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Book Environment  Space  Place  Volume 1   Issue 1  Spring 2009

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 1 Issue 1 Spring 2009 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment Space Place  Volume 3   Issue 1  Spring 2011

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 3 Issue 1 Spring 2011 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place   Volume 2  Issue 1  Spring 2010

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2010 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place  Volume 8  Issue 1  Spring 2016

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 8 Issue 1 Spring 2016 written by C. Patrick Heidkamp; Troy Paddock; Christine Petto and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Victor COUNTED: Making Sense of Place Attachment: Towards a Holistic Understanding of People-Place Relationships and Experiences ABSTRACT: The article is an attempt to make sense of the different interdisciplinary perspectives associated with people’s attachment to places with a view to construct a holistic template for understanding peopleplace relationships and experiences. We took note of the theoretical contributionsof Jorgensen & Stedman (2001), Scannell & Giff ord (2010), and Seamon (2012, 2014) to construct an integrative framework for understanding emotional links to places and people’s perception and experience of places. This was done with the intention of illuminating on the meaning of place and the diff erent “places” people get attached to. The paper concludes by incorporating different place frameworks with the intention of establishing a holistic model for understanding the different attributes and perceptions of people-place relationships and experiences. Roger PADEN: Landscapes and Evolutionary Aesthetics ABSTRACT: This essay examines the possibility of developing a more complete evolutionary aesthetics that can be used to appraise both natural landscapes and works of landscape architects. For the purpose of thisessay, an “evolutionary aesthetics” is an aesthetic theory that is closely connected to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Two types of Darwinian evolutionary aesthetics seem possible; a theory of evolved tastes, such as that developed by Dennis Dutton, and an aesthetics of evolving nature based on Carlson’s positive aesthetics. After, exploring both theories, I argue that, while the two positions approach aesthetics from diff erent directions, they support similar aesthetic judgments concerning landscapes, and this suggests that the two positions might be incorporated into a broader theory of evolutionary aesthetics. Th at theory is briefl y outlined and applied to both natural landscapes and parks. Jeffrey B. WEBB: Watershed Redesign in the Upper Wabash River Drainage Area, 1870-1970 ABSTRACT: The Huntington, Salamonie, and Mississinewa reservoirs in northern Indiana control seasonal flooding in the Upper Wabash River drainage area. They appeared in the 1960s after a long period of study and planning in response to large-scale fl ooding in central and southern Indiana in the fi rst half of the twentieth century. Th eir construction disrupted the pattern of human ecology along the Wabash and its tributaries for many of the watershed’s inhabitants. Supporters touted the projects’ economic and recreational benefi ts, while opponents experienced the change as a desecration of sacred space. Th e projects saved millions in property damage and perhaps many human lives, but at the cost of an enduring sense of place amid the advent of a new regime of scientific watershed management and state control over natural resources in the region. Winnie L. M. YEE: Fashion, Affect, and Poetry in a Global City ABSTRACT: Everyday life is a central theme of Hong Kong poetry. Many Hong Kong poets use the quotidian as a starting point for the exploration of history and alternative imaginings. Th is mundane focus, unlike the colonial dreamscape of Hong Kong as an economic miracle, allows writers to refl ect upon Hong Kong as a post-colonial and global space. Th e Hong Kong writer Natalia Chan examines the complex nature of everyday life within the space of the global and post-colonial city. Chan’s poems deal with the essence of everydayness and use commodities to conjure up the vivacity of the urbanscape of Hong Kong. Unlike the political and economic discourse that is usually used to define Hong Kong, Chan’s work portrays Hong Kong as a city that off ers the possibility of daily re-creation against the background of history. In this article, we will examine Chan’s use of the circulation of commodities in the global world and explore the way fashion becomes a point where high and popular culture, private and public domains, and local and global interests clash, negotiate, and fertilize each other. Chan’s works do not conform to the economic and prosperity discourse that has repressed Hong Kong; rather, she guides her readers to re-experience the everydayness of routines, to celebrate alternate ways of understanding the urbanscape, and to open themselves to the potentialities of art and the everyday. Emmanuel YEWAH: African Documentaries, Films, Texts, and Environmental Issues ABSTRACT: This study draws from theoretical environmental debates as well as a selection of fi lms, documentaries, and texts to discuss Africans’ approaches to environmental and ecological problems. Furthermore, it highlights the various strategies that Africans have developed in their attempts to provide holistic and much more comprehensive responses to environmental challenges. Informed by African indigenous knowledge, those strategies do involve community-based micro-level initiatives, grassroots organizations, ancestral spirits, and use local languages or lingua franca to educate as well as prod the people’s consciousness about environmental and ecological issues. REVIEWS Lorna Lueker ZUKAS: Forgotten World. Directed by Terri Ella Derek SHANAHAN: The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes. By Patrick Keiller.

Book Environment  Space  Place   Volume 2  Issue 2  Fall 2010

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 2 Issue 2 Fall 2010 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place   Volume 1  Issue 1  Spring 2009

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 1 Issue 1 Spring 2009 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place

Download or read book Environment Space Place written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place  Volume 7  Issue 1  Spring 2015

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 7 Issue 1 Spring 2015 written by C. Patrick Heidkamp and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nu s-au introdus date

Book Environment Space Place    Issue 2  Fall 2009

Download or read book Environment Space Place Issue 2 Fall 2009 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place   Volume 5  Issue 1  Spring 2013

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 5 Issue 1 Spring 2013 written by Gary Backhaus and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment  Space  Place   Volume 5  Issue 2  Fall 2013

Download or read book Environment Space Place Volume 5 Issue 2 Fall 2013 written by C. Patrick Heidkamp and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biochar for Environmental Management

Download or read book Biochar for Environmental Management written by Johannes Lehmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biochar is the carbon-rich product when biomass (such as wood, manure or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways, and its stability in soil and superior nutrient-retention properties make it an ideal soil amendment to increase crop yields. In addition to this, biochar sequestration, in combination with sustainable biomass production, can be carbon-negative and therefore used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with major implications for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gases that are given off in the pyrolysis process. This book is the first to synthesize the expanding research literature on this topic. The book's interdisciplinary approach, which covers engineering, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, economics and policy, is a vital tool at this stage of biochar technology development. This comprehensive overview of current knowledge will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and professionals in a wide range of disciplines.

Book Union List of Serials of the California State University

Download or read book Union List of Serials of the California State University written by California State University and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reluctant Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cole Harris
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0774858389
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book The Reluctant Land written by Cole Harris and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.

Book Book Review Index   2009 Cumulation

Download or read book Book Review Index 2009 Cumulation written by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

Book The New Nature Writing

Download or read book The New Nature Writing written by Jos Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of “clone town Britain.”