Download or read book Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 5 written by Christian Valentin and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un tiers des sols mondiaux est déjà dégradé et la pression sur les terres ne cesse d’augmenter sous les urgences d’urbanisation, d’artificialisation, d’exploitations minières et des besoins accrus en terres agricoles : changements des régimes alimentaires, spéculation foncière, etc. L’encroûtement superficiel constitue le premier processus d’érosion hydrique. La salinisation des sols affecte d’immenses surfaces des zones arides et semi-arides, et une partie des zones côtières en raison de la subsidence continentale et de l’élévation du niveau de la mer. Sans oublier l’acidification des sols du fait de retombées des émissions de soufre et de la fertilisation azotée. Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 5, rare ouvrage à approfondir la question de l’artificialisation des sols, présente les principaux facteurs de leur dégradation, et les différentes voies de prévention et de réhabilitation. Cet ouvrage traite également des pollutions métalliques et organiques, ainsi que de la gestion des sols urbains dont les résidus peuvent fertiliser les sols cultivés.
Download or read book Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 2 written by Guillaume Dhérissard and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base de la vie végétale, support de nos constructions et de nos infrastructures, réserve de biodiversité, réservoir de carbone… la liste de services rendus par les sols pourrait être longue. Leur importance cruciale pour la vie humaine n’est plus à démontrer. Il n’en reste pas moins que les sols, déjà fragiles, sont régulièrement les victimes de nos conflits d’intérêts, locaux et globaux, économiques et environnementaux. Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 2 propose un tour d’horizon des enjeux liés à une meilleure gestion des sols. Plusieurs regards seront convoqués, celui de l’agronome comme du juriste, de l’économiste comme du paysagiste ou du politiste. Ces analyses et réflexions permettront de réfléchir à une meilleure prise en compte des sols dans nos sociétés. Nous examinerons notamment les modalités de gouvernance pertinentes pour gérer ces biens précieux qui nous sont communs.
Download or read book Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 4 written by Guilhem Bourrié and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 4 examine le rôle majeur, mais sous-estimé, que jouent les sols dans l’acquisition de la qualité de l’eau : alimentation en eau potable, irrigation, nutrition des plantes. Tout ceci vient de l’interaction entre les sols et l’eau. Il traite des transformations de la qualité de l’eau dans les sols qui constituent la face cachée de la pédogenèse et influencent les grands cycles biogéochimiques à l’échelle du globe, y compris le cycle du carbone et la composition de l’atmosphère. En traversant les sols, la solution du sol change de composition, se charge de sels dissous et recharge les nappes, ressources d’eau potable. L’ouvrage examine en quoi les sols constituent ainsi un « système de transfert », et en quoi la gestion intégrée des bassins versants permet de restaurer la qualité des eaux tout en protégeant les sols et ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui globalement leurs services écosystémiques.
Download or read book Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 1 written by Jacques Berthelin and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’intérêt scientifique, socio-économique, politique et médiatique pour les sols semble renaître depuis quelques années. Ils sont désormais reconnus comme support des productions végétales et des activités humaines, compartiment terrestre essentiel de la biosphère renfermant 25 % de la biodiversité terrestre, et comme régulateurs des grands équilibres. Cette multifonctionnalité des sols les place au coeur de la zone critique pour l’humanité où s’épanouit la vie. Mais savons-nous ce que sont les sols ? Comment sont-ils perçus ? Comment les définit-on ? Quelle place occupent-ils à la surface terrestre ? Comment se sont-ils formés ? Comment fonctionnent-ils ? À quoi servent-ils ? Autant de questions auxquelles s’efforce de répondre cette série d’ouvrages. Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 1 présente les définitions des sols et analyse leurs propriétés, les fonctions et services qu’ils assurent, les pressions qu’ils subissent et les perspectives qui s’ouvrent.
Download or read book Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 6 written by Philippe Lemanceau and published by ISTE Group. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les sols sont des milieux où évolue une myriade d’organismes différents, déterminant une série de fonctions, qui se traduisent en services écosystémiques essentiels pour l’humanité. Mieux connaitre ces organismes, leur biodiversité, leurs interactions, ainsi que celles avec l’environnement, représente donc un enjeu majeur. L’écologie des sols plonge ses racines dans l’histoire naturelle. Cette vision écologique appliquée aux sols a la particularité d’intégrer au moins partiellement les apports des sciences du sol (physique, chimie, biochimie). Par le renouvellement des méthodes d’observations et d’analyses (notamment moléculaires), le développement d’approches expérimentales et de la modélisation, c’est une écologie connectée avec les autres disciplines axées sur le sol qui émerge et qui commence à influencer en retour l’écologie des milieux épigés. Les sols au coeur de la zone critique 6 présente la vision actualisée des connaissances et des pistes de recherche en écologie du sol en tant que système complexe des meilleurs spécialistes français.
Download or read book Tanzania s Land Rush written by Joanny Bélair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors' rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This 'land rush' was a marker of increased land commodification and agricultural financialization, but has also been associated with global narratives of agricultural modernization, and development through FDI of 'cheap, unproductive and/or idle' farmland. Yet, as this book demonstrates, global investment dynamics are dictated by complex economic, political, socio-historical dynamics in any host country. Focusing on the land rush in Tanzania, the contexts of six investment projects in the nation are examined and unpacked, helping to understand the ways in which political struggles over land, capital and authority all feed into determining the goals - and eventually the outcomes - of the 'farmland investment game'.
Download or read book Painted Love written by Hollis Clayson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Download or read book Cities and Agriculture written by Henk de Zeeuw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions of urban food challenges and types of intra- and peri-urban agriculture. The book provides urban planners, local policy makers and urban development practitioners with an overview of crucial aspects of urban food systems based on an up to date review of research results and practical experiences in both developed and developing countries. By doing so, the international team of authors provides a balanced textbook for students of the growing number of courses on sustainable agriculture, food and urban studies, as well as a solid basis for well-informed policy making, planning and implementation regarding the development of sustainable, resilient and just urban food systems.
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Download or read book My Thoughts written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Thoughts provides a unique window into the mind of one of the undisputed pioneers of modern thought, the author of the 1748 classic, The Spirit of the Laws. From the publication in 1721 of his first masterpiece, Persian Letters, until his death in 1755, Montesquieu maintained notebooks in which he wrote and dictated ideas on a wide variety of topics. Some of the contents are early drafts of passages that Montesquieu eventually placed in his published works; others are outlines or early versions of projected works that were ultimately lost, unfinished, or abandoned. These notebooks provide important insights into his views on a broad range of topics, including morality, religion, history, law, economics, finance, science, art, and constitutional liberty. Montesquieu called these notebooks Mes Pensées (My Thoughts), and they appear in their entirety in English for the first time in this Liberty Fund edition. Editor and translator Henry C. Clark provides readers with translations of most of the footnotes contained in the 1991 French edition by Louis Desgraves, while adding new notes, a bibliography, and other aids to understanding the text and translation. These features provide the frame for a revealing portrait of one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. Henry C. Clark is a Visiting Professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College. He has written two books and numerous articles, mainly on the French and Scottish Enlightenments.
Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 28 written by Sabrina Gaba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food. Major topics include ecosystem services biological pest control, conservation agriculture, drought stress, and soil biodiversity, carbon and fertilisation.
Download or read book The Dada Painters and Poets written by Robert Motherwell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.
Download or read book Disaster risk reduction in school curricula case studies from thirty countries written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cadmium in the Environment written by Mislin and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Empires written by P. Petitjean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.
