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Author : United States. National Park Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conservation Quotes written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enric Sala
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426221029
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Nature written by Enric Sala and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
Author : Zett Why
Publisher : INTERNET IDEAS LTD
ISBN 13 : 1620506408
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book 52 Quotes to live by written by Zett Why and published by INTERNET IDEAS LTD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Turkel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140981X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Spark from the Deep written by William J. Turkel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.
Author : John H. Sprinkle, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497414
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Saving Spaces written by John H. Sprinkle, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in the United States. John Sprinkle, Jr. identifies the ways in which the identification, evaluation, and stewardship of selected buildings and landscapes reflect contemporary American cultural values. Detailed case studies bring the text to life, highlighting various conservation strategies and suggesting the opportunities, challenges, and consequences of each. Balancing close analyses with a broader introduction to some of the key issues of the field, Saving Spaces is ideal for students and instructors of historic preservation.
Author : Jennifer Coopersmith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057517
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Energy, the Subtle Concept written by Jennifer Coopersmith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In tracking the history of energy, this book is filled with the thrill of the chase, the mystery of smoke and mirrors, and presents a fascinating human-interest story. Moreover, following the history provides a crucial aid to understanding: this book explains the intellectual revolutions required to comprehend energy, revolutions as profound as those stemming from Relativity and Quantum Theory. Texts by Descartes, Leibniz, Bernoulli, d'Alembert, Lagrange, Hamilton, Boltzmann, Clausius, Carnot and others are made accessible, and the engines of Watt and Joule are explained. Many fascinating questions are covered, including: - Why just kinetic and potential energies - is one more fundamental than the other? - What are heat, temperature and action? - What is the Hamiltonian? - What have engines to do with physics? - Why did the steam-engine evolve only in England? - Why S=klogW works and why temperature is IT. Using only a minimum of mathematics, this book explains the emergence of the modern concept of energy, in all its forms: Hamilton's mechanics and how it shaped twentieth-century physics, and the meaning of kinetic energy, potential energy, temperature, action, and entropy. It is as much an explanation of fundamental physics as a history of the fascinating discoveries that lie behind our knowledge today.
Author : Gordon M. Winder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317391616
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Trading Environments written by Gordon M. Winder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been the successes and failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe, North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects on frontiers.
Author : Maureen Wieland
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666923648
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Conservation, Preservation, and Recreation at Glacier National Park written by Maureen Wieland and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tensions in communicating the National Park Service's mission to both conserve and preserve nature while also offering recreational experiences to the public. Through qualitative interviews and observations, the author discusses climate change, policy change, and environmental education at Glacier National Park.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lumber World Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information. PRESS SERVICE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Daily Digest written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information. PRESS SERVICE and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy H. Behnke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364216014X
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The End of Desertification? written by Roy H. Behnke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world.
Author : Allan R. Ruff
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686662
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Arcadian Visions written by Allan R. Ruff and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world. Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.
Author : Gregory Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Consuming Nature written by Gregory Summers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers to Wisconsin's Fox River Valley more than fifty years ago to recount how technological and economic progress contributed to residents' growing opposition to the industrial pollution of the river.
Author : Carl F Jordan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030851869
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective written by Carl F Jordan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival of the fittest” is a tautology, because those that are “fit” are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be “fit”. Modern evolutionary theory avoids the problem by defining fitness as reproductive success, but the complexity of life that we see today could not have evolved based on selection that favors only reproductive ability. There is nothing inherent in reproductive success alone that could result in higher forms of life. Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective presents a non-circular definition of fitness and a thermodynamic definition of evolution. Fitness means maximization of power output, necessary to survive in a competitive world. Evolution is the “storage of entropy”. “Entropy storage” means that solar energy, instead of dissipating as heat in the Earth, is stored in the structure of living organisms and ecosystems. Part one explains this in terms comprehensible to a scientific audience beyond biophysicists and ecosystem modelers. Part two applies thermodynamic theory in non-esoteric language to sustainability of agriculture, and to conservation of endangered species. While natural systems are stabilized by feedback, agricultural systems remain in a mode of perpetual growth, pressured by balance of trade and by a swelling population. The constraints imposed by thermodynamic laws are being increasingly felt as economic expansion destabilizes resource systems on which expansion depends.
Author : John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312307448
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book And I Quote, Revised Edition written by Ashton Applewhite and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular guide to quotable quotes returns in a totally revised and updatededition including all-new material.
