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Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521479800
An analysis and synthesis of the ecology of heterogeneous land areas.
Author : Sharon K. Collinge
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801891380
Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, woodlands, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of naturally occurring environmental changes or the product of seemingly unchecked human development, fractured lands significantly impact the planet’s biological diversity. In Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes, Sharon K. Collinge defines fragmentation, explains its various causes, and suggests ways that we can put our lands back together. Researchers have been studying the ecological effects of dismantling nature for decades. In this book, Collinge evaluates this body of research, expertly synthesizing all that is known about the ecology of fragmented landscapes. Expanding on the traditional coverage of this topic, Collinge also discusses disease ecology, restoration, conservation, and planning. Not since Richard T. T. Forman's classic Land Mosaics has there been a more comprehensive examination of landscape fragmentation. Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes is critical reading for ecologists, conservation biologists, and students alike.
Author : Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T.T. Forman
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036061318
This concise handbook lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world. Chapters cover: patches – size, number, and location edges and boundaries corridors and connectivity mosaics summaries of case studies from around the world
Author : Rina Talgam
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : UCSD:31822038997169
An analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasidmosaics in the Holy Land from the second century B.C.E to eighth century C.E.
Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107199132
A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.
Author : G. W. Bowersock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674022920
In the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East—maps, historical images and religious scenes constituting a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In them, Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride.
Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143176794
Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, exalted by the poets, jewel of the world and heart of an empire. Artisan Caius Crispus receives a summons from the emperor and sets off on a journey toward the Imperial city. But before Crispin can reach Sarantium, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, he must pass through a land of pagan ritual and mysterious danger. In Sailing to Sarantium, the first volume of the brilliant Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay weaves an utterly compelling story of the allure and intrigue of a magnificent city and the people drawn into its spell.
Author : Andrew J. Hansen,Francesco DiCastri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461228042
The emergence of landscape ecology during the 1980s represents an impor tant maturation of ecological theory. Once enamored with the conceptual beauty of well-balanced, homogeneous ecosystems, ecologists now assert that much of the essence of ecological systems lies in their lumpiness. Patches with differing properties and behaviors lie strewn across the land scape, products of the complex interactions of climate, disturbance, and biotic processes. It is the collective behavior of this patchwork of eco systems that drives pattern and process of the landscape. is not an end point This realization of the importance of patch dynamics in itself, however. Rather, it is a passage to a new conceptual framework, the internal workings of which remain obscure. The next tier of questions includes: What are the fundamental pieces that compose a landscape? How are these pieces bounded? To what extent do these boundaries influence communication and interaction among patches of the landscape? Will con sideration of the interactions among landscape elements help us to under stand the workings of landscapes? At the core of these questions lies the notion of the ecotone, a term with a lineage that even predates ecosystem. Late in the nineteenth century, F. E. Clements realized that the transition zones between plant communi ties had properties distinct from either of the adjacent communities. Not until the emergence of patch dynamics theory, however, has central signif icance of the ecotone concept become apparent.
Author : Liz James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108508599
In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.
Author : Forster O. Ndubisi
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610914902
From Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural environment to accommodate our daily needs for food, work, shelter, and recreation are greatly intensified. Concerted efforts to balance human use with ecological concerns are needed now more than ever. A rich body of literature on the effect of human actions on the natural environment provides a window into what we now refer to as ecological design and planning. The study and practice of ecological design and planning provide a promising way to manage change in the landscape so that human actions are more in tune with natural processes. In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader Professor Ndubisi offers refreshing insights into key themes that shape the theory and practice of ecological design and planning. He has assembled, synthesized, and framed selected seminal published scholarly works in the field from the past one hundred and fifty years——ranging from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow to Anne Whiston Spirn’s, “Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities.” The reader ends with a hopeful look forward, which suggests an agenda for future research and analysis in ecological design and planning. This is the first volume to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the history, evolution, theory, methods, and exemplary practice of ecological design and planning. The collection provides students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and our natural environment.
Author : Patricia Witts
Publisher : International
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407358987
This book brings together over 70 prints and drawings from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham (1671-1730). Some are the only records of mosaics that no longer survive, many are published here for the first time.
Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521854466
A pioneering book bulging with promising land patterns for students, planners, conservationists and policy makers.
Author : Richard T.T. Forman,Daniel Sperling,John A. Bissonette,Anthony P. Clevenger,Carol D. Cutshall,Virginia H. Dale,Lenore Fahrig,Robert L. France,Charles R. Goldman,Kevin Heanue,Julia Jones,Frederick Swanson,Thomas Turrentine,Thomas C. Winter
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1559639334
A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficient services with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Awareness of the environmental impacts of roads is increasing, yet information remains scarce for those interested in studying, understanding, or minimizing the ecological effects of roads and vehicles. Road Ecology addresses that shortcoming by elevating previously localized and fragmented knowledge into a broad and inclusive framework for understanding and developing solutions. The book brings together fourteen leading ecologists and transportation experts to articulate state-of-the-science road ecology principles, and presents specific examples that demonstrate the application of those principles. Diverse theories, concepts, and models in the new field of road ecology are integrated to establish a coherent framework for transportation policy, planning, and projects. Topics examined include: foundations of road ecology roads, vehicles, and transportation planning vegetation and roadsides wildlife populations and mitigation water, sediment, and chemical flows aquatic ecosystems wind, noise, and atmospheric effects road networks and landscape fragmentation Road Ecology links ecological theories and concepts with transportation planning, engineering, and travel behavior. With more than 100 illustrations and examples from around the world, it is an indispensable and pioneering work for anyone involved with transportation, including practitioners and planners in state and province transportation departments, federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. The book also opens up an important new research frontier for ecologists.
Author : Travis Beck
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597267021
Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Sustainability means more than just saving energy and resources. It requires integrating the landscapes we design with ecological systems. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice. This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers biogeography and plant selection, assembling plant communities, competition and coexistence, designing ecosystems, materials cycling and soil ecology, plant-animal interactions, biodiversity and stability, disturbance and succession, landscape ecology, and global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape. The demand for this information is rising as professional associations like the American Society of Landscape Architects adopt new sustainability guidelines (SITES). But the need goes beyond certifications and rules. For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.
Author : Michèle Blanchard-Lemée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Decoration and ornament, Roman
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020344201
Some of the finest examples of Roman mosaics survive in Tunisa. The mosaics bring to life the rich dwellings, introducing a civilization which flourished between the first and fifth century AD. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, this book captures the beauty of these floors.