Download or read book The Eastern Crescent and Beyond written by Veronica Yanil Romero and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2050, urban areas will house 68% of the total global population (United Nations, 2018). As these areas expand, agricultural lands are lost to development. In the United States, the bulk of this agricultural land is located in the peri-urban fringe – a distinct area that exists between urban and rural areas and is characterized by prime agricultural soils and local production of fruits and vegetables (Optiz et al. 2015; Brinkley, 2012). When compared to other states, Texas’ peri-urban agricultural lands were found to be the most susceptible to land use conversion. However, a policy response to combat agricultural land loss is nearly non-existent (Freedgood et al., 2020). The loss of agricultural land is indicative of declining local food systems and food production. In addition to loss of agricultural land, local food production suffers from diminishing economic viability. Multifunctional agriculture is often recommended as a strategy for farm viability (Meert et al., 2005). Multifunctional agricultural encourages farms and ranches to diversify operations by providing diverse goods, services and experiences, such as educational workshops, farm-to-table eateries, composting, venue space, and more, in addition to food production (Zasada, 2011), This report aims to understand the state of and potential for local food production and multifunctional agriculture in the eastern peri-urban fringe of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan area. This aim is fulfilled by employing three methods: 1) a quantitative assessment to determine the potential amount of fruits and vegetables which could be produced in the site, 2) a review of local government land use planning and policies, and 3) a multi-criteria analysis to identify suitable land for food production. The study area includes four counties and eleven municipalities in the eastern peri-urban fringe of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan area in Central Texas. Findings indicate that although the study area can potentially support the estimated annual fruits and vegetables demand of residents within and nearby for the next two decades and that there is a cluster of large parcels suitable for food production, current local government land use planning and policies do not seem to support the local food system
Download or read book The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent written by Roger Matthews and published by Central Zagros Archaeological. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture based on major excavations in Iraq.
Download or read book Beyond the Fertile Crescent Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe The Azraq Basin Project written by Andrew Garrard and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural arc of resource-rich land which forms the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of South-West Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of village-based farming in the world and has been the focus of much of our understanding of the transition from Epipalaeolithic hunter-gathers to Neolithic farmers. Beyond the Fertile Crescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scale archaeological and palaeoenvironmental survey and excavation project undertaken between 1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-region of the Azraq Basin in north-central Jordan: an area rich in Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology. Beginning with an overview to the Project aims, a detailed analysis of past and present environments and land use and the history of excavation in the Basin, Beyond the Fertile Crescent explores the geology, stratigraphy and dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites and provides a detailed description of the technology and typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites. These are then compared with those from the wider Levant, in order to explore possible links between technological traditions and social groups in order to understand the evidence for settlement strategies across the region.
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Download or read book The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe written by Sue Colledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from a pan-regional perspective, thus making a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes and dynamics in the transition to food production on both continents. It will be relevant to students, researchers, practitioners and instructors in archaeology, archaeobotany, agrobotany, agricultural history, anthropology, area studies, economic history and cultural development.
Download or read book Black Star Crescent Moon written by Sohail Daulatzai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. Daulatzai maps the shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. From publisher description.
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Download or read book Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regions beyond the journal of the East London institute for home and foreign missions afterw organ of the Regions beyond missionary union Ed by mrs H G Guinness written by Regions beyond missionary union and published by . This book was released on with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Framing History in East Central Europe and Beyond written by Ferdinand Kühnel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.
Download or read book The Land and the Book Lebanon Damascus and beyond Jordan written by William McClure Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Building by between and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians written by Mohammed Abu-Nimer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within the book is used to offer dialogue and responses between different contributors. This dialogue reveals that Christians and Muslims hold many things in common while having meaningful differences. It also shows the value of honestly sharing convictions while respecting and hearing the beliefs of another.
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Download or read book Shi i Materiality Beyond Karbala written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the frontiers of scholarship on Islamic and Religious Studies, Material Religion, Heritage Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.The contributions presented in this volume demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly. The volume posits that materialities of religion are integral to processes of heritagization shaped by competing social and political actors involved in the construction and canonization of religious—in this case, Shiʿi—heritage.
Download or read book Burials Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond written by M. C. Gatto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.
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Download or read book Beyond written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic Duchy that focuses mostly on horse breeding. Anticipating the day when the Empire's exploitative and militant leaders would not be content to leave them alone, his father gathered magicians in the hopes of one day finding a way to escape and protect the people of the Duchy from tyranny. One of the Duchy's mages find there is a way to place a Gate at a distance so far from the Empire that it is unlikely the Emperor can find or follow them as they evacuate everyone that is willing to leave. When Kordas is summoned to the Emperor's Court, will his reputation as a country bumpkin buy his people the time they need to flee? -- adapted from jacket.
