Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Toward a Unified Concept of the Temperate Climate
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Toward a Unified Ecology
Author: Timothy F. H. AllenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538464
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture
Author: Jiat-Hwee ChangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317495683
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies, medical theories and sanitary practices, and were manifested in colonial building types such as military barracks, hospitals and housing. It also explores the various ways these colonial knowledge and practices shaped post-war techno scientific research and education in climatic design and modern tropical architecture. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarships on postcolonial studies, science studies, and environmental history, Jiat-Hwee Chang argues that tropical architecture was inextricably entangled with the socio-cultural constructions of tropical nature, and the politics of colonial governance and postcolonial development in the British colonial and post-colonial networks. By bringing to light new historical materials through formidable research and tracing the history of tropical architecture beyond what is widely considered today as its "founding moment" in the mid-twentieth century, this important and original book revises our understanding of colonial built environment. It also provides a new historical framework that significantly bears upon contemporary concerns with climatic design and sustainable architecture. This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations. Its in-depth discussion and path breaking insights will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners.
Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather
Author: Dr. Stephen H. SchneiderPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199765324
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
This three-volume A-to-Z compendium consists of over 300 entries written by a team of leading international scholars and researchers working in the field. Authoritative and up-to-date, the encyclopedia covers the processes that produce our weather, important scientific concepts, the history of ideas underlying the atmospheric sciences, biographical accounts of those who have made significant contributions to climatology and meteorology and particular weather events, from extreme tropical cyclones and tornadoes to local winds.
Human Dimensions of Weather Modification
Author: W. R. Derrick SewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Papers prepared in connection with a Symposium on the Economic and Social Aspects of Weather Modification ... held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado from July 1-3, 1965.
Research Paper
Author: Climatology and the World's Climates
Author: George Richard RumneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic zones
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Investigating the Earth
Author: Earth Science Curriculum ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description