Author: Cheryl Kollin
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Category : Trees in cities
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Richard James Hauer
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Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Category : Arboriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Jun Yang
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Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Victor A. Rudis
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Paul R. Josephson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898412
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, ”I have seen the future, and it works.” Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant—figuratively and literally—into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea—and other leaders—joined Russia’s Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and conviction that rivaled the western world's. Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology—and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive. Instead of achieving a worker’s paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual—and exhausting—burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of communism’s self-proclaimed glorious quest to "reach and surpass" the West. Josephson’s intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.

Author: John T. Van Stan, II
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030297020
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context. It describes the processes by which meteoric water comes into contact with the vegetation's canopy, typically the first surface contact of precipitation on land. It also discusses how precipitation partitioning by vegetation impacts the amount, patterning, and chemistry of water reaching the surface, as well as the amount and timing of evaporative return to the atmosphere. Although this process has been extensively studied, this is the first review of the global literature on the partitioning of precipitation by forests, shrubs, crops, grasslands and other less-studies plant types. The authors offer global contextualization combined with a detailed discussion of the impacts for the climate and terrestrial ecohydrological systems. As such, this comprehensive overview is a valuable reference tool for a wide range of specialists and students in the fields of geoscience and the environment.

Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324

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Author: Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.