analyzes the effectiveness of current management. It also examines the role that the stakeholders in the management of th Reserve play. | Spring 2002 |
| ERC616 | Wilder | Daniels | Caracol and the Tourism Development Project: For a Better Future | Study focuses on public opinion of Caracol Maya ruin, to provide necessary feedback for the TDP, MOT, and IDB on the success of the Tourism Development Project taking place in Belize. The Results of this study show the success of the project, but cautions on the over-developing such a fragile site. | 2002 |
| ERC617 | Chriss | Earnest | Buccaneers and Baymen: British Colonists in Belize A Short History of Belize | Research paper investigares not only the initial European settlement on the remote coast of Belize during the 17th century, but also the subsequent development and expansion of Belize during the 18th and 19th centuries. Special empahis is places on the later emergence of the tulmultuous period of the Caste Wars during the 19th century. Included is a section on the 19th century archaeological material recovered during the 1984 season of the Corozal Postclassic Project. | 30th September, 1988 |
| ERC618 | John | Arana | Draft: Pamana Embassy in Belmopan, Belize | Research presented is the draft "Embajada de Panama en Belmopan, Belize" is an alternative to the government of Panama to build a suitable facility for diplomats in Belize. | 2001 |
| ERC619 | Terry, Fred, Thomas, Jeffrey, Stanley | Powis, Valdez, Hester, Hurst, Tarka | Spouted Vessels and Cacao Use Among the Preclassic Maya | Paper provides a contextualand functional analysis of Preclassic spouted vessels found across the Maya lowlands and highlands. Additionally, the results of chemical analyses on residues collected from spouted vessels found in Middle and Late Preclassic burials and Colha. | 2002 |
| ERC620 | Anabel | Ford | Maya Settlement Pattern Chronology in the Belize River Area and the Implications for the Development of the Central Maya Lowlands | 1985 | |
| ERC621 | Adrian | Bannister | Women's Co-operative Groups and the empowerment Process in Southern Belize | Dissertation represents an illustrative and exploratory analysis ofwomen's cornmill co-operative groups in Maya communities in Southern Belize. Two case studies were investigated, to compate and contrast the issues affecting different co-operatives initiatives in the area. | 2001 |
| ERC622 | Carel, Karin | Roessingh, Bras | Garifuna Settlement Day: Tourism Attraction, National Celebration Day, Or Manifestation of Ehtnic Identity | Articke focuses on the way the government of Belize, a postcolony nation in Central america, has to maneuver between its aim to work towards a nation-state mentatlity and the existence of local ethnic manifestation, which emphasizes the internal diversity in this multiethnic society. | 2003 |
| ERC623 | Michael | Stone | Diaspora Sounds from Caribbean Central America | July-December, 2008 | |
| ERC624 | Joel, Joe | Wainright, Bryan | Cartography, terriroty, property: postcolonial reflections on indigeious counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize | Paper outlines an analytic for examining indigenous mapping projects, drawing upon two prominent instances - by the Maya of Belize and the Mayangna community if Awas Tingni in Nicaragua- where human rights lawsuits have been woven together with participatory mapping. | 2009 |
| ERC625 | Joel | Wainwright | 'The first duties of persons living in a civilized community': the Maya, the Church and the colonial state in southern Belize | Through a close reading of archival texts from the late 19th century and early 20th century, this paper examines the spatial and political relations between three froups" the Catholica Church, the British colonial state and the Maya communities of souther British Honduras. | 2008 |
| ERC626 | Sarah, Megan | O' Braitis, O' Brien | Community Development in New Settlements Lessons from San Carlos and Indian Church | Study is an effort to understand the development experience of these two communities and dervice lessons which could be useful for the promotion of development in similar communities throughout Belie. | July, 1998 |
| ERC627 | Greg | Taylor | Torrens' Contemptaneous Antipodean* Simulacrum* | 2007 | |
| ERC628 | Carel, Hanneke, Myrte | Roessingh, Duijnhoven, Berendse | Caribbean Delight: Moving Beyond the Sustainability Discourse iin Tourism | Although debates on sustainable forms of tourism deelopment are a positive direction for the tourism field, this paper argues that these debates will not really contribute to the progress of the field as long as there is a lack of local accounts of actors in such tourism destinations. It presents empirical data from Belize and the Dominican Republic, the aim is to move beyond the dominant 'sustainability discourse' in the field of tourism in which mass tourism is per definition 'bad' and small scale tourism is 'good', and gain insight into what is actually goin on at the micro level. | 2008 |
| ERC629 | Carel, Karim | Roessingh, Darwish | Self-employment and the chicle trade: the case of the Lebanese minority in the cayo district of Belize. | The focus of this article is on the Lebanese migration to Belize and how the Lebanese used self-employment to become successful entrepreneurs in Belize. | 2013 |
| ERC630 | Anne, Carrel | Kok, Roessingh | Where "God sleeps at night": Integrations, Differentiation and Fragmentation in a Mennonite Colony | This paper is about the community of Shipyard Colony in Northern Belize, home to over 3000 Mennonitesm the majority Old Colony Church members, a minority Kleine Gemeinde and Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church members. It lookes at Shipyard from three cultural perspectives, that of integration, differentiation and fragmentation to explain how changes in the last 50 years affected community life | |
| ERC631 | Carel, Margot | Roessingh, Nuijten | Female self-employmnet among the Kleine Gemeinde in the Mennonite settlement of Blue Creel, Northern Belize | This study explores the underexposed possibilities of starting and running a business by Mennonite women in the Kleine Gemeinde community if Blue Creek, Belize. | 2012 |
| ERC632 | Carel, Kees | Roessingh, Boersma | 'We are growing Belize': modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite Settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize. | This article addresses the entrepreneurial and organisational activities of a specific Mennonite group in Belize called the Kleine Gemeinde community of Spanish Lookout. Building upon Christian beliefs, agricultural skills and strong work ethos, this group was able to build up a stable, local economic network. The authors suggest that their collective resistance against other social groups and their day to dat strictness lead to processes of 'selective modernity'. | 2011 |
| ERC633 | Marissa, Carel | Pompa, Roesingh | The overseas Taiwanese in Belize an exploration of a South-South development project in a Belizean context. | paper aims to give an account to describe the way the South-South development programme is realized between Taiwan and Belize. | 2010 |
| ERC634 | M. | Kellman | Dry Season Week Communities in the Upper Belize Valley | Objectives of this research were to examine the composition and dynamics of week communities of farmland in the upper Belize valley in the hope that the results achieved would enable predictions to be made about the week communities that are likely to evolve in the valley as agricultural activities expand within it, and suggest possible improved contril measures. | December, 1973 |
| ERC635 | Kristina | Baines | Good Men Grow Corn: Embodied Ecological Heritage and Health in a Mopan Maya Community | Paper explores the connection between ecological knowledge and practices, and the concurret construction of heritage, and communityhealth and wellness, broadly defined. | 2014 |
| ERC635 | Aminata | Maraesa | In A Good Position: Avoiding The Risk Of Fetal Malpresentation | article looks at some of the cultural beliefs prevalent in southern Belize surrounding health and healing that are expressed through 'nointing alongside the structural contraints faced by pregnant women in the Toledo District to explore how perinatal risk is conceptualized and purportedly mitigated though 'nointing. | |
| ERC635 | Alicia | McGill | Oal Tingz, Kolcha, and Rooinz: Belizean Community Member Prespectives About Archaeology and Cultural Diversity | Paper begins with an overiew of public archaeology and current trendsin heritage studies. It then contextualizes such work in Belize, and summerizes general findings in reards to youth learning about archeology and cultural difference, community concerns about cultural preservation, and community interests in archaeology and tourism development. It concludes with specultation about potential future public archaeology and heritage projects. | |
| ERC635 | Kathryn | Brown | Celebrating 2012: It's About Time | Paper compares and contrasts ritual celebrations at two important archaeological sites in the Maya Lowlands, Caracol and Chichen Itza. | |
| ERC635 | Lyra | Spang | Eating Belize: Tourism Experiences and Expectations With Food | ||
| ERC635 | Selene | Solis | The Influence of Contact Linguistics in the Behavior of the /S/ Phoneme of Residents of Las Flores, Belmopan: A Socio-Phonetic Study | Paper highlights the phenomenon of language contact through a sociolinguistic study of the village of Las Flores loacated in the City of Belmopan. | |
| ERC635 | Christian | Wells | The Impacts of Tourism Development on Perception and Practices of Sustainable Wastewater Management on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize | Paper examines the ways and extent to which human perceptions and practices related to wastewater management impact coastal health and livelihoods in tourism-depedent economies on the Caribbean. | |
| ERC635 | Rebecca | Zarger | Sharing and Sustaining Maya Environmental Heritage in Southern Belize | Paper documents an approach to sharing and sustaining Maya environment and cultural heritage though the development of a primary school curriculum and associated activities in order to bring cultural knowledge and practives to formal school settings. | |
| ERC635 | Lilia | Zalasar | The First Immigration Laws of the English Colony Against the Arrival of Migrant Groups (XIX Century) | Paper presents the history and traits of legal mechanisms created upon the arrival of new migrants groups to British Honduras since the nineteenth century to the early twentirth century. | |
| ERC636 | Alicia | McGill | AAL A WI DA WAN?: Cultural Education, Heritage, and Citizenship in the Belizean State | Dissertation is an ethnograpgic examination of the state through the domains of cultural education and heritage practices in Belize. It explores state ideologies about national identity, cultural diversity, and citizenship that are filtered and reinforced though education and heritage practices. | August 2012 |
| ERC637 | Dana | Ayuso | Employees' Perception of Human Resource Management Functions and Its Impact on Employees' Performance at the Treasury Department in Belize City | Quatitative study to determine the correlation between Human Resource Management Functions and employees' perception and job performance. It sought to investigate if demographic data such as age, gender, and years of service, education background and job position have any significance on employees' perception and job performance. | 31st May, 2014 |
| ERC638 | Marisol | Torres Hernandez | Refugiados Salvadorenos En Belize: En Busca De Un Lugar En La Historia | June 2013 | |
| ERC639 | Charles | Collins | Refugee Resettlment in Belize | Belize has become the destination for an estimated 30,000 refugees from political unrest elsewhere in Central America. Most refugees seek accomodations privately, but some have settled in a project jointly sponsored by the Belizean government and the United Nations. This articles examins refugees' perceptions of the two types of resettlement. | 1995 |
| ERC640 | Richard | Wilk | The Search for Tradition in Southern Belize: A Personal Narrative | ||
| ERC641 | Mark | Moberg | Crown Colony as Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company in British Honduras, 1900-1920 | This article examines the relationship between the United Fruit Company and the colonial government of British Honduras. Contrary to claims of administrative impartiality, colonial as company advocates before the Colonial Office, actions that ultimately undermined the colony's independent banana producers. | 1996 |
| ERC642 | Mark | Moberg | Myths that Divide: Immigrant Labour and Class Segmentation in the Belize Banana Industry | The relationship among ethnicity, nationality and resistance is examined in this case study, which analyzes how national and ethnic identities are reproduced by the recruitment of labour in the banana inudstry of Belize, Central America. | 1996 |
| ERC643 | Stuart & Erlet | Mcminn & Cater | Tourist Typology Observations from Belize | This examination of tourism on the island of Amergris Caye, Beilze, utilizes site investigations, questionnairs and in dept interviews in order to ascertain the carious impacts on a rapidly growing Third World destination. | 1998 |
| ERC644 | Riad | Ajami | Strategies for Tourism Transnationals in Belize | This paper examines the economic and political contexts and proposed strategies for establishing a large-scale, first class tourist resort in a small developling country: Belize. This study evaluates the Caribbean tourism market, the current and unexpected business climate, and the major political and economic forces. | 1988 |
| ERC645 | Laurie | Medina | Commoditizing Culture Tourism and Maya Identity | This ethnographic study examined how the commoditization of culture for tourism affected traditional practices in a formerly Maya village adjacent to the most-visited Mayan ruins in Belize. | 2003 |
| ERC646 | D | Lancaster | Life History of the Boucard Tinamou in British Honduras Part I Distribution and General Behavior and Part Ii Breeding Biology | Paper presents a study of the Boucard Timanou carried in British Honduras in the spring of 1957 and 1958. | 1964 |
| ERC647 | William | Davidson | In Search of Garifuna, Beachfolk of the Bay of Honduras | Article reprinted from National Geographic Society Research Reports, Vol. 14, pages 129-141 | 1982 |
| ERC648 | Richard | Wilk | Little House in the Jungle: The Causes of Variation in House Size Among Modern Kekchi Maya | Interpreting variation in the size and quality of houses is a difficult task for the archaeologist. Are larger houses a sign of a larger household which has lived at the site longer than others> This paper uses ethnographic data on the Kekchi Maya to test these alternative explanations. The discussion reveals a complex relationship between social posititons,wealth and house size. It is suggested that houses serve different symbolic functions in settlments with different kinds of economies. | 1983 |
| ERC649 | Mark | Moberg | Structural Adjustment and Rural Development: Inferences froma Belizean Villages | This article examines how IMF intervation and structural adjustment policies negotiated at the national and multilateral levels were experiences by residents of a village in Stann Creek district, Belize. | 1992 |
| ERC650 | Karl & Amber | Roessing & Schoonderwoerd | Traditional Farmers or Modern Businessmen? Religious Differentiation and Entepreneaurship in Kleine Gemeinde Mennonite Community in Belize. | This article addresses the religious and entrepreneurial differentiation within Spanish Lookout, a Mennonite Community in the Cayo district in Belize, Central America. | 2005 |
| ERC651 | Steven, Thomas & Stephen | Platt, Rainwater & Nichols | A recent population assessment of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Turneffe Atoll, Belize | 2004 | |
| ERC652 | Davis, Jennifer, Steven, Thomas, Adam, Scott… | Ray, Dever, Platt, Rainwater, Finger, McMurry… | Low levels of nucleotide diversity in Crocodylus moreletti and evidence of hybridization with C. acutus | 2004 | |
| ERC653 | Anne | Mcpherson | Citizens V. Clients: Working Women and Colonial Reform in Puerto Rico and Belize, 1932-1945 | 2003 | |
| ERC654 | Michael | Steinberg | Folk House-types as Indicators of Tradition: The Case of the Mopan Maya in Southern Belize | It is often assumed that indigenous folk house-types are indicators of traditional cultural patterns. Indigenous villages that are dominated by folk structures are generally thought to maintain many traditional culture traits in contrast to villages that are dominated by modern, national-culture house-types. This paper discusses cultural circumstances that argue against the assuption that traditional housing can be correlated with traditional cultures. | 1996 |
| ERC655 | Anne | Mcpherson | Colonial Matriarchs: Garveyism, Materialism, and Belize's Black Cross Nurses, 1920-1952 | 2003 | |
| ERC656 | S. G., T.R., S.W. | Platt, Rainwater, Brewer | Aspects of the burrowing ecology of nine-banded armadillos in northern Belize | 2004 | |
| ERC657 | Carel & Myrte | Roessingh & Berendse | Combining Sustainable Tourism and Cruise-Ships in Belize | This article focuses on the way tourism entrepreneurs and the government of Belize cope with the aparently conflicting processes they come across while developing their tourism products. Although traditionally focused on small-scale, sustainable tourism Belize has recently been discovered by cruise ship lines. The case of Belize is used to further develop ideas on practicing sustainable tourism and cruis tourism, with a focus on the role of govenments and tourism entrepreneurs in this development. | 2005 |
| ERC658 | Nick | Williams | An Introduction to Cave Exploration in Belize | Systematic speleological exploration has been taking place in Belize since about 1960. An estimated total of 250 km of passage have now been mapped, ranging from low dry grovels to large, active river passafe, and two of the largest underground chambers in the world. The author assigns caves to either geographical areas and describes the history of recent exploration in each. Future exploration problems and priorities are also discussed. | |
| ERC658 | Pete | Hollings | The Value of Small Expeditions to Regional cave Research: A Reconnaisance to the Cayo District of Belize | During a five week perios, 19 caves were explored by a team of four cavers comprising the 1994 Mendip Caving Groups expedition to Belize. Six sizeable caves were identified in the Cretaceous limestone, west of the Maya Mountains, and surveyed a total length of 2.5km. Time spent in the field in broken down so as to show both the advantages and disadvantages of small-scale expedition. | |
| ERC658 | Logan | McNatt | Cave Archaeology of Belize | Approximately 300 caves have been documented in Belize in the 100 years. These include 198 registered archaeological sites. Ethnohistoric, ethnographic, iconographic, and archaeological sources indicare the importance of caves in Maya culture over a period spanning at least 1,500 years. Looting Is a major problem, and lack of funding seriously compromises not only the protection of cave sites, but also the preservation of materials and publication of the iunformation recovered by archaeological research. | |
| ERC658 | Thomas | Miller | Geologic and Hydrologic Controls on Karst and Cave Development in Belize | ||
| ERC658 | Philip, Robert and Edward | Reeder, Brinkman and Alt | Karstification on the Northern Cava Plateau, Belize | ||
| ERC658 | James & George | Reddell & Guatemala | Biology of the Chiquibul Cave System, Belize and Guatemala | ||
| ERC658 | Michael | Day | Conservation of Karst In Belize | ||
| ERC659 | Mark | Moberg | Transnational Labor and Refugee Enclaves in a Central American Banana Industry | This article assesses the origins and migration plans of immigrantn workers in the Belizean banana industry. Despite diminishing conflict in their homelands, most immigrants workers do not intent to return home permanently. They nonetheless retain an transnational orientation through sustainedn determinants of their settlement intentions. Policy recommendations are made that would alleviate the abusive conditions to which many immigrant workers are subjected. | |
| ERC660 | Michael | Camille | Historical Geography of the Belizean Logwood Trade | For the first century of English settlement in Belize, the territory's place in the worl economic system and British Imperial system was largely determined by the strenght of the longwood industry. Logwood extraction in Belize satisfied the growing demand for natural dyestuffs in Europe. This study describes the geography of early logwood extraction and its effects on the Belizean landscape and places the industry in a wider economic and geopolitical context | 1996 |
| ERC661 | Robert | Horwich | Breeding Behaviors in the Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra) of Belize | Adulterous breeding between a female howling monkey (Alouatta pigra) of one troop with a male of an adjacent troop occurred despite territorial defense between the two troops. The Specific behaviors are describes as well as a synopsis of daily events which occurred between the female and two males from adjacent troops. A discussion of how this interaction and the behavior patterns relate to what is known about breeding in howler monkeys and related species follows. | 1983 |
| ERC662 | Robert | Horwich | Geographical Distribution of the Black Howler (Alouatta pigra) in Central America | The geographic range of the black howler, Alouatta pigra in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize was investigated by travelling through and visiting 65 locations withing or close to the expected range. The existence of the species was noted through first hand observations or was documented by talking with residents and knowledgable people in the area. | 1986 |
| ERC663 | Robert & Kris | Horwich & Gebhard | Roaring Rhythms in Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra) of Belize | Roaring was recorded during 15 min intervals for 55 days from April 29 to July 14, 1981 in the area arounf Bermuda Landing, Belize. Results indicate a gradual change in the daily profile of roaring from dry to rainy season. | 1983 |
| ERC664 | Robert | Horwoch | Species Status of the Black Howler Monkey, Alouatta pigra in Belize | Small troop sizes which averaged 5.23 members per troop and the early descent of male testes in Alouatta pigra show a marked difference from A. palliata. These differences strenghten Smith's (1970) observations of morphological differences between pigra and A. Palliata. | 1983 |
| ERC665 | Wallace | Joefield-Napier | External Public Debt and Public Finance in OECS Member Countries and Belize: 1977-1982 | This paper analyses the past trends in the external public debt, debt serving capacitues and public finances of OECS member countries and Belize. It also analyses trends in the external public debt of OECS member countries and Belize over the 1977-82 period and provides a brief review of the financial performance of individual country's public sector, and estimate that magnitude and impact of public sector changes on the external public debt. | 1985 |
| ERC666 | John | Everitt | The Growth and Development of Belize City | The purpose of this paper is to gather together much of the scattered material on Belize City, in the hope that this codification will help the reader to understand the growth and present status of the city, and perhaps, inspire others to do futher research on this, still the major urban centre of Belize | 1986 |
| ERC667 | Trevor | Petch | Dependency, land and Oranges in Belize | 1986 | |
| ERC668 | G. | Robinson | Agricultural change in the Belize River Valley | The Belize River valley is one of the principal areas of farmin activity in Belize. Agriculture is dominated by smallholders whose farming activities have been investigated by means of a survey of five communities in the Valley. Emphasis in this article is places upon recent changes, constrainrs affecting the farmers and upon atempts to improve their situation. | |
| ERC669 | O. | Bolland | The Social Structure and Social Relations of the Settlement in the Bay of Honduras (Belize) in the 18th Century | 1973 | |
| ERC670 | David | Pendergast | Lamanai, Belize: Summary of Excavation Results, 1974-1980 | 1981 | |
| ERC671 | Douglas | Pearce | Planning for Tourism in Belize | 1984 | |
| ERC672 | E. | Rowbotham | The Design and Construction of the Hummingbird Highway | ||
| ERC673 | Carl | Jantzen | From the Maya to the Mennonited: Intercommunity Relationships in West Central Belize | This paper explored interethnic relationships in a newly emerging nation by focusing on a group of Mennonited who have established a colony in the Cayo District of west-central Belize. IT builds on a frame-work suggested and data supplied by Mazzarelli (1967) who studied community intterelationships in the same area ebfore the Mennonites were influential participants in this pural society. | 1987 |
| ERC674 | J.D.H., J.T. & J. L. | Lambert, Arnason, Gale | Leaf-litter and Changing Nutrient Levels in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Hardwood Forest, Belize, C.A. | 1980 | |
| ERC675 | J. T. & J.D.H. | Arnason & Lambert | Nitrogen cycling in the seasonally dry forest zone of Belize, Central America | 1982 | |
| ERC676 | J.D.H., A.H. & J.T. | Lambert, Siemens & Arnason | Ancient Maya Drained Field Agriculture: It's Possible Application Today in the New River Floodplain, Belize, C.A. | 1984 | |
| ERC677 | John | Lambert | Distribution of Vegetation on Maya ruins and its relationship to ancient land-use at Lamanai, Belize | 1978 | |
| ERC678 | Paul, John, J.T. & Richard | Healy, Lambert, Arnason & Hebda | Caracol, Belize: Evidence of Ancient maya Agricultural Terraces | This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo, Distrcit, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated upon a six hectare zone of terraced hillslope and included detailed mapping and excavations. An examination of terraces and associated residential units is made, with discussion of the antiquity of these structures, their distribution, terrace size, form and probable function. The first radiocarbon dates for Caracol , as well as data on terrace soils and pollen, are presented. | 1983 |
| ERC679 | T., J.D.H., J. J.& H. | Arnason, Lambert, Gale, Cal, & Vernon | Decline of Soil Fertility Due to Intensification of Land Use by Shifting agriculturists in Belize, Central America | Intensificationof land use by shifting Maya agriculturalists in Belize, Central America, has led to a deline in soil fertility and crop yields. Examination of eleven nutrients in crop plants and soil, and changes in nutrient levels with the length of the cropping period, indicated that phosphorus was the limiting factor for plant growth. Physical analyses of the soil and visual evidence suggested that erosion is a contributing factor to declining soil quality. A variety of solutions to the infertility problem are discussed. | 1982 |
| ERC680 | Davis. John, Hugh & Timothy | Burton, Bickham, Genoways & McCarthy | Karyotypic Analysis of Five Rodents and a Marsupial from Belize, Central America | 15 May 1987 | |
| ERC681 | Desmond | Holdridge | Toledo: A Tropical Refugee Settlement in British Honduras | 1940 | |
| ERC682 | Patricia | McAnny | Stone-Tool Production and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: The Consumer Perspective from Pulltrouser Swap, Belize | Ongoing controversy over the idetification of mesoamerican centers as the locus for specialized productions of stone tool is addressed by reference to a consumer locality in the eastern Maya Lowlands. Lithic data from Pulltrouser Swamp are used to shed light on the production intensity and scale of a distribution system centered at Colha, Belize. | 1989 |
| ERC683 | Heather & Paul | McKillop & Healy | Coastal Maya Trade | This paper presents some conclusions drawn from the work carried out at coastal sites in Belize. There are several general statements about coastal sites that can be mae which my be of use in guiding future research. All are concerned with the context within which coastal sites are studies and are integral to various assessments of coastal activity through time, including studies of treace. The bulk of theis paper focuses on conditions that affect the stratifgraphy and ecology of coastal sites. | 1989 |
| ERC684 | Thomas & Harry | Hester & Shafer | The Ancient Maya Craft Community at Colha, Belize, and Its External Relationships | Paper is a straightforward attempt to briefly summarize the lithic technology of Colha and to examine the manner in which the lithic commodities from the site were acquired and utilized by Maya consumers outside the Colha settlement area. | April 1989 |
| ERC685 | Thomas, James, Herman, Fred, Helen & Frank | Garber, Smith, Stross, Michel and Asaro | Maya Maritime Trade and Sources of Obsidian at San Juan, Ambergris, Caye | 1989 | |
| ERC686 | Norman & Juliette | Hammond & Gerhardt | Early Maya Architectural Innovation at Cuello, Belize | This article reports the small site of Cuello in Northern Belize, where a continuous stratigraphic sequence of architectural construction, beginning c. 1000 BC and ending c. AD 400, has been excavated. In the modest innovations of the early building at Cuello can be seen some of the origins of Classic maya architecture. | February 1990 |
| ERC687 | O. | Bolland | Systems of Dominion after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labor in the Brtitish West Indies after 1838 | October 1981 | |
| ERC688 | William | Green | The Perils of Comparative History: Belize and the British Sugar Colonies after Slavery | January 1984 | |
| ERC689 | D.J. & J.A. | Williams & Notley | Operation Hurricane Hattie | 1962 | |
| ERC690 | Norman | Hammond | Archaeological Excavations at the Early maya Site of Cuello, Belize, Central America, 1978-1980 | 1978 | |
| ERC691 | Harry & Thomas | Shafter & Hester | Ancient Maya Chert Workshops in Northern Belize, Cental America | 1983 | |
| ERC692 | Vernon | Scarborough | A Preclassic Maya Water System | The Late Preclassic Maya center of Cerros, northern Belize (300 B.C. to A.D. 150) has revealed evidence of a sophisticated water control system. Canals and raised field platforms have been examined inside the community center. An underlying limestone caprock was systematically removed during the quarrying of monument fill to maintain and adequate drainage in the community. The result was a man-made relief or watershed across the entire core site area. The role of present and past microenvironments at Cerros is addressed. | 1983 |
| ERC693 | Norman | Ashcroft | The Domestic Group in Mahogany, British Honduras | A persistent problem in the Caribbean has been the linking of famlt, mating and household pattersn, both to each other and to other factors in the social system. Two issues which have arisen in the source of solving the problem are the defining of the units of analysis and determiing the structure of these units. The paper examins the concept of "household" and to descrobe some possible variables which critically influence its structure. | 1966 |
| ERC694 | Major H.E.H. | Newman | Belize Revisited of What the Sappers sis in British Honduras | 196 | |
| ERC695 | Ione | Marshall | The National Accounts of British Honduras | June 1962 | |
| ERC696 | Geoffrey | Laws | The Survey of the Lubaantun District in British Honduras | 1928 | |
| ERC697 | Norman | Hammond | Preclassic to Postclassic in Northern Belize | 1974 | |
| ERC698 | Norman | Hammond | Early Maya Ceremonial at Cuello, Belize | The formative period of Maya civilization has been the subject of recent attention, both in discussion and in excavation; several projects have been established specifically to investigate the processes that led to the Classic Maya florescence in the first millennium AD. This article summerizes the results of the third and final season of the Cuello Project which took place from January to March, 1980. | November 1980 |
| ERC699 | Norman | Hammond | British Archaeology in Belize, 1976 | March 1977 | |
| ERC700 | S.R.R. | Allsopp | British Honduras The Linquistic Dilemma | 1965 | |
| ERC701 | A. | Anderson | Glimpses of a Lost Civilization | 1952 | |
| ERC702 | Norman | Ashcraft | Educational Planning in a Developing Society - The Case of British Honduras | This study represents an investigation into the problems of coordinating educational methods and goals with the problems and goals of economic developlment policies. Specifically, the issie to be explored involves the type of educational system developing countries 'ought' to adopt. | September 1972 |
| ERC703 | Peter | Ashdown | Antonio Soberanis and the Disturbances in Belize 1934-1937 | 1978 | |
| ERC704 | C. | Cacho | British Honduras A Case of Deviation in Commonwealth Caribbean Decolonization | 1967 | |
| ERC705 | Herbert | Curry | British Honduras: From Public Meeting to Crown Colony | 1956 | |
| ERC706 | C. | Grant | The Civil Service Strike in British Honduras: A Case Study of Politics and The Civil Service | September 1966 | |
| ERC707 | C | Grant | Rural Local Government in Guyana and British Honduras | March 1967 | |
| ERC708 | Richard | Hadel | Black Carib Folk Music | 1976 | |
| ERC709 | John | Andersen | A Second Round Structure from Northern Belize, Central America | The excavation of a large rounf masonry platform at Chan Chen, Belize, central America is described. | 1978 |
| ERC710 | Denis | Malone | Magisterial Problems of Belize | December 1977 | |
| ERC711 | Sybil | Armstrong | Belize (British Honduras) | 1978 | |
| ERC712 | C.W.W.W | Greenidge | British Honduras | December 1942 | |
| ERC | Virginia | Kerns | Daughters Bring In: Ceremonial Social Organization of the Black Carib of Belize | 1977 | |
| ERC714 | Douglas | Taylor | Conversations and Letter from the Black Carib of British Honduras | April 1948 | |
| ERC715 | J. Jefferson & Susan M. | MacKinnon & Kepecs | Prehispanic saltmaking in Belize: New Evidence | The discovery of a number of prehispanic saltmaking sites on the southern coast of Belize by Point Placencia Archaeological Project suggests a concern with local saltmaking during the Late Classic abd perhaps later periods. This paper describes the sites located by our survey and offers an interpretation of the local saltmaking process. It suggests that Placencia salt was inferior in quality to that from Yucatan, and that it might have been consumed by commoners, while elites were able to obtain pure Yucatecan salt. | July 1989 |
| ERC716 | Arlen & Diane | Chase | The Investigation of Classic Period Maya Warfare at Caracol, Belize | 1989 | |
| ERC717 | Robin | Robertson | Fuctional Analysis and Social Process in Ceramics: The Pottery from Cerros, Belize | This research is concerned with dividing and refining the cermaic chronology for the late Preclassics in northern Belize and possibly by comparison, other areas of the Maya Lowlands; as well as, identifying the ways in which the inhabitants of the sire utilized pottery. | May, 1981 |
| ERC718 | Leslie | Snyder | Foreign Media and the Desire to Emigrate from Belize | Among the troubles third world nations face today are two "flow" problems - the floww of foreign culture and values into developing antions vis the mass media, and the flow of population out of these countries and into more developed centers of the North. This articles explores the hypothesis that the first of these processes exacerbates the second. | Winter 1991 |
| ERC713 | Joseph | Palacio | A Rural/Urban Environment for Central American Immigrants in Belize | Paper discusses a case study done among twenty persons mostly housewives in Salvapan, a rural/urban community of Guatemalan and Salvadorann refugee/immigrants in Belize. It describes their biological characteristics, household structure, arrival and setllment, foos and household economy, and their use of health and education facilities. The theoretical framework is the process of adjustment that rural migrants undergo within a unique environment. It therefore has implications within a wide range f possibilities that are available for involuntary migrants. | 30th November, 1985 |
| ERC719 | Graham | Hurford | The Moyne Commission in British Honduras. Public Opinion and the Policies of the Burns Administration 1934-1940. | 1987 | |
| ERC720 | Nancy, Michael, Jason | Moss, Stone, Smith | Fertility among Central American Refugees and Immigrants in Belize | This study describes how international migration, including refugee status, affects both child spacing and awareness of an interest in family planning. Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Belizean women with children under six years of age were interviewed in a survey conducted in 1989 in three settlements in Belize that have a high proportion of refugees and ecomonic immigrants. | 1993 |
| ERC721 | Nancy, Michael, Jason | Moss, Stone, Smith | Child Health Outcomes Among Central American Refugees and Immigrants in Belize | The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of international migration, including refugee status upon child health outcomes. | 1992 |
| ERC722 | David | Pendergast | The Actun Balam Vase | June 1966 | |
| ERC723 | Kevin | Kearns | Belmopan: Perspective on a New Capital | April 1973 | |
| ERC724 | Richard | Wilk | 'It's destroying a Whole generation". Television and Moral Discourse in Belize | This paper explores the ways television has affected the small Caribbean country of Belize during the last ten years. It focuses attention on the way people talk about television in public and provate, on the place of television in moral discourse. It suggests that by providing an objectified "other", foreign television may promote new forms of nationalism. | 1993 |
| ERC725 | Patrick | Cardiff | Income Imputation and Househol Income Inequality in Belize | Paper analyzes income distribution in the 1990-1991 Belize Household Expenditure Survey (HES). | March 1993 |
| ERC726 | M. | Day | Resource use in the tropical karstlands of central Belize | The karst of central Belize was used intensively for some six centurues by Maya farmers, but between the 10th and 19th centuries, followed by the expansion of subsistence and commerical agriculture after 1945. In the 1980's resource use has accelerated as population and other pressures increase. Much Karst remains forested, but there is increasing clearance for agricultural uses, particularly for citrus cultivation and small scale agriculture…Environmental stresses currently fo not exceed the threshold of instability, but the rapidly developing rural economy warrants careful monitoring of resource pressures. | 1993 |
| ERC727 | Jan | Meerman | The Status of Crocodiles in the Eastern Corozal District | Report of a short survey in the dry season of 1991 to establish the status of the Crocodiles in and around the Shipstern Nature Reserve | 1992 |
| ERC728 | Clarence, Debra, Christine, David | Abercrombie, Davidson, Hope, Scott | Status of Morelet's Crocodile Crocodylus Moreleti in Belize | This first part of this paper gives results of an investigation into the current status of Morelet's crocodile in Belize, particularly its distribution and population. The second section attempts to predict how the Belizean populations will fare in the future and concludes with a few recommendations on how they can be managed. | 1980 |
| ERC729 | Gair, Amanda, Norman | Tourtellot, Clarke, Hammond | Mapping La Milpa: a Maya city in northwestern Belize | Report of a project undertaken to build up a holistic picture of an ancient Maya community that appears to have flourished for several centuries, by mapping the pattern of settlement and its relationship to landscape, studying the range of mineral and plant resources available to the inhabitants and by carrying out surface collection and excavations to deterime the nature, extent and persistence of Maya culture there and understand the ancient city in its environmental context. | March 1993 |
| ERC730 | Vernon | Leslie | The Belize River Boat Traffic | September & December 1987 | |
| ERC732 | Leeland | Graham | State Joint Venture Participation in Oil Exploration and Production in Belize | July 1991 | |
| ERC733 | Arlen & Diane | Chase | The Early Classic Period at Carcaol, Belize: Transitions, Complexity, and Methodolofical Issues is Maya Archaeology | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Jaime & Christophe | Awe & Helmke | Alive and Kicking in the #rd to 6th Centuries A.D.: Defining the Early Classic in the Belize River Valley | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Kathryn & James | Brown & Garber | The Role of Public Architecture and Ritual in the Ride of Complexity: An Example from Blackman Eddy, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Lisa & John | LeCount & Blitz | The Actucan Early Classic Maya Project Progress Report on the Second Field Season | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | John & Anabel | Morris & Ford | Early Classic Manifestations At El Pilar and Mountain Cow | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Palma, Lauren, Fred | Buttles, Sullivan, Valdez | Early Classic Manifestations in Northern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Diane & Arlen | Chase | The Early Classic Period at Santa Rita Corozal: Issues of Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Stratification in Northern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Thomas | Guderjan | The Early Classic Period at the Maya Site of Blue Creek, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | K. | Pyburn | Complex Deposits at Chau Hiix | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | A | Goldsmith | Explorations of an Early Classic Community at Chai Hiix | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Keith | Prufer | The Early Classic in Southern Belize: A Regional View from Uxbenka and Ek Xux | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Phillip | Wanyerka | Epigraphic Evidence of Macro-Political Organization in Southern Belize: A View from the Eatly Classic Period | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Francisco | Estrada-Belli | Cival, La Sufricaya and Holmul: The Long History of Maya Political Power and Settlement in the Holmul Region | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Darcy | Wiewall | Indentifying the Late Postclassic-Colonial Transition in Belize: Results of the 2003 Field Season at the Site of Lamanai in Northern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Mazine & Marilyn | Oland & Masson | Late Postclassic-Colonial Period Maya Settlement on the West Shore of Progresso Lagoon | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Scott | Simmons | Investigations in the Church Zone Maya Archaeomentallurgy at Spanish Colonial Lamanai, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Steven | Morandi | Investigating the Spanish Colonial Frontier in the Sibun River Valley | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Jason, Minette, Jennifer, Richard | Yaeger, Church, Dornan, Leventhal | Investigating Historic Households: The 2003 Season of the San Pedro Maya Project | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Andrew | Kinkella | Bottles, Buttons and the BEC: The Historical Record at Yalbac | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Heather | McKillop | Classic Maya Workshops: Ancient Salt Works in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Bretton & Heather | Somers & McKillop | Hidden Landscapes of the Ancient Maya on the South Coast of Belize: Discovering "Invisible" Settlement at Arvin's Landing | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Cassandra & Geoffrey | Bill & Braswell | Life at the Crossroads: New Data from Pusilha, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Patricia, Eleanor, Satoru | McAnany, Harrison-Buck, Murata | Desire and Political Influence the Archaeology of the Sibun River Valley | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Sandra & Christopher | Lopez Varela & Dore | The Construction of Social Space and Production in the Sibun River Valley | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Cynthia, Chelsea, Michael | Robin, Blackmore, Latsch | Household and Community Ritual in a Maya Farming Community: The 2003 Season at the Chan Site, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Lisa | Lucero | Exploring the Role of Ancient Maya Temples at Yalbac, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Carolyn & Jaime | Audet & Awe | The Political Organization of the Belize Valley: Evidence from Baking Pot, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Dori, Ronald, Carolyn, Jaime, M. James | Reents-Budet, Bishop, Audet, Awe, Blackman | Act Locally, Think Internationally: The Pottery of Baking Pot, Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Jon, Timothy, Sheryl, Nicole | Lohse, Beach, Luzzadder-Beach, Little | Poitical Ecology in Upper Northwestern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Fred | Valdez Jr. | Life and Livelihood of the Prehistoric Maya of Northwestern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Richard & Kay | Meadows & Sunahara | In the Shadow of La Lucha: Modeling Ancient Maya Non-Urban Complexity in Northwest Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Shirley | Mock | The Terminal Classic to Postclassic Cermaics from Saktunja, A Coastal Site in Northern Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Jon | Lohse | Preceramic Occupation in Belize | 2005 | |
| ERC733 | Anabel, Melanie, John | Ford, santiag Smith, Morris | Community Integration and Adaptive Management at El Pilar | 2005 | |
| ERC734 | Diane & Arlen | Chase | Thirty Years of Archaeology at Caracol, Belize: Retrospective and Prospective | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Arlen & Diane | Chase | The Domestic Economy of Caracol, Belize: Articulating with the Institutional Economy in an Ancient Maya Urban Setting | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Bernadette, Meaghan, Jason | Cap, Peuramaki-Brown, Yaeger | Shopping for Household Goods at the Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Thomas, Catherine, M. Kathryn | Chapman, Sword, Brown | Late to Terminal Classic Household Production at Xunantunich Group E | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Rachel | Horowitz | Production at the Source: Lithic Extraction and Production at Callar Creel Quarry, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | David & Michael | Hyde & Stowe | A Terraced Community in Northwestern Belize: Landscape Modifications at Medicinal Trail and Their Role in the Socio-Political Dynamics | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Adrian & Aubrey | Chase | Cermaic Standardization and the Domestic Economy of the Ancient Maya: Belize Red Tripod Plates at Caracol, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Lucas, Maureen, Arlen, Diane | Matrindale Johnson, Carpenter, Chase, Chase | Articulating with the Broader Economy: chert Pressure Blade Technology in a Caracol Residental Group | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | James, Elizabeth, Dori | Aimers, Haussner, Farthing | The Ugly Duckling: Insights Into Ancient Maya commerce and Industry from Pottery Petrography | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Heather | Mckillop | Evaluating Ancient Maya salt Production and the Domestic Ecohomy: the Paynes Creel salt Works and Beyond | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Shawn, Maruyam, Gabriel | Morton, Isa, Wrobel | Caves Were the Houses of the earth Lord, Right? Insight Into Domestic Economy of Central Belize from the Cave Context | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Marisol, Sarah, Erik | Cortes-Rincon, Boudreaux, Marinkovich | Raw Material Economy and Technological Organization in the Hinterlands: Dos Honbres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Brett & Gregory | Houk & Zaro | Lithic Production and Domestic Economy in an Ancient Maya Neighborhood At Chan Chich, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Debora, Robyn, Fred | Trein, Dodge, Valdez | Domestic Economy in Northwest Belize: Hun Tun and La Milpa | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Robin & Debra | Robertson & Walker | Trading Places: New Interpretations of the Late Preclassic Port Facility at Cerro Maya | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Anabel | Ford | Ancient Maya Subsistence: The Domestic Economy of the Milpa Cycle and Development of the Maya and Their Forest | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | James | Garber | Doubloons, Dollars, Shillings, and Coppers: Coins and Monetary Units of the English Settlement on the Bay of Honduras | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Jason, Kathryn, Christophe, Marc, Bernadette, Christie, Kokel, Sylvia | Yaeger, Brown, Helmke, Zender, Cap, Rodriguez, Batty | Two Early Classic Elite Burials From Buenavista Del Cayo, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Borislava, David, Lisa | Simova, Mixter, LeCount | The Social Lives of Structures: Ritual Resignification of the Cultural Landscape at Actuncan, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | George & Terry | Micheletti & Powis | Origins of the Block Party: Investigations of Preclassic architecture Over and Under Plaza A At Pacbitun, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | John, Linda, Jaime | Douglas, Brown, Awe | The Final Occupation: The Terminal Classic Evidence from Plaza H, Cahal Pech, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Norbert & Jaime | Stanchly & Awe | Ancient Maya Use of Dog (Canis Lupus Familiaris): Evidence from the Upper Belize River Valley | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Holley, Mark, Barbara, Laura, Marieka, Erin, Nicholas, Shayna | Moyes, Robinson, Voorhies, Kasakowsky, arksey, Ray, Bourgeois, Hernandez | Dreams at Las Cuevas: A Location of High Devotional Expression of the Late Classic Maya | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Amy & Keith | Thompson & Prufer | Airborne Lidar for Detecting Ancient Settlements, and Landscape Modifications at Uxbenka, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | E. Cory, Heather, E. Christian | Sills, McKillop, Wells | Chemical Analysis of Marine Sediment from chan B'I, Paynes Creek salk Work, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Mark D. & Geoffrey E. | Irish & Braswell | Towards an Archaeological Chronology of Southern Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Marieka, Eleanor, Astrid | Brouwer Burg, Harrison-Buck, Runggaldier | Highways, Byways, Circuits and Paths: Modeling Movement Among the Ancient Maya in the Central Belize Watershed | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Eleanor, Mareika, Mark, Chet, Satoru, Brett, Alex, Astrid | Harrison-Beck, Brouwer Burg, Willis, Walker, Murata, Houk, Gantos, Runggaldier | Brones, Mapping, and Excavations in the Middle Belize Valley: Research Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology (BREA) Project | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Jessica | Harrison | Clara Blanca: The Ceramics of Terminal Classic Pilgrimage and Ritual | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Jean & Lisa | Larmon & Lucero | The History of Cara Blanca, Pool 6: Logging at the Mystic Pool | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Emma | Koenig | Indentifying Abandonment Processes Through Terminal Ritual Diposits at Aguacate Uno, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Kelsey, Gregory, Brett, david, Ashley, Edgar | Herdon, Zaro, Houk, Sandrock, Booher, Vasquez | Investigating Urban Form and Kingship: Preliminary Results of the 2014 Chan Chich Archaeological Project | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Lauren & Fred | Sullivan & Valdez | Archaeology in Northwestern Belize: Recent Excavations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Kerry & Helen | Sagebiel & Haines | Never Ending, Still Beginning: A New Examination of the Cermaics of Ka'Kabish, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Thomas & Colleen | Guderjan & Hanratty | Refining the Database: Ongoing Investigations of the Dynamics of Classic Maya Political Integration in Northwestern Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC734 | Laura, Robin, Debra | Kosakowsky, Robertson, Walker | The Ceramics from a Terminal Preclassic Chultun Style Burial at the Site of Blue Creek, Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC735 | Harold | Lopez | Informal Learning and Indentity Formation Among the Garinagu of Western Belize | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Rachel & James | Hall & Waldram | The Q'eqchi Maya Healers of Belize: Rethinking Agenvy in the Era of Globalization | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Myrna | Manzanares | Cultural Change in Gales Point Manatee: Auto-Ethnographic Reflections from a Community Member | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Phylicia | Pelayo | Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage: Addressing Change and Continuity of Bram and Carnaval in Belize | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Filiberto | Penados | Food Security and Maya Land Rights: Crafting Paths of "Development with Identity" | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Christian, Rebecca, Linda, Eric, Paola, Suzanna | wells, Zarger, Whiteford, Koenig, Gonzalez, Pratt | Technology and Tourism on the Placencia Peninsula: Exploring Contect-Sensitive Pathways for Sustainable Wastewater Management | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Eric | Koeing | Baiting Coastal Sustainability: Collaborative Coastal Management, Heritage Tourism, and the Future of Fisheries in Placencia, Belize | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Nicte | Medina | Let's Talk About Spanish: A Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Belize | 2014 | |
| ERC735 | Giovanni | Pinelo | Western Belize, 1916: In the Crossfire of a Counter-Revolution | 2014 | |
| ERC736 | Richard & Mac | Wilk & Chapin | Ethnic Minorities in Belize: Mopan, Kekchi and Garifuna | In the face of persistent and ever-increasing forces of change, these groups have managed to retain their cultural cohesiveness to a substanial degree , however, their status as ethnic minorities placed them in a difficult and often tenuous position in the struggle for economic and political survival. Following the notion that a group's survival ultimately depends on a range of cultural, social, economic and political factors, this report attempts to present the borad contect in which the Kekchi, Mopan and Garifuna currently live. | September 1988 |
| ERC737 | Jason | Yaeger | San Lorenzo: Exploring the Roles of Communities in the Upper Belize River Valley | Paper addresses the importance of the community as a unit of archaeological analysis and posits some possible roles for communities in ancient Maya society. Preliminary results from the San Lorenzo investigations are presented. | 31 May 1995 |
| ERC738 | Vincent & Stephen | Palacio & McCool | Identifying Ecotourists in Belize Through Benefit Segmentation: A Preliminary Analysis | 1997 | |
| ERC739 | Mavis | Campbell | St. George's Cay: Genesis of the British Settlement of Belize - Anglo-Spanish Rivalry | 2003 | |
| ERC740 | Jason & Lisa | Yaeger & LeCount | Social Heterogeneity and Political Integration in a Terminal Classic Maya Community: On-going Research at San Lorenzo, Belize | Paper introduced on-going field work in the upper Belize River valley and present a model of the nature of community organization and integration during the Terminal Classic period | 5 May 1995 |
| ERC741 | Jennfer, Angela & Jason | Braswell, Angela & Yaeger | Community Integration at Terminal Classic Xunantunich, Belize | 4 december 1994 | |
| 742 | E Wyllys & Norman | Andrews & Hammond | Redefinition of the Swasey Phase at Cuello, Belize | 1990 | |
| ERC742 | Michael | Stone | La Politica Cultural de la Identidad Maya en Belice | June 1996 | |
| ERC743 | Tricia | Soberanis | The Effects of Tariff Rates on skill Intensity | This study investigated the effect of tariff rates on the skill intensity within firms and industries using a cross-sectional panel data set at the firm level for 19 developing countries and 4 least-developed countries by applying simple OLS regression estimation. | 31/8/2016 |
| ERC744 | Scott | Simmons | Small Projectile Points and Spanish Colonialism at Tipu, Belize | 1992 | |
| ERC745 | Thomas | King | Folk Management among Caye Caulker Lobster Fisheries: A Sustainable Success? | 29 April, 1996 | |
| ERC746 | Mark | Moberg | Continuity under Colonial Rule: The Alcalde System and the Garifuna in Belize, 1858-1969 | 1992 | |
| ERC747 | Alvin | Edgell | The Role of Belizean Culture in the Development Causality: Is Development a State, or Spate, of Minds? | ||
| ERC748 | Rein | Ploeg | Sociological Themes on Belize An Undergraduate Perspective | March, 1993 | |
| ERC749 | Luz del Carmen | Vallarta Velez | Des cruses que callan y cruces que hablan Identidad y region: Jesuitas y mayas en la frontera Mexico-Belice | September, 1995 | |
| ERC750 | Joel | Wainwright | The Colonial Origins of the State in Southern Belize | 2015 | |
| ERC751 | Arlen & Diane | Chase | The Consolidation of Caracol: Touristic Development of Belize's Premier Archaeological Site | Report of the 1990 field seasonof the Caracol Archaeological Project | 1990 |
| ERC752 | Lauren | Poluha | "Let's Worship Our Land as Garinagu": Sacred Music and the Negotiation of Garifuna Ethnicity | This dissertation explores the ways that Garifuna communities in Belize, Central America use religious belief and sacred music to articulate ethnic identity. | 2015 |
| ERC753 | Jaqueline | Zinn | The Krauskopf Project Premilinary Environmental Scoping | Report of an independent study project done in to assess the environment of the area and obtain background in formation about water quality and liquies and solid waste options in Hopkins Village. | December, 1995 |
| ERC754 | Robert, Emmanuel, Jan, Mary | Goodland, Asibey, Post, Dyson | Tropical Moist Forest Management: The Urgency of Transition to Sustainability | 1990 | |
| ERC755 | M | Crawford | The Anthropological Genetics of the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of Central America in the Caribbean | 1983 | |
| ERC756 | Laurie | Medina | Development Policies and Identity Politics: Class and Collectivity in Belize | Article examines the relation between the construction of collective identities and the emergence of class alliances that shape economic development trajectories. | 1997 |
| ERC757 | Laurie | Medina | Defining Difference, Forging Unity: The Co-construction of Race, Ethnicity and Nation in Belize | Article examines competing nationalists projects which compete to constitute a Belizean nationa and explores how the essentialization of racial, ethnic and national identities facilitates their assimilation of one another. | October 1997 |
| ERC758 | David | Pendergast | The Prehistory of Actun Balam, British Honduras | 1969 | |
| ERC759 | William | Bullard Jr. | Stratigraphic Excavations at San Estevan, Northern British Honduras | 1965 | |
| ERC760 | Thomas & Mary | Gann | Archaeological Investigations in the Corozal District of British Honduras | 1939 | |
| ERC761 | William & Michael | Coe | Excavations at Nohich Ek, Briish Honduras | 1956 | |
| ERC762 | David | Pendergast | An Inscribes Jade Plaque from Altun Ha | April 1969 | |
| ERC763 | David, Murray, George | Pendergast, Bartley, Armelagos | A Maya Tooth Offering from Yakalche, British Honduras | December, 1968 | |
| ERC764 | Don | Rice | The Archaeology of British Honduras: A Review Synthesis | 1974 | |
| ERC765 | Joel | Wainwright | The colonization of the Maya of Southern Belize | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Alicia | Ebbitt McGill | "Language Problems, Village Improvement, and the Dulness of Rural Life": Colonial Education Reports and the Implications of Cultural Education in Belize | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Yasser, Selmer, Carlos | Musa, Tzib, Quiroz | Our History, Our Pride: An Evaluation of the African and Maya History Program at St. Johns College, Belize | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Lydia | Loskot | Communication Practices of the Mopan Maya: A Rhetorical Analysis | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Lyra | Spang | Maya Entrepreneurship, Tourism and the Future of Belize's Chocolate Trail | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Eric S, E. Christian, Sarita L. | Koenig, Wells, Garcia | Reclaiming Development: Community-Based Heritage Conservation and University-Engaged Research in Seine Bight, Belize | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Kristina, Rebecca | Baines, Zarger | Maya Cultural Heritage Exchange in Southern Belize: A Dialogue Among Communities, Archaeologists and Sociocultural Anthropologists | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Andrew | Gordon | Globalization in Belize: Weak and Strong Forces | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Sophie | Haines | An Anthropological Perspective on the Role of Scientific Predictions for Water Resource Decision-Making | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Lilia | Zalasar | Social and Economic Cross-Border Phenomena on the Mexico-Belize Border During the First Hald of the 20th Century | 2016 | |
| ERC765 | Francis | Hymphreys | "A First Class Journal" : The Belize Independent 1888-1946 | 2016 | |
| ERC766 | David | Pendergast | Lamanai, Belice, Durante El Post Clasico | 1985 | |
| ERC767 | David | Pendergast | The Historical Content of Oral Tradition: A Case from Belize | 1988 | |
| ERC768 | M.H., H.J., M.W. | Tobey, Shafer, Rowe | Trace Element Investigations of Mayan Chert from Belize | 1986 | |
| ERC769 | James, Diane, Arlen | Dunlop, Chase, Chase | Photovoltaic Power for Remote Archaeological Research: A Case Study | June 1989 | |
| ERC770 | Norman, John, J.C., Deborah, Thomas, Colleen | Hammond, Rose, Staneko, Muyskens, Addyman, Gleason | Archaeological Investigations at Nohmul Belize, 1986 | September 1987 | |
| ERC771 | Hermann, David | Hemuth, Pendergast | Lamanai Tomb Np-58/1: Analysis of the Skeletal Evidence | October 1987 | |
| ERC772 | James | Garber | Patterns of Jade Consumption and Disposal at Cerros, Northern Belize | 1983 | |
| ERC773 | Norman | Hammond | Excavation and Survey at Nohmul, Belize | 1985 | |
| ERC774 | Heather | McKillop | Coastal Maya Trade: Obsidian Densities at Wild Cane Cay | 1989 | |
| ERC775 | Scott | Fedick | The Economics of Agricultural Land Use and Settlement in the Upper Belize Valley | 1989 | |
| ERC776 | K. Anne | Pyburn | Maya Cuisine: Hearths and the Lowland Economy | 1989 | |
| ERC777 | Diane | Chase | Ganned but Not Forgotten: Late Postclassic Archaeology and Ritual at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize | 1985 | |
| ERC778 | Norman | Hammond | Nohmul, Belize: 1982 Investigations | 1983 | |
| ERC779 | Carl | Beetz | Caracol Thirty Years Later A Preliminary Account of Two Rulers | Spring 1980 | |
| ERC780 | Diane | Chase | Between Earth and Sky: Idols, Images and Postclassic Cosmolgy | 1983 | |
| ERC781 | Elizabeth | Graham | Terminal Classic to Early Historic Period Vessel Forms from Belize | 1987 | |
| ERC782 | Vernon | Sarborough | Resourceful Landscaping: A Maya Lesson | 1985 | |
| ERC783 | Vernon | Scarborough | Late Preclassic Northern Belize: Contect and Interpretation | 1985 | |
| ERC784 | Vernon, Robin | Scarborough, Robertson | Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center | 1986 | |
| ERC785 | Norman, Catherine, Mark, Mark, Logan, Laura, Anne | Hammond, Clark, Horton, Hodges, McNatt, Kosakowsky, Pyburn | Excavation and Survey at Nohmul, Belize, 1983 | 1985 | |
| ERC786 | L.J, Heather | Jackson, McKillop | Maya Trade at Wild Cane Cay, Belize | 1987 | |
| ERC787 | David | Pendergast | Four Maya Pottery Vessels from British Honduras | July 1968 | |
| 788 | Daniel, Thomas, Stephen, Fred | Potter, Hester, Black, Valdez | Relationships Between Early Preclassic and Early Middle Preclassic Phases in Northern Belize: A Comment on "Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads" | 1984 | |
| ERC789 | Norman | Hammond | New Light on the Most Ancient Maya | September 1986 | |
| ERC790 | Thomas | Hester | Preliminary Report of the 1981 Field Season at Colha, Belize | 1981 | |
| ERC791 | Kimmarie | Murphy | Research on Naturally Occuring Antibiotic in Cayo District, Belize | March, 1988 | |
| ERC792 | Elizabeth, David | Graham, Pendergast | Excavations at the Marco Gonzalez Sitem Ambergris Cay, Belize, 1986 | 1989 | |
| ERC793 | Norman, Laura, Anne, John, J.C., Sara, C.M., Mark, Horton, Colleen, Deborah, Thomas | Hammond, Kosakowsky, Pyburn, Rpse, Staneko, Donaghey, Clark, Horton, Gleason, Muyskens, Addyman | The Evolution of an Ancient Maya City: Nohmul | 1988 | |
| ERC794 | Heather | McKillop | Prehistoric Maya Reliance on Marine Resources: Analysis of a Midden from Moho Cay, Belize | 1984 | |
| ERC795 | Mark | Tobey | Trace Element Investigations of Maya Chert from Belize | 1986 | |
| ERC796 | Diane, Arlen | Chase, Chase | A Postclassic Perspective: Excavations at the Maya Site of Santa Rita Corozal, Belize | August 1988 | |
| ERC797 | Diane | Chase | The Late Postclassic Pottery of Santa Rita Corozal, Belize" The Xabalxab Ceramic Complex | 1985 | |
| ERC798 | Raymond | Sidrys | Archaeological Excavations in Northern Belize, Central America | 1983 | |
| ERC799 | Bruce | Ergood | The Belize National Survey | 1989 | |
| ERC800 | Steven, Jan, Thomas | Platt, Meerman, Rainwater | Diversity, Observations, and Conservation of the Herpetofauna of Turneffe, Lighthouse, and Glovers Atolls, Belize | 1999 | |
| ERC801 | Thomas, Scott, Steven | Rainwater, McMurry, Platt | Ectromelia in Morelet's Crocodile from Belize | 1999 | |
| ERC802 | Steven, Thomas | Platt, Rainwater | Distribution Records and Life History Notes for Amphibians and Reptiles in Belize | 1998 | |
| ERC803 | Elisabeth & Odile | Cunin & Hoffman | De la dominacion colonial a la fabricacion de la nacion. Las categoras etnico-raciales en los censos e informes y sus usos politicos en Belice, siglos xix-xx | Text presents an analysis of the processes of enthnic-racial classification and categorization of the population of Belize in the 19th and 20th Centuries, based on demographic censuses and government reports. | 2012 |
| ERC804 | Samuel & Anna | Turvey & Cooper | Amphibians and Reptiles of Monkey Bay National Park, Belize | 1999 | |
| ERC805 | John | Mallory | 'Workshops" and "Specialized Production" in the Production of Maya Chert Tools: A Response to Shafer and Hester | 1986 | |
| ERC806 | Karl | Offen | British Logwood Extraction from the Mosquitia: The Origin of a Myth | February 2000 | |
| ERC807 | Malcolm, Simon, Christopher | Murray, Zisman, Minty | Soil-Plant Relationships and a Revised Vegetation Classification of Turneffe Atoll, Belize | This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the land cover and soils of Turneffe Atoll, Belize. | August 1999 |
| ERC808 | Susan | Davis | Designing Nationalism | 1991 | |
| ERC809 | Richard & Sally | Price | Executing Culture Musee, Museo, Museum | March, 1995 | |
| ERC810 | Norman | Hammond | The Development of Belizean Archaeology | 1983 | |
| ERC811 | Norman | Hammond | The Prehistory of Belize | 1982 | |
| ERC812 | Ismail, Satish, Dorian | Yahya, Verma, Barrow | Technical Counterparting in International Development Co-operation: Proposing A Conceptual Model | This paper attempts to conceptualize a model for IDC counterparting in terms of the (a) major causes of ineffective counterparting (b) critical roles of responsibilities of and desirable relationships between counterparts and (c) a framework that would facilitate the counterparting process. | October 1995 |
| ERC813 | Joyce | Marcus | Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads | 1983 | |
| ERC814 | David & Jeanne | Brown & Wolfe | Adjusting Planning Frameworks to Meet Changing Needs to Post Colonial Countries: The Examples of Belize. | 1997 | |
| ERC815 | Kenneth & David | Chomitz & Gray | Roads, Land Use, and Deforestation: A Spatial Model Applied to Belize | Rural roads promote economic development, but they also facilitate deforestation. To Explore this tradeoff, this article develops a spatially explicit model of land use and estimates probabilities of alternative land used as a function of land characteristics and distance to market using a multinominal logit specification of this model which was applied to data for southern Belize. | |
| ERC816 | Assad | Shoman | The Situation of Land Tenancy and Use as it Relates to Small Farmers in Belize | Paper seeks to systemize the available information relating to a historical summary of tenancy and use of land in Belize, including major changes of government policy and actions by farmers; a summer of laws relating to the distribution and tenancy of land, including that relating to th reservations of lands; systems in place for the granting of titles to lands, including surveys ; a summar of land conflicts; agrarian debt and recent studies relating to land use and sustainable agriculture. | March, 1997 |
| ERC817 | Douglas | Taylor | The Black Carib of British Honduras | 1951 | |
| ERC818 | Bruce | Ergood | Belize: An Introduction | Review essay covers three sociopolitical monographsm two collections on Belizean issues, and two novels noted. All were written by Belizeans except for two monographs by U.S. authors. | |
| ERC819 | Sheila & Emory | Cominsky & Whipple | Ethnicity and Mating Patterns in Punta Gorda, Belize | Chapter analyzes the degree to which ethnicity is salient in social relations, especially mating and marital patterns. | 1984 |
| ERC820 | Pamela | Munro | The Garifuna Gender System | 1998 | |
| ERC821 | Patricia | McAnany | Stone-Tool Production and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: The Consumer Perspective from Pulltrouser Swamp, Belize | 1989 | |
| ERC822 | Eve | Danziger | Cross-cultural studies in language and thought: is there a metalanguage | 2001 | |
| ERC823 | Robert, Robert, James Damon, Steven | Munroe, Hulefeld, Rodgers, Tomeo, Yamazaki | Aggression Among Children in Four Cultures | February 2000 | |
| ERC824 | Brian | Murfin | The Belizean Bridge Activity | 2001 | |
| ERC825 | Laurie | Medina | History, Culture, and place-making: 'native' status and maya identity in belize | 1999 | |
| ERC826 | Riva | Berleant-Schiller | Women, Work, and Gender in the Caribbean | 1999 | |
| ERC827 | Curtis | Berkey | Mayas of Belize and Conservation The Need to Protect Maya Lands in Toledo District | August, 1994 | |
| ERC828 | Jack | Eaton | Tools of Ancient Maya Builders | 1991 | |
| ERC829 | Maynard | Cliff | Domestic Architecture and Origins of Complex Society at Cerros | ||
| ERC830 | Norman, Amanda, Francisco | Hammond, Clarke, Estrada Belli | Middle Preclassic Maya Buildings and Burials at Cuello, Belize | 1992 | |
| ERC831 | T. | Culbert | The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization | 1989 | |
| ERC832 | Daniel | Finamore | Pirates of the Barcadares | November 2002 | |
| ERC833 | Nigel | Bolland | United States Cultural Influences on Belize: Television and Education As "Vehicles of Import" | September & December 1987 | |
| ERC834 | James | Garber | The Cultural Context of Jade Artifacts from the Maya Site of Cerros, Belize | ||
| ERC835 | J | Everitt | The Tourch is Passed: Neocolonialism in Belize | 1987 | |
| ERC836 | Anabel | Ford | An Acient Maya Domestic Economy: An Examination of Settlement in the Upper Belize River Area | 1989 | |
| ERC837 | Anabel | Ford | Domestic Production and Consumption in Complex Societies: Examination of Marginalized Maya Settlement in the Upper Belize River Area | Brief summary on the 1990 & 1991 Seasons of the Intensive Excavations | |
| ERC838 | D. Clark | Wernecke | Interpretations of Architecture at El Pilar: Results of the 1993 Season | 1993 | |
| ERC839 | D. Clark | Wernecke | The BRASS/El Pilar 1994 Field Season: A Collaborative Experiment | June 1994 | |
| ERC840 | Joel & Joshua | Wainwright & Lund | Miguel Angel Asturias and the Aporia of Postcolonial Geography | 2008 | |
| ERC841 | Gregory & James | Smith & Azueta | Survey if Sea Turtle Nesting Sites on Amergris Cay, Belize | ||
| ERC842 | Gregory | Smith | Partial Survey of Sea Turtle Nesting Sites in Belize | 1989 | |
| ERC843 | Kendall | Decker | Orthography Development for Creole Languages | The premise of this research is that orthography development cannot, and does not need to, produced a linguistically confined product; speech communicites can tolerate some variability in the way they write their language. As an example of this dissertation describes the development of an ortograhy for a Creole-Speaking community. | 14th April 1955 |
| ERC844 | Brett | Houk | Twenty-Five (Plus) Years of Site-Planning Studies | Paper examines site planning as originally defined byWnedy Ashmore and look closely at subsequent fixation other authors have had on cosmograms. It includes examples of how researchers in Belize have applied Ashmore's model, and consider the critiques and criticisms of the approach offered by Smith before closing with ezamples of the three successfil tupes of site-planning anlysis. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Arlent and Diane | Chase | Ancient Maya Architecture and Spatial Layouts: Contextualizing Caana at Caracol, Belize. | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | George, Kaitlin, Terry | Micheletti, Crow, Powis | Q and A: Exposing El Quemado's Architectural Configuration in Plaza A at Pacbitun, Belize. | Report on the 2016 field season aimed at further exposing the platform found beneeather the epicentral plaza. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Adrian | Chase | Residential Inequality Among the Ancient Maya: Operationalizing Household Architectural Volume at Caracol, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Bernadette, Jason, M. Kathryn | Cap, Yaeger, Brown | The Plazas of Buenavista Del Cayo: History, Economy, and Politics | Paper compares the findings from the three main plazas of Buenavista del Cayo, Belize, to illustrate how plazas shaped ancient Maya society. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | M. Kathryn, Whitney, Zoe, Victoria, Alessandra | Brown, Lytle, Rawski, Ingalls, Villareal | Understanding the Preclassic Ritual Landscape in The Mopan Valley: A View from Early Xunantunich | Preliminary interpretations related to early Maya ritual practices at the site and hose these practices were shaped through time and place. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | David | Mixter | Poltitical Change Expressed in Public Architecture: The Terminal Classoc Maya Civiv Complex at Actuncan, Belize | Paper compares Group 4 to Actucan's Late Classic noble palace using three criteria: access; each space's potential to be used for state performance; and daily use. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Sherman, James, Jaime | Horn III, Gaber, Awe | And Now For Something Completely Different: Architectural Variability As a Signature of Dynamic Social Relations at Middle Preclassic Cahal Pech | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Anabel, Sherman | Ford, Horn III | El Pilar Monuments Retrospective & Prospective: Re-Discoering El Pilar | Summary of research and development carried out to date on the results that contribute to the understanding of the past and present of the El Pilar Archaeolofical Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Erin | Benson | In the Shadlow of Yalbac: Hinterland Settlement Between Yalbac and the Cara Blanca Pools | Paperpresents the results of salvage excavations and discusses the settlements in terms of the broader religious and political landscape | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Debora, Laure, Fred | Trein, Sullivan, Valdez | Sustained Research: Theory, Method and Discoveries of the PFBAP of NW Belize | Summary of the cumulative results of the project. Paper looks at the initial model of what the PFBAP, was a regional endeavour was intended to address and gain with accumulated data and analyses; a general background/history, theoretical interests, proposed mthods, and some discoveries/findings are discussed, and, summary connections are made between early systems of research and how come remain the same, while others have been significatly modified with advancing technologies. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Helen, Kerry, Claude | Haines, Sagebiel, Belanger | Is and Isn't Produce Each Other: An Unusual Architectural Amalgamation at Ka.Kabish | Paper provides a preliminary summary of structire FA-8 discussing its unusual remodeling and associated architectural features and material culture | 2017 |
| ERC844 | David, Torin | Hyde, Power | A Non-Elite Site Ranking System: Contextual Analysis of Architecture at the Medicinal Trial Community | Purpose of this paper is to present a ranking sustem that will prvide insight into the relationship that exists between residential architecture and social status for non-elites settlements. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Marisol, Erik, Spencer, Cady | Cortes-Rincon, Marinkovih Mitchell, Rutherford | Symbolism, Space, and Political Economies in the Hinterlands: New Insights from N950 | Paper exmines the dynamics of the sociopolitical and ritualistic developmental processes which charaterize the nature and function of the cultural landscape of the N950 site and its surrounding community through an extensive study of symbolism, architecture and space use patters. | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Rissa | Trachman | A View Towards the Horizon: Ongoing Investigations at the Site of Dos Hombres | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Cynthia, Laura, Kacey, Zachary, Melissa | Robin, Kosalowsky, Gauer, Nissen, Jones | Urban Design, Its Antecendents and Successors, At Aventura: Results of the 2015 Field Season | Paper examines the development and design of Aventura's urban core through te presentation of the results of the inaugural 2015 season | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Damien, Timothy | Marken, Murtha | Maya Cities, People and Place: Comparative Perspectives from El Peru and Tikal | Paper offers a different perspective on the design and planning of Maya cities, be emphasizing the role of household, regions, and ecology to understanding Classic Maya Urbanism, or simply, a coupled natural and human study of Maya cities. | 2017 |
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| ERC844 | Terry, Jon, Sheldon, George, Christophe | Powis, Spenard, Skaggs, Micheletti, Helmke | An Ancient Maya City Living on the Edge: The Culture History of Pacbitun, Belize | This paper is a comprehensive overview of nearly four decafes of archaeological investigations at Maya cener of Pacbitun | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Jaime, Claire, Carolyn, Kirsten | Awe, Ebert, Freiwald Green | The Dead Do Tell Tales: Unravelling the Case of Cahal Pech's Jane or John Doe | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Christophe, Julie, Jaime, Sara, Amber | Helmke, Hoggarth, Awe, Bednar, Johnson | Some Initial Comments on the KomKom Vase Discovered at Baking Pot, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Rafael, Jaime | Guerra, Awe | Recent Investigations at the Major Center of Lower Dover in The Belize River Valley | Paper presents five years of investigations at Lowe Dover, where reserch has been focused on constructing a site chronology and understanding its role within the socio-political landscape of the Classic Period AD 500-900 | 2017 |
| ERC844 | Lisa, Jean, Aimee | Lucero, Larmon, Carbaugh | The Ancient Maya Ceremonial Circuit of Cara Blanca, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Ashley, Brett, Valorie, Brooke, Anna | Booher, Houl, Aquino, Bonorden, Novotny | Drones, Bones and Stones: The 2016 Season of the Chan Chich Archaeological Survey Team | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | E. Cory | Sills | Extent of Brone Enrichment for Salt Production at the Ancient Maya Placencia Lagoon Salt Works, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Mckillop, Thomas, Lillian | McKillop, Landrum | Diving Deeper in Puta Ycacos Lagoon at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Valrie, Heather, E. Cory, Rachel | Feathers, McKillop, Stills, Watson | Excavating the Underwater Shell Deposit at An Ancient Maya Salt Work in Belize: The Eleanor Beatty Site | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Meaghan, Shawn, Tawny, Lisa | Peuramaki-Brown, Morton, Tibbits, Green | Phase I Reconnaisance (2014-2015) At Alabama: A Summary of Scrap Investigations in East- Central Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Gabriel, Shawn, Amy, Jack, Christopher | Wrobel, Morton, Michael, Biggs, Andres | The Current State of Research on Ancient Maya Rockshelter Use in Central Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Keith, Clayton, Asia, Timothy, Douglas | Prufer, Meredith, Alsgaard, Dennehy, Kennett | The Paleoindian Chronology of Tzib Te Yux Rockshelter in The Rio Blanco Valley of Southern Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Holley, Laura, Erin, Jaime | Moyes, Kosakowsky, Ray, Awe | The Chronology of Ancient Maya Cave Use in Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Jon | Spenard | A jaunt Through the Constructed Wilderness: The Nohoch Tunich Ritual Bedrock Outcrop and Late Classic Period Urbanism at Pacbitun, Cayo District, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | Eleanor, Jessica, Satoru, Adam | Harrison-Buck, Craig, Murata, Kaeding | From Ancient Maya to Kriol Culture: Investigating the Deep History of the Eastern Belize Watershed | 2017 | |
| ERC844 | James, Kay, Scott, Elizabeth | Aimers, McCarron, Simmons, Graham | The Pottery of Marco Gonzalez, Belize | 2017 | |
| ERC2 | Heath, James, Lauren | Bentley, Garber, Springs | Charmed Objects and African Influence in The Cemetery At St. George's Caye, Belize | 2017 | |
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| ERC845 | Building People Movement | This paper makes on major proposition and introduced one hypothesis for consideration: That for women to achieve parity in leadership positions at the highest level of elected and appointed office in Belize, that is , as the Prime Minister, Ministers of Government and members of the House of Representatives, and for them to effect meaningful change and make their make on the grouth and development of Belize, the personal stories and legacies of the political journey og their predecessors…must be told and shared and even publiccized, so other women can learn from it, can emulate it, and as important, be inspired and motiveated by it to calibrate their own paths. | February 2018 | ||
| ERC846 | Arlen F. and Diane Z. | Chase | Sampling and Timeframes: Contextualizing The Protoclassoc and Early Classoc Periods at Caracol, Belize | Paper examins the history of and use of the term Protoclassoc in Maya archaeology; it them uses data from Caracol, Belize to assess the relevance of the term both to Maya Studies and to interpretations of ancient Maya society. | 2018 |
| ERC846 | George J., Kaitlin E, Terry G. | Micheletti, Crow, Powis | Expanding Sub-Plaza Explorations of Middle Preclassic Architecture at the Site of Pacbitun, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Borislava, E. Christian, David, Lisa | Simova, Wells, Mixter, LeCount | Exploring Changes in Activities in Maya E-Groups: Archaeological and Geochemical Analysis of E-Group Plaster at Actucan, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Bernadette, Jason, M. Kathryn | Cap, Yaeger, Brown | Fidelity Tests of Lidar data for the Detection of Ancient Maya Settlement in the Upper Belize River Valley, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Sherman, Anabel | Horn III, Ford | Classic Maya Household Ceramic Belongings: An Untapped Resource for Understanding Daily Life | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Claire, Jaime | Ebert, Awe | Reconstructing Preclassic Maya Household Economies in the Belize River Valley | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | W. James, Jaime, M. Kathryn, James F. | Stemp, Awe, Brown, Garber | Rock Bottom: Maya Lithic Technology in the Early Terminal to Late Middle Preclassic Periods at Cahal Pech and Blackman Eddy, Cayo District, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Norbert, Chrissina | Stanchly, Burke | Preclassic Animal Resource Use and the Origins of Ancient maya Lifeways and Society: Contrunitions from Belize Zooarchaeology | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Chrissina, Jatie, Gavin, Jaime | Burke, Tappan, wisner, Awe | Ritual Use of animals in Ancient Maya Mortuary Contexts: Results of Faunal Analysis from the Structure A9 Tomb at Xunantunich | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Kerry, Helen | Sagebiel, Haines | "Fools Make Feasts, and Wise Men Eat Them": Interpreting Problematic "Smash-and-Trash" Deposits a Ka'Kabish, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | James, Natalie, Prasanna | Fitzsimmons, Figueroa, Vankina | The Early-Late Classic Transition at Cuello: Results from the 2017 Season of the Classic Cuello Archaeologival Project | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Kaura, Kerry, Duncan | Kosakowsky, Sagebiel, Pring | Long Ago But Not Forgotten: The Early Preclassic Swasey Ceramic Sphere of Northern Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Tomas, Brett, Claire | Cervera, Houk, Novotny | The Development of Terminal Preclassic and Early Classic Royal Architecture at Chan Chich, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Fred | Valdez Jr. | Early Maya Civilization in the Three Rivers Region | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Adrian, Diane, arlen | Chase | Situating Preclassic Interments and Fire-Pits at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Max, Diane, Arlen | Seidita, Chase | Chetumal's Dragonglass: Postclassic Obsidian Production and Exchange at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Leah, M. Kathryn, Neil | McCurdy, Brown, Dixon | Tagged Walls: The Discovery of Ancient Maya Graffiti at El Castillo, Xunantunich | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Sheldon, Terry | Skaggs, Powls | Two Unusual Finds from Courtyard 3, Pacbitun, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Jon, Michael, George, Terry | Spenard, Mirro, Micheletti, Powis | From Photogs to Models: Digital Arhcaeology of Pre-Hispanic Pacbitun, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Lisa, Jean, Aimee | Lucero, Larmon, Carbaugh | Setting the Stage in Central Belize: 30,000 Years of Tropical Climate, Landscape Transformation, and Human Interaction | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Jean, Aimee | Larmon, Carbaugh | Ceremonial Circuit(s) at Cara Blanca, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Keith | Prufer | Preceramic Cultural History in Southern Belize and It's Environmental Context | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Erin, Holley, Linda | Ray, Moyes, Howie | Plastered: Cave Constructions at Las Cuevas | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Heather | Mckillop | Contingent Milti-Crafting, Surplus Household Pruduction, and The Maya Quest for Salt | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Valerie, Heather | Feathers, Mckillop | Assessment of the Shell Midden at the Eleanor Betty salt Work, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Andrew, Christian, Geoffrey | Somerville, Prager, Braswell | King K'Ak [U Ti'?] Chan K'Awil of Pusilha: An Ancient Maya King | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Meaghan, Shawn, Christina | Peuramaki-Brown, Morton, Oliveira | "Some Lessons Can't be Taught, They Simply Have to Be Learned": Experiences from Three Seasons of Investigations at Alabama, Stann Creek District, Belize | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Eleanor, Mark, Satoru, Jessica | Harrison-Buck, Willis, Murata, Craig | Investigating Ancient Maya Settlement, Wetland Features, and Preceramic Occupation Around Crooked Tree, Belize: Excavations and Aerial Mapping with Drones | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Cynthia, Laura, Kavey, Zachary | Robin, Kosakowsky, Grauer, Nissen | Community Archaeology at Aventura: Archaeology About Communities and Archaeology for Communities, Results of the 2016 Field Season | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | Scott, Tracie, James, W. James | Simmons, Mayfield, Aimers, Stemp | The Maya of Ambergris Caye and Their Neighbors | 2018 | |
| ERC846 | James, Jacob, Lauren | Garber, Bently, Springs | Napoleonic Shakos and the Order of the Garter: West India Regiments on St. George's Caye | 2018 | |
| ERC847 | Harry | Dominguez Barbosa | Identidades Suburbanas En El Caribe Anglofono: El Belize y Del Oeste de Llamados Shettos Del Sur De La Ciudad De Belize Y Dels Oeste De Kingston | February 2018 | |
| ERC848 | Harry, Maria | Dominguez Barbosa, Maria de la Paz Chaves Vargas | History and Orality Among the Rural Creole of Belize: Belief Systems and Bakabush Celebrations | 2017 | |
| ERC849 | Arlen, Diane | Chase | Central Belize and The Development of Maya Archaeology: A Critical Assessment | Paper reviews the changes that have occurred in Maya archaeology in the last century, specifically focusing on the practice and goals of archaeology; it then positions archaeology in Belize relative to these transitions with specific focus on research carried out in the central part of the country. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Jason, M. Kathryn | Yaeger, Brown | Political Landscapes of the Upper Belize River Valley | Paper briefly sketches the valley's political landscape; discusses patters of shifting political sovereignty; examines the influence of outside kingdoms like Caracol and Naranjo in the valley's politics; and dicusses the roles of the hinterland communities and minor centres in those processes. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Christophe | Helmke | Reading Between the Lines: The Epigraphy of Central Belize | Paper builds on the foundations set by earlier studies and presents some of the more recent epigraphic finds made in Central Belize, within a larger historical vantage of the area. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Lisa, Theresa | LeCount, Heindel | Land Tenure Systems at Actuncan, Belize: The Embeddedness of Property, People and Place | Paper presents evidence for the presence of land tenure rights in the form of Common Property Regimes at Actuncan, Belize. This interpretations is based on the development of settlement and land usage patterns in the urban core of the site reconstructed through excavation and remote sensing programs. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Jaime, Christophe, Diane, Douglas | Awe, Helmke, Slocum, Tilden | Let's Talk of Graves, Eccentrics, and Epitaphs: The Socio-Poltiical Implications of Recent Discoveries on Structure A9 at Xunantunich, Belize | 2019 | |
| ERC849 | Claire, Julie, Jaime | Ebert, Hoggarth, Awe | The Climatic Context for the Formation and Decline of Maya Societies in the Belize River Valley | Paper reviews paleoclimate proxy data from the Maya lowlands to provde a framework for understanding the human environment dymanics that influenced the growth and decline of ancient Maya societies across the Belize River Valley. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Carolyn, Anna, Kristen | Freiwald, Novotny, Green Mink | Mobility Among the Maya of The Belize Valley | Paper presents an isotopic analysis of 52 samples from 44 individuals buried in the Cahal Pech ceremonial center and residential groups of Zubin, Zotz, Zopilote and Tolok. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Adrian | Chase | Water Mangement Among the Ancient Maya: Degrees of Latitude | Using data from Caracol, Belize this article presents a new framework for understanding the "degrees of latitude" inw ater management among the ancient Maya. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Bernadette | Cap | A Classic Maya Marketplace at Xunantunich, Belize | Paper presents an overview of the Xunantunich marketplace that was in operation in the Mopan River Valley, belize from the Late to Terminal Classic periods (AD600-890) | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Whitney, M. Kathryn, Rachel, Carolyn | Lytle, Brown, Horowitz, Freiwald | Late Classic Burials and Eccentric Caches from Structure D-6 at Xunantunich | paper discusses new findings and presents preliminary interpretations from the recent investigations by the Mopan Valley Preclassic Project which uncovered several important crypt burials and eccentric lithic caches withing the eastern pyramidal shrine. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | James, Jaime, Lisa | Aimers, Awe, Lecount | A Contextual Analysis of Terminal Classic Vessels from Cahal Pech, Belize | Report on a collection of complete Terminal Classic vessels from primary contexts at Cahal Pech, Belize presented in relation to their burial context. | 2019 |
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| ERC849 | Sherman, Anabel, Paulino | Horn, Ford, Morales | Lasers, Lasers, Everywhere - And All the Trees Did Shrink: Reliable Methods and Results from LIDAR-Guided Survey at El Pilar | Paper describes the results of lidar-guided survey of El Pilar along with the protocol the project developed to systemize data collection and increase the efficiency of survey. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Terry, George, Sheldon | Powis, Micheletti, Skaggs | Ongoing Investigations of Preclassic Ceremonial Architecture in Plaza A At Pacbitun, Belize | 2019 | |
| ERC849 | Sheldon, Terry | Skaggs, Powis | A Comparative Analysis of Epicenter Burials at Pacbitun, Belize | Update of the tables of burial types and artifacts found with the burials excavated at Pacbitun. Two burials stand out due to patterns consistent with Caracal than the Belize Valley burial patterns. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Jean, Jesann, Amy | Larmon, Gonzalez Cruz, Copper | Integrating the "Built" and "Unbuilt" Spaces of Cara Blanca | paper presents results of the season's excavations, providing insight into the Terminal Classic use of the Cara Blanca space. | |
| ERC849 | Lisa, Jean, Thomas | Lucero, Larmon, Franklin | Exploring the Ancient Maya Landscape at Cara Blanca and Beyond | Paper presents the findings from the first major efforts to explore beyond the pilgrimage destination of Cara Blanca area with the goal of obtaining a better understanding of how the Maya interacted with the regional landscape over the milennia. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Shawn, Christopher, Gabriel | Morton, Andres, Wrobel | The Centre on the Edge: Polity Development On The Frontier of The Belize River Vallye | Paper focuses on the development of, and interaction between, various population centres in the Eastern Maya Lowlands through the lends of Tipan Chen Uitz, the largest currently known ancient Maya site in the research area. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Eleanor, Sara, Adam, Lori | Harrison-Buck, Clark-Vivier, Kaeding, Philips | Public Archaeology in Belize: Cultural Sustainability and the Deep History of the Lower Belize River Watershed | Presentation of the ongoing work of the BEA project performed in the lower Belize River Watershed, specifically in the Area around Crooked Tree. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Cynthia, Kacey, Zachary, Laura, Kat | Robin, Grauer, Nissen, Kosakowsky, Fitzgerald | Aventura in a Northern Belize Context: Challenging Traditional Narratives of Ancient Maya Civilization Through the Results of the 2017 Field Season | Paper draws upon the results of the 2017 field research at Aventura to illustrate how Aventura research challenges traditional narratives about ancient Maya civilization. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | David, Stanley, Fred | Hyde, Walling, Valdez | Complexity and Function Among Hinterland Communities of Northwestern Belize | Paper posits social systems reconstructed for the prehistoric rural Maya; discusses relationships between communities of varying sizes and complexities as based on data and functional concerns of polity survival(s); and, defines issues of production, identity and equality where possible. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Sarah, Linda | Jackson, Brown | Rethinking Resources at Say Kah, Belize | Paper presents highlights of the past five seasons of research at the Classic Maya site of Say Kah, Belize. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Gertrude, Claire, Brett | Kilgore, Novotny, Houk | Household Archaeology, The Late Classic Occupation, and The Terminal Classic Abandonment at Courtyard D-4 Chan Chich, Belize | 2019 | |
| ERC849 | Meaghan, Shawn | Peuramaki-Brown, Morton | Archaeological Reconnaisance at The Pearce Sites of the Cockscomb Basin, Stann Creek District | Paper presents the history of archaeological investigations at the Pearce Sites, reports on the 2016 reconnaisance trip and discusses duture SCRAP research plans for the site and how they fit in with current research at Alabama | 2019 |
| ERC849 | E. Cory | Sils | The Organization of Classic Period Salt Production at The Placencia Lagoon Salt Works | Report of an extention of previous research by Dr. Jeff Mckinnon and the Point Placencia Archaeological Project which seeks to evaluate the organization of salt production to determin whther the salt works are residences, workshops or multigrafting sites. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Mario, Luke, Geoffrey | Borrero, Stroth, Braswell | Discoveries and Advances in the Archaeology of Nim Li Punit, Belize: Results and Methods of the 2018 Field Season | Paper presents the results of the 2018 field season at Nim Li Punit which excavated and consolidated two platforms and discusses the innovative ways photgrammetry was used to document the contexts and artifacts excavated. | 2019 |
| ERC849 | Heather, Robin | McKillop, Robertson | Ich'Ak'Tun: An Early Maritime Shell Midden Site on the South Coast of Belize | Paper describes the excavation at Ich'ak'tun, the results of artifact and shall analyses, and the implications for early coastal settlement. | 2019 |