Author: David Thomas AnstedPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Geology, Introductory, Descriptive, & Practical
Author: David Thomas AnstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Soils in Cornwall III
Author: S. J. StainesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780708402160
Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Integrated Soil and Sediment Research: A Basis for Proper Protection
Author: Herman J.P. EijsackersPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401120080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade. The complexity of the soil and sediment systems and its processes cannot be tackled properly unless scientists from different disciplines work together. With this in mind, a number of multidisciplinary soil research programmes have been started in various European countries. They involve different disciplinary approaches and they aim at different fields of application: agriculture, land use and town and country planning, drinking water supply, nature management. The results that are now appearing need to be integrated in a scientifically sound and useful way. The first European Conference on Integrated Research for Soil and Sediment Protection and Remediation was intended to foster this. The volume contains the edited and selected proceedings of this Conference.
Applied Population Biology
Author: S.K. JainPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0585329117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An increasing variety of biological problems involving resource management, conservation and environmental quality have been dealt with using the principles of population biology (defined to include population dynamics, genetics and certain aspects of community ecology). There appears to be a mixed record of successes and failures and almost no critical synthesis or reviews that have attempted to discuss the reasons and ways in which population biology, with its remarkable theoretical as well as experimental advances, could find more useful application in agriculture, forestry, fishery, medicine and resource and environmental management. This book provides examples of state-of-the-art applications by a distinguished group of researchers in several fields. The diversity of topics richly illustrates the scientific and economic breadth of their discussions as well as epistemological and comparative analyses by the authors and editors. Several principles and common themes are emphasized and both strengths and potential sources of uncertainty in applications are discussed. This volume will hopefully stimulate new interdisciplinary avenues of problem-solving research.
The Rural Economy of the West of England: Including Devonshire; and Parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall. Together with Minutes in Practice. By Mr. Marshall. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
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Author: Soil Conservation
Author: Soils Stones and Symbols Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World
Author: Nicole BoivinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134057423
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Ethnographic and archaeological records feature a rich body of data suggesting that understandings of the mineral world are in fact both culturally variable and highly diverse. Soils, Stones and Symbols highlights studies from the fields of anthropology, archaeology and philosophy that demonstrate that not all individuals and societies view minerals as commodities to be exploited for economic gain, or as passive objects of disembodied scientific enquiry. In visiting such diverse contexts as contemporary India, colonial-period Australia and prehistoric Europe and the Americas, the papers in this volume demonstrate that in pre-industrial societies, minerals are often symbolically meaningful, ritually powerful, and deeply interwoven into not just economic and material, but also social, cosmological, mythical, spiritual and philosophical aspects of life. In addressing the theme of the mineral world, this book is not only unique within the social and geo-sciences, but also at the forefront of recent attempts to demonstrate the importance of materiality to processes of human cognition and sociality. It draws upon theoretical developments relating to meaning, experience, the body, and material culture to demonstrate that studies of rock art, landscapes, architecture, technology and resource use are all linked through the minerals that constantly surround us and are the focus of our never-ending attempts to understand and transform them.
Author: William Borlase
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