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Geelong's Changing Landscape

Author : David Jones,Phillip Roös
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643103627

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Geelong's Changing Landscape by David Jones,Phillip Roös Pdf

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region. Commencing with the penetrating perspectives of Wadawurrung Elders, chapters explore colonisation and post-World War II industrial development through to the present challenges surrounding the ongoing urbanisation of this region. Expert contributors provide thoughtful analysis of the ecological and cultural characteristics of the landscape, the impact of past actions, and options for ethical future management of the region. This book will be of value to scientists, engineers, land use planners, environmentalists and historians.

Kenya's Changing Landscape

Author : Raymond M. Turner,H. Awala Ochung',Jeanne B. Turner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780816518715

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Kenya's Changing Landscape by Raymond M. Turner,H. Awala Ochung',Jeanne B. Turner Pdf

Botanist Homer L. Shantz took photographs of the Kenyan landscape in the early 1920s as part of his effort to document the natural plant cover of Africa. He returned there with B. L. Turner in the late 1950s to repeat the photographs. In 1990, Raymond Turner traveled to Kenya under the auspices of the National Geographic Society in order to match the photographs made by Shantz and B.L. Turner and to show the changes that have occurred over the decades since Shantz's initial journey. Turner's comparative photos and research into the botanical record dramatically reflect the encroachment of woody plants in arid areas and the increasing human impact in more humid locales. Turner's discussions of the photographs and the conclusions he draws provide an important reference for ecologists, geographers, botanists, and other researchers attempting similar studies. By documenting vegetation change in a region broadly similar climatically to North America's subtropical deserts and grasslands but different in its wildlife and its human culture, the book shows that the endpoints of landscape status are similar despite the vastly different histories of these two regions of the world.

Landscapes and Geomorphology: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Andrew Goudie,Heather Viles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191614156

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Landscapes and Geomorphology: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Goudie,Heather Viles Pdf

What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles demonstrate how geomorphologists have built on classic methods pioneered by some great 19th century scientists to examine our Earth. Using examples from around the world, including New Zealand, the Tibetan Plateau, and the deserts of the Middle East, they examine some of the key controls on landscape today such as tectonics and climate, as well as humans and the living world. They also discuss some key 'landscape detectives' from the past, including Charles Darwin who did some important, but often overlooked, research on landscape. Concluding with the cultural importance of landscape, and exploring how this has led to the conservation of much 'earth heritage', they delve into the future and look at how we can predict the response of landscapes to climate change in the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

Author : Henning Steinfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215141149

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Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1 by Henning Steinfeld Pdf

Livestock in a Changing Landscape is a collaborative effort by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); FAO Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative (LEAD); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL), Bern University of Applied Sciences; French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD); and Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.--COVER.

Landscape Interfaces

Author : Hannes Palang,G. Fry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401701891

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Landscape Interfaces by Hannes Palang,G. Fry Pdf

This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued across the Baltic to Tartu, Estonia, in JUly. The papers presented at the workshop have been supported by invited contributions that address a wider range of the cultural heritage management issues and research interfaces required to study cultural landscapes. The book focuses on landscape interfaces. Both the ones we find out there in the landscape and the ones we face while doing research. We hope that this book helps if not to make use of these interfaces, then at least to map them and bridge some of the gaps between them. The editors wish to thank those people helping us to assemble this collection. First of all our gratitude goes to the authors who contributed to the book. We would like to thank Marc Antrop, Mats Widgren, Roland Gustavsson, Marion Pots chin, Barbel Tress, Tiina Peil, Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann for their quick and helpful advice, opinions and comments during the different stages of editing. Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann together with Piret Pungas - thank you for technical help.

Mount St. Helens, a Changing Landscape

Author : Chuck Williams
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032842903

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Mount St. Helens, a Changing Landscape by Chuck Williams Pdf

In this fascinating book you will see Mount St. Helens as viewed by 19th century painters and by photographers from the turn of the century to the present day.

Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape

Author : Winston Tinglin,Donna Joyette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1525561898

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Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape by Winston Tinglin,Donna Joyette Pdf

Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape reaches deep into the authors' extensive experience as both observers and practitioners of community engagement. It is further enriched by insights drawn from the diverse experiences of professionals in the field. Critical questions are honestly faced in a refreshing discourse that also highlights promising practices and approaches. These combined features provide both a thought-provoking retrospective and forward-looking commentary, which offer the reader a renewed understanding of community engagement and its exciting possibilities. Professionals, students and volunteers working in the community should find in this book a very useful resource....

A Changing World

Author : Felix Kienast,Otto Wildi,Sucharita Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402044366

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A Changing World by Felix Kienast,Otto Wildi,Sucharita Ghosh Pdf

Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories. This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the ‘driving forces’ of Landscape Development. the book addresses all of the ‘hot topics’ in this important area of study and emphasizes major contemporary trends in these fields.

Design for the Changing Educational Landscape

Author : Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134481972

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Design for the Changing Educational Landscape by Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton Pdf

The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding outcome observable worldwide: the rise of distributed space. In the learning environment the social, political, economic and technological changes responsible for this shift have been further compounded by constantly developing theories of learning and teaching, and a wide acceptance of the importance of learning as the core of the community, resulting in the blending of all aspects of learning into one seamless experience. This book attempts to look at all the forces driving the provision and pedagogic performance of the many spaces, real and virtual, that now accommodate the experience of learning and provide pointers towards the creation and design of learning-centred communities. Part 1 looks at the entire learning universe as it now stands, tracks the way in which its constituent parts came to occupy their role, assesses how they have responded to a complex of drivers and gauges their success in dealing with renewed pressures to perform. It shows that what is required is innovation within the spaces and integration between them. Part 2 finds many examples of innovation in evidence across the world – in schools, the higher and further education campus and in business and cultural spaces – but an almost total absence of integration. Part 3 offers a model that redefines the learning landscape in terms of learning outcomes, mapping spatial requirements and activities into a detailed mechanism that will achieve the best outcome at the most appropriate scale. By encouraging stakeholders to creating an events-based rather than space-based identity, the book hopes to point the way to a fully-integrated learning landscape: a learning community.

A Changing Landscape

Author : Laurie Ristino,Jessica E. Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 1585761796

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Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Changing the Corporate Landscape

Author : Jean Otte
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1563527359

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Changing the Corporate Landscape by Jean Otte Pdf

Offers a real-life examples and suggestions to help women develop their leadership knowledge and skills and facilitate the development of others.

Memory and Landscape

Author : Kenneth Pratt,Scott A. Heyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771993154

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Memory and Landscape by Kenneth Pratt,Scott A. Heyes Pdf

The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes. In this beautifully illustrated volume, contributors document how Indigenous communities in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia are seeking ways to maintain and strengthen their cultural identity while also embracing forces of disruption. Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors bring together oral history and scholarly research from disciplines such as linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory. With an emphasis on Indigenous place names, this volume illuminates how the land--and the memories that are inextricably tied to it--continue to define Indigenous identity. The perspectives presented here also serve to underscore the value of Indigenous knowledge and its essential place in future studies of the Arctic. Contributions by Vinnie Baron, Hugh Brody, Kenneth Buck, Anna Bunce, Donald Butler, Michael A. Chenlov, Aron L. Crowell, Peter C. Dawson, Martha Dowsley, Robert Drozda, Gary Holton, Colleen Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Emily Kearney-Williams, Igor Krupnik, Apayo Moore, Murielle Nagy, Mark Nuttall, Evon Peter, Louann Rank, William E. Simeone, Felix St-Aubin, and Will Stolz.

Resilience and the Cultural Landscape

Author : Tobias Plieninger,Claudia Bieling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781139789516

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Resilience and the Cultural Landscape by Tobias Plieninger,Claudia Bieling Pdf

All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural landscape' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. This book brings together these two perspectives, providing new insights into the social-ecological resilience of cultural landscapes by coming to terms with, and challenging, the concepts of 'driving forces', 'thresholds', 'adaptive cycles' and 'adaptive management'. By linking these research communities, this book develops a new perspective on landscape changes. Based on firm conceptual contributions and rich case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, it will appeal to anyone interested in analysing and managing change in human-shaped environments in the context of sustainability.

The Changing Landscape of International Schooling

Author : Tristan Bunnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317814481

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The Changing Landscape of International Schooling by Tristan Bunnell Pdf

The number of English-medium international schools that deliver their curriculum wholly or partly in the English language reportedly reached 6,000 in January 2012. It is anticipated this number will rise to over 11,000 schools by 2022, employing over 500,000 English-speaking teachers. The number of children being taught in these schools reportedly reached 3 million in March 2012. Alongside this phenomenal growth the landscape of international schooling has changed fundamentally, moving away from largely serving the children of the expat and globally mobile business community and Embassies, towards serving the ‘local’ children of the wealthy and emerging middle-class. This has been reflected in the shift away from non-profit ownership by the school community towards ownership by for-profit companies and proprietors. In this book, Tristan Bunnell explores the changing landscape of international schooling and discusses the implications of these changes, both in terms of theoretically conceptualizing the scale, nature and purpose of the field, and in terms of practically serving and administering the growing industry that international education is becoming. The Changing Landscape of International Schooling will be worthwhile reading for researchers, academics and students of international schooling, leaders and teachers in international schools, and those interested in the broader development of international education.

Changing Landscapes

Author : Lee Webster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542529115

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While the funeral is one of mankind's oldest rituals, funeral practices are not exempt from adaptation and change. Today's families are instinctively seeking more environmentally responsible body care and disposition options, more hands-on participation in the funeral period, regardless of where they live or how much money they have to spend. The self-imposed policies and standard practices espoused by the funeral industry are being challenged on every level and for every reason by every generation, from aging Baby Boomers' quest for equality, affordability, and authenticity, right on down to Millennials' pragmatic, tech savvy entrepreneurial spirit. How are funeral professionals responding to the rapidly growing, persistent demand for green products and services? Will the industry be able to pivot and produce nimbly enough to save the profession from rising any higher on the endangered careers list? What does it mean to be an innovator in the field of green funeral service from the inside? And how can greenwashing be avoided? These writers provide a different glimpse into the world of funeral service than the standard mortuary fare. Many of them have devoted their lives to envisioning a more just, eco-responsible, and honorable way to care for our dead, while others are acting as the canaries in the coal mine, adopting green practices early and parenting them as they develop. All the thought leaders in this collection have one central theme in common: finding ways to honor our commitment to ethical and compassionate funeral practices that nourish the relationships between families and providers, the profession and the public, and human beings and the Earth.