Author: Carol Ann GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portuguese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Geography, Perception, and Preservation of Portuguese-American Landscapes in California
Author: Carol Ann GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portuguese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Geographical Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geographical abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Subject index to various sections of Geo abstracts.
Preservation and the New Data Landscape
Author: Erica AvramiPublisher: Issues in Preservation Policy
ISBN: 9781941332481
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book explores how enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can aid in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings, and planning sustainable growth. For preservation to play a dynamic and inclusive role, policy must evolve beyond designation and regulation and use evidence-based research.
Universal Geography Formed Into a New and Entire System
Author: John PayneThe New Nature of Maps
Author: J. B. HarleyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Black Rock
Author: Peter GoinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780984101405
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In a brilliant duet, a photographer and geographer explore this desert realm the size of Delaware, a desolate landscape that nonetheless teems with life-forms that have endured for millennia.
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
Author: William CrononPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242528
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.
Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence CouncilPublisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646794973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process
Author: Simon BellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135820066
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Providing a fresh approach to the theory of design, Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can develop. The book brings together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines including psychologists, philosophers, geologists, ecologists, cultural geographers, foresters, urban planners and landscape architects and synthesizes all these together. Since many landscape and environmental problems require multi-disciplinary approaches for their solution, this book demonstrates how the best integration can be achieved. Highly illustrated, it contains examples from North America, Canada, Europe and Australasia. Glossary, references and further reading provide the reader with guidance and back-up resources.