Environmental Interpretation

Author : Sam H. Ham
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D00510846U

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Environmental Interpretation by Sam H. Ham Pdf

Environmental Interpretation is the first truly applied treatment of environmental communication written specifically for people with big ideas and small budgets. Drawing on 20 years experience and the successes of his colleagues worldwide, Sam Ham presents an unusually diverse collection of low-cost communication techniques that really work. More than 200 illustrations, photos, and technical insets provide simple instructions for designing and implementing effective education programs in forests, parks, protected areas, zoos, botanical gardens, extension and community programs, and in all kinds of agriculture and natural resource management programs. Aside from its step-by-step, "how-to" approach, what sets this volume apart is its solid theoretical foundation. Readers learn not only how to communicate their ideas more forcefully but why the methods work. Some 20 case studies, carefully selected from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stimulate the imagination and show how others have successfully applied what this book is about. Written for beginners and experts alike, the book represents a valuable resource for anyone faced with the need to communicate about the environment yet constrained by lack of money and experience.

Author : Andrew Pierssene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814618

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Explaining Our World by Andrew Pierssene Pdf

This book offers a rational and philosophical approach to environmental interpretation, the educational purpose of which is particularly relevant in an age when specialization tends to distance most people from direct experience of the way the environment works. In reviewing the practice of interpretation, the author emphasises that effective work in this field must be finely tuned. The interpreter must constantly bear in mind the real value and significance of the features interpreted and the needs of the visitors to whom interpretation is addressed.

Author : L.E. Babcock
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0444520651

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Interpretation of Biological and Environmental Changes Across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Boundary by L.E. Babcock Pdf

The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition was a time of fundamental change in the biosphere. Between about 570 and 510 million years ago, marine organisms underwent considerable evolutionary innovation during a time of shifting ecological setting. This dramatic activity culminated in the first stratigraphic appearances of many recognizable groups of animals, an "event" often referred to as the "Cambrian explosion". In addition, there was a major change from a microbial mat-dominated sediment-water interface to a more extensively burrowed interface in shallow-marine settings. The early fossil record is a function not only of the rise or ecological diversification of marine organisms, but also the development of taphonomic and sedimentary conditions suitable for the preservation of mineralizing and nonmineralizing organisms. This book is devoted to an exploration of some of the emerging concepts and techniques used to develop greater insight into the early record of biologic diversification and the preservational record of that diversification during the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition. * Addresses key issues related to the Cambrian diversification of multicellular animals * Provocative new ideas about the factors involved in the exceptional preservation of fossils, with a balance between the development of ideas and hypothesis testing * Broad coverage of topics related to the Cambrian diversification of animals and the fossil record of that diversification; broad geographic coverage

Author : I. G. Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134862221

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Interpreting Nature by I. G. Simmons Pdf

Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.

Author : Weitao Chen,Xianju Li,Lizhe Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811937392

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Remote Sensing Intelligent Interpretation for Mine Geological Environment by Weitao Chen,Xianju Li,Lizhe Wang Pdf

This book examines the theory and methods of remote sensing intelligent interpretation based on deep learning. Based on geological and environmental effects on mines, this book constructs a set of systematic mine remote sensing datasets focusing on the multi-level task with the system of “target detection→scene classification→semantic segmentation." Taking China’s Hubei Province as an example, this book focuses on the following four aspects: 1. Development of a multiscale remote sensing dataset of the mining area, including mine target remote sensing dataset, mine (including non-mine areas) remote sensing scene dataset, and semantic segmentation remote sensing dataset of mining land cover. The three datasets are the basis of intelligent interpretation based on deep learning. 2. Research on mine target remote sensing detection method based on deep learning. 3. Research on remote sensing scene classification method of mine and non-mine areas based on deep learning. 4. Research on the fine-scale classification method of mining land cover based on semantic segmentation. The book is a valuable reference both for scholars, practitioners and as well as graduate students who are interested in mining environment research.

Author : Georges Abi-Saab,Kenneth Keith,Gabrielle Marceau,Clément Marquet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509929900

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Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law by Georges Abi-Saab,Kenneth Keith,Gabrielle Marceau,Clément Marquet Pdf

This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes. It begins by asking what interpretation is, offering the views of expert authors on the question, its components and definitions. It then comments on situations that have called for evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes, including general international law, environmental law, human rights law, EU law, investment law, international trade law, and how domestic courts have, on occasions, interpreted treaties and other international legal instruments in an evolutionary manner. This timely, authoritative compendium offers an in-depth understanding of the processes at work in evolutionary interpretation as well as a prime selection of the current trends and future challenges.

Author : David Uzzell,Roy Ballantyne
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : UCLA:L0081545279

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Contemporary Issues in Heritage and Environmental Interpretation by David Uzzell,Roy Ballantyne Pdf

This text provides professionals, researchers and trainers with a state-of-the-art summary of the field, illuminated by practical real-world examples of best practice.

Author : Rachel Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : WISC:89091241034

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Exhibit Programming for Environmental Interpretation by Rachel Lee Pdf

Author : Sam Ham
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933108919

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Interpretation by Sam Ham Pdf

In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a fresh and invigorating perspective that will lead interpreters to new and insightful pathways for making a difference on purpose through their work.

Author : Brian Treanor,Martin Drenthen,David Utsler
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823254279

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Interpreting Nature by Brian Treanor,Martin Drenthen,David Utsler Pdf

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

Author : Thomas Robert Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Isle Royale National Park (Mich.)
ISBN : WISC:89105682678

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Park Interpretation as an Environmental Communication Process with a Sample Interpretive Booklet Text on the Maritime Disaster History of Siskiwit Bay, Isle Royale, Lake Superior by Thomas Robert Holden Pdf

Author : Brian G. Slocum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226445021

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The Nature of Legal Interpretation by Brian G. Slocum Pdf

"Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless--we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal texts. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? ... [Contributors] argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly ... analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : OCLC:895779356

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Explaining Our World by Anonim Pdf

Author : John H. Jameson,Sherene Baugher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030819576

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Creating Participatory Dialogue in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Interpretation: Multinational Perspectives by John H. Jameson,Sherene Baugher Pdf

This volume examines evolving trends and transnational perspectives on public interpretation of archaeological and cultural heritage, as well as levels of communication, from local to regional, national and international. It is presented in the context of the evolution of cultural heritage studies from the 20th century “expert approach” to the 21st century “people-centered approach,” with public participation and community involvement at all phases of the decision-making process. Our premise is not just about bringing in community members to be partners in decision making processes; some projects are being initiated by the community--not the heritage experts. In some instances, community members are central in initiating and bringing about change rather than the archaeologists or heritage specialists. In several cases in the book, descendants take the lead in changing heritage narratives. The book addresses several central questions: Do these actions represent new emphases, or more fundamental pedagogical shifts, in interpretation? Are they resulting in more effective interpretation in facilitating emotional and intellectual connections and meanings for audiences? Are they revealing silenced histories? Can they contribute to, or help mediate, dialogues among a diversity of cultures? Can they be shared experiences as examples of good practice at national and international levels? What are the interpretation and presentation challenges for the future? Cultural heritage, as an expression of a diversity of cultures, can be an important mediator between pasts and futures. In the past, people in power from the dominant ethnic, racial, socio-economic, gender, and religious groups determined the heritage message. Minorities were often silenced; their participation in the building and growth of a city, county, or nation’s history was overlooked. New philosophical/methodological trends in public interpretation are reshaping the messages delivered at archaeological/cultural heritage sites worldwide. The role of the experts, as well as the participatory engagement of audiences and stakeholders are being redefined and reassessed. This book explores these processes, their results and effects on the future.

Author : Doug Knapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538195994

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Applied Interpretation by Doug Knapp Pdf

Applied Interpretation: Putting Research into Practice offers practitioners, managers, and students of interpretation a source for interpretive theory, techniques, strategies, and experiences that have been shown, through research, to be successful in conveying interpretive messages. This resource is the product of 16 years of research that has evaluated traditional programs, school field trips, and visitor center and campfire programs. The findings, offered through vignettes and case studies, are the product of long-term assessments that range from three months to three years following an interpretive experience.