Author: Pascal Pompey PironePublisher:
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Category : Ornamental trees
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Tree Maintenance
Author: Pascal Pompey PironePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ornamental trees
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
Author: Bibliography
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Seeing Trees
Author: Sonja DümpelmannPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300225784
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
"A deep . . . dive into urban society's need for--and relationship with--trees that sought to return the natural world to the concrete jungle."--Adrian Higgins, Washington Post Winner of the Foundation for Landscape Studies' 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann explains, the planting of street trees in cities to serve specific functions is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dümpelmann shows how New York City and Berlin began systematically planting trees to improve the urban climate during the nineteenth century, presenting the history of the practice within its larger social, cultural, and political contexts. A unique integration of empirical research and theory, Dümpelmann's richly illustrated work uncovers this important untold story. Street trees--variously regarded as sanitizers, nuisances, upholders of virtue, economic engines, and more--reflect the changing relationship between humans and nonhuman nature in urban environments. Offering valuable insights and frameworks, this authoritative volume will be an important resource for years to come.
A Green and Permanent Land
Author: Randal S. BeemanPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twentieth-century America, showing how ecological thought has challenged and changed agricultural theory, practice, and policy from the 1930s to the present. It introduces us to the people and institutions who forged alternatives to industrialized agriculture through a deep concern for the enduring fertility of the soil, a passionate commitment to human health, and a strong advocacy of economic justice for farmers. Randal Beeman and James Pritchard show that agricultural issues were central to the rise of the environmental movement in the United States. As family farms failed during the Depression, a new kind of agriculture was championed based on the holistic approach taught by the emerging science of ecology. Ecology influenced the "permanent agriculture" movement that advocated such radical concepts as long-term land use planning, comprehensive soil conservation, and organic farming. Then in the 1970s, "sustainable agriculture" combined many of these ideas with new concerns about misguided technology and an over-consumptive culture to preach a more sensible approach to farming. In chronicling the overlooked history of alternative agriculture, A Green and Permanent Land records the significant contributions of individuals like Rex Tugwell, Hugh Bennett, Louis Bromfield, Edward Faulkner, Russell and Kate Lord, Scott and Helen Nearing, Robert Rodale, Wes Jackson, and groups like Friends of the Land and the Practical Farmers of Iowa. And by demonstrating how agriculture also remains central to the public interest—especially in the face of climatic crises, genetically altered crops, and questionable uses of pesticides—this book puts these issues in historical perspective and offers readers considerable food for thought.
Roadside Development
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Committee on Roadside DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Western Trees, Parks and Forests
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Arborist's News
Author: Roadside Development
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Roadside Development
Author: Earl F. FerrisPublisher:
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Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description