Author: Kerstin Alm Kübler
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Holocene Environmental Change of Southern Öland, Sweden
Author: Kerstin Alm Kübler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Large-scale Livestock Grazing
Author: Harald Plachter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540686673
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, nature-adapted pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. These systems could offer an alternative to industrial livestock raising and keep a high biodiversity on the landscape level. Against the background of livestock diseases such as BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease and the efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU by changing the criteria for agricultural subsidies, these concepts gain particular significance.They could also represent an alternative to the established, costly habitat management tools.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540686673
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, nature-adapted pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. These systems could offer an alternative to industrial livestock raising and keep a high biodiversity on the landscape level. Against the background of livestock diseases such as BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease and the efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU by changing the criteria for agricultural subsidies, these concepts gain particular significance.They could also represent an alternative to the established, costly habitat management tools.
Designing Space-time Codes Using Orthogonal Designs
Author: Girish Ganesan
Publisher:
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Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Environmental Changes in Fennoscandia During the Late Quaternary
Author: Per Sandgren
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A Concept for Vegetation Studies and Monitoring in the Nordic Countries
Author: Jonas Erik Lawesson
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289304344
Category : Plant ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289304344
Category : Plant ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape
Author: F. M. Chambers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401091765
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A. G. Smith - one of the leading researchers in Holocene palaeoecology. A. G. Smith took his first degree at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1951 with a first-class honours degree in Botany. His doctorate was awarded in 1956 for a study in late-Quaternary vege tational history, based in the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of the late Sir Harry Godwin, FRS. He then researched and taught at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1954, leading the Nuffield Quaternary Research Unit there, becoming Co-Director of the Palaeoecology Laboratory from 1964. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Botany (later, Plant Science) at University College, Cardiff, in 1973, and retired from the School of Pure and Applied Biology at the renamed University of Wales College, Cardiff, in August 1991. Although his principal interests have been concerned with the post-glacial environmental history of the British Isles, Professor Smith has significantly in fluenced many researchers elsewhere in their interpretation of biological and other evidence for human modification of the natural environment.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401091765
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A. G. Smith - one of the leading researchers in Holocene palaeoecology. A. G. Smith took his first degree at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1951 with a first-class honours degree in Botany. His doctorate was awarded in 1956 for a study in late-Quaternary vege tational history, based in the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of the late Sir Harry Godwin, FRS. He then researched and taught at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1954, leading the Nuffield Quaternary Research Unit there, becoming Co-Director of the Palaeoecology Laboratory from 1964. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Botany (later, Plant Science) at University College, Cardiff, in 1973, and retired from the School of Pure and Applied Biology at the renamed University of Wales College, Cardiff, in August 1991. Although his principal interests have been concerned with the post-glacial environmental history of the British Isles, Professor Smith has significantly in fluenced many researchers elsewhere in their interpretation of biological and other evidence for human modification of the natural environment.
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Bibliography and Index of Geology
Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
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Tutkimusraportti
Author:
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Category : Finland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Finland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East
Author: Peter F. Biehl
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438461836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East. The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change through the lens of new archaeological and paleo-environmental data over the course of more than 10,000 years from the Near East to Europe. Key climatic and other events are contextualized with cultural changes and transitions for which the authors discuss when, how, and if, changes in climate and environment caused people to adapt, move or perish. More than this publication of crucial archaeological and paleo-environmental data, however, the volume seeks to understand the social, political and economic significance of climate change as it was manifested in various ways around the Old World. Contrary to perceptions of threatening global warming in our popular media, and in contrast to grim images of collapse presented in some archaeological discussions of past climate change, this book rejects outright societal collapse as a likely outcome. Yet this does not keep the authors from considering climate change as a potential factor in explaining culture change by adopting a critical stance with regard to the long-standing practice of equating synchronicity with causality, and explicitly considering alternative explanations.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438461836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East. The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change through the lens of new archaeological and paleo-environmental data over the course of more than 10,000 years from the Near East to Europe. Key climatic and other events are contextualized with cultural changes and transitions for which the authors discuss when, how, and if, changes in climate and environment caused people to adapt, move or perish. More than this publication of crucial archaeological and paleo-environmental data, however, the volume seeks to understand the social, political and economic significance of climate change as it was manifested in various ways around the Old World. Contrary to perceptions of threatening global warming in our popular media, and in contrast to grim images of collapse presented in some archaeological discussions of past climate change, this book rejects outright societal collapse as a likely outcome. Yet this does not keep the authors from considering climate change as a potential factor in explaining culture change by adopting a critical stance with regard to the long-standing practice of equating synchronicity with causality, and explicitly considering alternative explanations.