Author: Heron Marquez
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822509370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A historical and current look at Russia, discussing the land, the government, the people, and the economy.
Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (the Former USSR)
Author: S. K. Czerepanov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This book contains a modern, critical, list of all the vascular plants found in the vast territory of the former USSR.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This book contains a modern, critical, list of all the vascular plants found in the vast territory of the former USSR.
Eurasian Environments
Author: Nicholas Breyfogle
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.
The Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309076188
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309076188
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States.
The Far North:
Author: Elena I. Troeva
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048137748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia. These systems are very special in that they function on top of huge layers of permafrost and are exposed to very severe and extreme weather conditions, the range between winter and summer temperatures being more than 100 degrees C. The soils are generally poor, and human use of the vegetation is usually extensive. Main vegetation zones are taiga and tundra, but Yakutia also supports a special land and vegetation form, caused by permafrost, the alas: more or less extensive grasslands around roundish lakes in taiga. All these vegetation types will be described and their ecology and ecophysiological characteristics will be dealt with. Because of the size of Yakutia, covering several climatic zones, and its extreme position on ecological gradients, Yakutia contains very interesting biogeographical patterns, which also will be described. Our analyses are drawn from many years of research in Yakutia and from a vast body of ecological and other literature in Russian publications and in unpublished local reports. The anthropogenic influence on the ecosystems will be dealt with. This includes the main activities of human interference with nature: forestry, extensive reindeer herding, cattle and horse grazing, etc. Also fire and other prominent ecological factors are dealt with. A very important point is also the very high degree of naturalness that is still extant in Yakutia’s main vegetation zones.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048137748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia. These systems are very special in that they function on top of huge layers of permafrost and are exposed to very severe and extreme weather conditions, the range between winter and summer temperatures being more than 100 degrees C. The soils are generally poor, and human use of the vegetation is usually extensive. Main vegetation zones are taiga and tundra, but Yakutia also supports a special land and vegetation form, caused by permafrost, the alas: more or less extensive grasslands around roundish lakes in taiga. All these vegetation types will be described and their ecology and ecophysiological characteristics will be dealt with. Because of the size of Yakutia, covering several climatic zones, and its extreme position on ecological gradients, Yakutia contains very interesting biogeographical patterns, which also will be described. Our analyses are drawn from many years of research in Yakutia and from a vast body of ecological and other literature in Russian publications and in unpublished local reports. The anthropogenic influence on the ecosystems will be dealt with. This includes the main activities of human interference with nature: forestry, extensive reindeer herding, cattle and horse grazing, etc. Also fire and other prominent ecological factors are dealt with. A very important point is also the very high degree of naturalness that is still extant in Yakutia’s main vegetation zones.
Russian Central Asia
Author: Henry Lansdell
Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
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WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336).
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Languages : en
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Russia in Pictures
Author: Heron Marquez
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822509370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A historical and current look at Russia, discussing the land, the government, the people, and the economy.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822509370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A historical and current look at Russia, discussing the land, the government, the people, and the economy.
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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