Author: Marc-André Bouchard (M.ATDR.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 184
Book Description
Étude du potentiel de l'aire naturelle d'intérêt canadien de la rivière Manitou en vue de la création d'un parc national
Author: Marc-André Bouchard (M.ATDR.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 184
Book Description
The High-Mountain Cryosphere
Author: Christian Huggel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107065844
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book provides a definitive overview of the global drivers of high-mountain cryosphere change and their implications for people across high-mountain regions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107065844
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book provides a definitive overview of the global drivers of high-mountain cryosphere change and their implications for people across high-mountain regions.
Soil Conservation Districts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Soil and Water Conservation
Author: Boy Scouts of America
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780839532910
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in soil and water conservation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780839532910
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in soil and water conservation.
The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports
Author: Lady Violet Greville
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 178227247X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Published in association with The London Library.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 178227247X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Published in association with The London Library.
Interpreting Nature
Author: I. G. Simmons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134862229
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134862229
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Irrigated Eden
Author: Mark Fiege
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295980133
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295980133
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.
The Fishing in Print
Author: Arnold Gingrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Quebec, Lake St. John and the New Route to the Far-famed Saguenay
Author: Edward Thomas Davies Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Changing the Face of the Earth
Author: I. G. Simmons
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631163510
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This is a history of the human impact upon the natural environment of the Earth. It is a compelling story, the result of many years of original research and scholarship and drawn from work in a wide range of natural and humane disciplines. It covers every kind of culture and society, ranges in time from the earliest social groupings to the present, and considers the short and long-term consequences of current trends. A key argument of the book, and one that informs its structure, is that access to energy is a crucial influence on the way in which we have used and exploited our natural surroundings. If environmental impacts of the discovery of fire were substantial, and of agriculture dramatic, the effects of industrial and technological change over the last two centuries have been revolutionary. Exponential growth in the use of fossil fuels and of the human population mean that our own activities now constitute a critical variable in environmental change. The recent history of the interaction between human kind and nature has become different from the past not only in degree but in kind: and there is a mismatch between our ability to affect and to control the natural environment. These issues form the concluding theme of this outstanding and articulate book.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631163510
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This is a history of the human impact upon the natural environment of the Earth. It is a compelling story, the result of many years of original research and scholarship and drawn from work in a wide range of natural and humane disciplines. It covers every kind of culture and society, ranges in time from the earliest social groupings to the present, and considers the short and long-term consequences of current trends. A key argument of the book, and one that informs its structure, is that access to energy is a crucial influence on the way in which we have used and exploited our natural surroundings. If environmental impacts of the discovery of fire were substantial, and of agriculture dramatic, the effects of industrial and technological change over the last two centuries have been revolutionary. Exponential growth in the use of fossil fuels and of the human population mean that our own activities now constitute a critical variable in environmental change. The recent history of the interaction between human kind and nature has become different from the past not only in degree but in kind: and there is a mismatch between our ability to affect and to control the natural environment. These issues form the concluding theme of this outstanding and articulate book.