Download or read book International Symposium on Nomads and Use of Pastures Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symposium organized by the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations and supported by Unesco; held in Ulaanbaatar, December 13-15, 1999.

Download or read book Open Symposium on Change and Sustainability of Pastoral Land Use Systems in Temperate and Central Asia Ulaanbaatar Mongolia June 28 July 1 2001 written by Togtohyn Chuluun and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the symposium with reference to Mongolia.

Download or read book The Mongolian Ecosystem Network written by Norio Yamamura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands. The book has three parts. Part I is an introduction, explaining the key concept of an ecosystem network and providing background information on the general features of Mongolian nomadic pastoralism as well as distribution of vegetation in Mongolian grasslands. Part II describes the effects of natural environmental factors and nomadic activities on grassland conditions. Water dynamics that maintain the grassland system are analyzed in a steppe region with shrubs and in a forest-steppe region with trees. Part III describes the effects of economic and social factors on land-use and the livelihood of herders. As nomadic people moved closer to large cities for economic advantage in the 1990s, degradation of pastures by overgrazing resulted. Finally, the impacts of global warming and globalization on the Mongolian society and ecosystem are examined. This book analyzes environmental problems in Mongolian grasslands, but the contents contribute to consideration of environmental problems and sustainable pasture use in grassland areas worldwide.

Download or read book Nomadic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dilemmas of Diversity After the Cold War written by Michele R. Rivkin-Fish and published by Woodrow Wilson Center. This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Cultural Turn in Geography written by Paul Claval and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ecosystems and Land Use Change written by Ruth DeFries and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2004-01-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 153. Land use is at the center of one of the most vexing challenges for the coming decades: to provide enough food, fiber and shelter for the world's population; raise the standard of living for the billion people currently below the poverty line; and simultaneously sustain the world's ecosystems for use by humans and other species. The intended consequence of cropland expansion, urban growth, and other land use changes is to satisfy demands from the increasing appetite of the world's population. Unintended consequences, however, can alter ecological processes and have far-reaching and long-term effects that potentially compromise the basic functioning of ecosystems. Recently, the scientific community has begun to confront such issues. Several national and international programs have been at the forefront of scientific enquiry on the causes and consequences of land use change, including: the Land Use and Land Cover Change Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Land Use program element in the interagency U.S. Climate Change Science Program, and the International Geosphere-Biosphere's Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) core project. The result has been significant advances in understanding the complex socioeconomic, technological, and biophysical factors that drive land use change worldwide.

Download or read book Ecosystems and Land Use Change written by Ruth S. DeFries and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2004-01-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics of this volume include multiple ecosystem responses to land use change, including hydrologic, climatic, and biogeochemical, with human health and species diversity responses; observing, forecasting, and hindcasting land use change; and regional studies of ecosystem interactions with land use change.

Download or read book International Review for Environmental Strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of a Sustainable Agro pastoral System in the Dry Areas of Northeast Asia written by Kazunobu Toriyama and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nomads in the Middle East written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of an International Meeting on Ecological Guidelines for the Use of Natural Resources in the Middle East and South West Asia Held at Persepolis Iran 24 30 May 1975 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII written by Remi Berthon and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwest Asia is at the epicenter of zooarchaeological research on pivotal changes in human history such as animal domestication and the emergence of social complexity. This volume continues the long tradition of the ASWA conference series in publishing new research results in the zooarchaeology of southwest Asia and adjacent areas. The book is organized in three thematic areas. The first presents new methodological tools and approaches in the study of animal remains exemplified through studies on domestication, butchery practices, microdebris, intrasite contextual comparisons and age-at-death recording. Besides offering interesting insights into our past, these methodological developments enable higher resolution for future research. The second section focuses on the subsistence economies of prehistoric and early complex societies and provides new insights into how animal management developed in southwest Asia. The third section includes intriguing new research results on the roles of animals in the symbolic world of ancient societies, such as the meaning of insect figures at Gobekli Tepe, animal cults in Egypt, feasting in Iron Age Oman, and the ornithological interpretation of Byzantine mosaics.

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Grassland Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture Materials and Construction written by Paulo Mendonça and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (ICAMC), held in Lisbon, Portugal on October 27-29, 2021. ICAMC serves as an international forum for the presentation of the latest technological advances and research results in the fields of architecture and urban planning, civil and structural engineering, and materials manufacturing and processing. As such, it explores highly diverse topics, including innovative construction technologies (computer and digital manufacturing) and materials (polymers, composites, etc.); traditional materials (glass, wood, steel, concrete, stone, brick, etc.) and its harmonic combination which can be achieved by evaluating their structural and non-structural properties; the key concepts of efficiency and sustainability related to the architectural design and engineering of new buildings; analysis, rehabilitation and restoration of buildings. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.