Author: Graham Humphrys
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.
Presenting and Representing Environments
Author: Graham Humphrys
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.
An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present
Author: Marianna Dudley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441192425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A history of the military use of the landscape and the rise of military environmentalism through the twentieth century.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441192425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A history of the military use of the landscape and the rise of military environmentalism through the twentieth century.
Exploring Environmental History
Author: T. C. Smout
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748635149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748635149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.
Moorlands of England and Wales
Author: Simmons Ian G Simmons
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472613
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is a history of the moorlands and the part they have played in English and Welsh history over ten millennia. Ian Simmons combines the perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography, and draws on forty years of exploring and studying the moorlands. Starting with a description of their origins and how they have changed under the impact of human and natural forces, Simmons shows how perceptions of the moors have been influenced by writers, artists and the media (and how they have been inspired by the moors), and how these perceptions have resulted in great changes in attitudes to moorland use and management. The book begins by offering some concise understanding of the physical and natural characteristics of moorlands. It then gives an account of how hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic period altered their surroundings using fire. It describes how millennia of agricultural production wrought distinctive moorland landscapes and how these in turn were affected and sometimes transformed by industrialisation, afforestation and changes in farming methods. The renewed impetus in the twentieth century for environmental management and conservation brings the story near to the present. The North Pennines, Dartmoor and South Wales are the subject of detailed accounts that reveal the common characteristics of the moorlands as well as their marked contrasts. Beyond the recent crises of overgrazing and the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, Ian Simmons lays out some possible futures for the moors.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472613
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is a history of the moorlands and the part they have played in English and Welsh history over ten millennia. Ian Simmons combines the perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography, and draws on forty years of exploring and studying the moorlands. Starting with a description of their origins and how they have changed under the impact of human and natural forces, Simmons shows how perceptions of the moors have been influenced by writers, artists and the media (and how they have been inspired by the moors), and how these perceptions have resulted in great changes in attitudes to moorland use and management. The book begins by offering some concise understanding of the physical and natural characteristics of moorlands. It then gives an account of how hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic period altered their surroundings using fire. It describes how millennia of agricultural production wrought distinctive moorland landscapes and how these in turn were affected and sometimes transformed by industrialisation, afforestation and changes in farming methods. The renewed impetus in the twentieth century for environmental management and conservation brings the story near to the present. The North Pennines, Dartmoor and South Wales are the subject of detailed accounts that reveal the common characteristics of the moorlands as well as their marked contrasts. Beyond the recent crises of overgrazing and the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, Ian Simmons lays out some possible futures for the moors.
A Gazetteer of the World
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions by J. R. McCulloch
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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A Statistical Account of the British Empire
Author: John Ramsay M'Culloch
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
A descriptive and statistical account of the British empire
Author: John Ramsay M'Culloch
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Geographical reader
Author: Philip George and son, ltd
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The world
Author: Leonard Brooks
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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