Considers, and quantifies where possible, the whole "resource-environment" process. It sets out the historical and conceptual background to resource use and management and then proceeds to tie together the frameworks of management for resources and environment, present and future.

Earth Air And Water Resources And Environment In Late Twentieth Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Simmons, Ian

Social Sciences

Routledge

This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new' cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book comprises three major, interwoven strands. First, fundamental factors such as environmental change and population pressure are addressed in order to sketch the contextual variables of landscapes production. Second, the evolution of the humanised landscape is discussed in terms of processes such as clearing wood, the impact of agriculture, the creation of urban-industrial complexes, and is also treated in historical periods such as the pre-industrial, the modern and the post-modern. From this we can see the cultural and economic signatures of human societies at different times and places. Finally, examples of landscape types are selected in order to illustrate the ways in which landscape both represents and participates in social change. The authors use a wide range of source material, ranging from place-names and pollen diagrams to literature and heritage monuments. Superbly illustrated throughout, it is essential reading for first-year undergraduates studying historical geography, human geography, cultural geography or landscape history.

People, Land and Time: An Historical Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment

History

Atkins, Peter

Roberts, Brian

World

A gleaning of ungraceful exits into the arms of the Grim Reaper, Strange Deaths sets out to prove that the ways we die are sometimes more strange than the ways we live. Culled from newspaper reports around the globe, Strange Deaths is a catalog of catastrophes the likes of which you've never seen-and hopefully you'll never experience.

Strange deaths: More than 375 freakish fatalites

Barnes&Noble

Collected from accounts the world over. Among these 375 brief, mind-boggling reports of animal mishaps and misadventures-from the drunken monkey who defended a pantry-corner foothold by hurling potatoes and oranges a the hapless homeowners to the team of rebbits, that overtook a coastal Russian town by marching in formation to feed on sea kelp-are the animal stories you never heard as a child.

Exploding Pigs and Other Bizarre Animal Stories

Book by Simmons, Ian, Tooley, Michael

The Environment in British Prehistory

Tooley, Michael

Europe

Cornell Univ Pr

Environmental Sciences: A Student′s Companion

This unique addition to reference literature provides an introduction to the major concepts and contemporary issues that are essential for students of environmental science and environmental studies to know. With over 200 entries authored by world-class names like Anthony Brazel, John Day and Edward Keller, this text is divided into six sections: Environmental Science, Environments, Paradigms &amp; Concepts, Processes &amp; Dynamics, Scales &amp; Techniques, and Environmental Issues.

Science & Math

Keller, Edward A.

Day, John W.

Gregory, Kenneth J.

Brazel, Anthony

Yáñez-Arancibia, Alejandro

Sylvester, Arthur G

Earth Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

Exploding Pigs and Other Strange Animal St

Biological Sciences

John Brown Publishing

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