Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Soil and Water Use in the Soviet Union
Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
On Russian Soil
Author: Mieka ErleyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501755706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Blending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, Mieka Erley offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. As Erley shows in On Russian Soil, the earth has inspired utopian dreams, reactionary ideologies, social theories, and durable myths about the relationship between nation and nature. In this period of modernization, soil was understood as the collective body of the nation, sitting at the crux of all economic and social problems. The "soil question" was debated by nationalists and radical materialists, Slavophiles and Westernizers, poets and scientists. On Russian Soil highlights a selection of key myths at the intersection of cultural and material history that show how soil served as a natural, national, and symbolic resource from Fedor Dostoevsky's native soil movement to Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign at the Soviet periphery in the 1960s. Providing an original contribution to ecocriticism and environmental humanities, Erley expands our understanding of how cultural processes write nature and how nature inspires culture. On Russian Soil brings Slavic studies into new conversations in the environmental humanities, generating fresh interpretations of literary and cultural movements and innovative readings of major writers.
Eurasian Environments
Author: Nicholas BreyfoglePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.
Water Reuse
Author: Water Resources Scientific Information CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water reuse
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Life of Permafrost
Author: Pey-Yi ChuPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487501935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Groundwater 2000
Author: Poul L. BjergPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000151026
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
These proceedings, with cd-rom, present a comprehensive overview of advances in groundwater research. The five main topics covered are: aquifers and contaminant distribution; groundwater quality; natural attenuation; remediation technologies and groundwater protection. Groundwater 2000 is a useful resource to both scientists and to those working in the field.
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Soil Salinity and Irrigation in the Soviet Union
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description