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Author : Chih Min Boo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810880712
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Plants in Tropical Cities written by Chih Min Boo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diego Molina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040148646
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Planting a City in the Tropical Andes written by Diego Molina and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants – showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a ‘floristic island’ formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants. Urbanisation is one of the main forces behind biodiversity loss. Paradoxically, the expansion of cities has made urban environment spaces with a greater numbers of plant species compared to their surrounding areas. Planting a City in the Tropical Andes takes a multidisciplinary approach to shed light on the cultural and ecological mechanisms that have transformed modern cities into what can be described as ‘floristic islands’. By drawing upon a wide array of historical sources, this book explains how the 19th-century modernization of Bogotá (Colombia), led to the replacement of traditional botanical practices with technical knowledge, which in turn endowed the city with a unique floristic inventory. Through a unique botanical perspective on Latin American urban history, this book uncovers how capitalist dynamics in Bogotá transformed plants into providers of clean air and water and their use in the urban landscape contributed to the cultivation of disciplined citizenry. Placing plants at the forefront of its narrative, the book offers an original contribution to the underexplored history of horticulture in tropical Latin America. It serves as a compelling example of how the creative and conflicting forces of the Anthropocene have forged new environments and previously unseen relationships between people and plants. This volume will be of great use to scholars and students interested in social history, urban environmental histories and cultural history.
Author : Pam Baggett
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 0881929476
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Tropicalismo! written by Pam Baggett and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your garden lack zing? Are your borders a bore? Spice them up with a touch of the tropics! Tropical plants bring sizzle to every garden. Bananas in Maine, cannas in CanadaÑthese plants can be grown everywhere. Whether used in containers or planted directly in the ground, their bold leaves and over-the-top flowers create instant drama. Pam Baggett chooses 100 of the best tropical plants and shows readers how to grow them, how to combine them with other plants, and how to make eye-popping compositions of color and pattern. Love flaming orange? Try cannas, lantanas, and 'Fire Dragon' coleus. Screaming magenta more your taste? Go for hot-pink four o'clocks, bloodleaf, and 'Cranberry Punch' pentas. If you're passionate about purple, grab princess flower, Brazilian skyflower, and 'Purple Majesty' sage. ÁTropicalismo! offers hundreds of ideas for turning gardens, decks, and patios into a visual fiesta. A taste of the tropics is all it takes to turn your garden into a paradise.
Author : Simona Azzali
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813346310
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Tropical Constrained Environments and Sustainable Adaptations written by Simona Azzali and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people’s lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically. Constrained environments are unique territories characterised by challenging circumstances, limited land and natural resources. They can be places with a small municipal boundary or cities in which parts around them may be consumed by ocean, bay or mountains. Those places face hard physical boundaries like coastlines and mountains, which in addition to policy decisions that may limit height or density, can also serve to limit capacity for expansion. Successful communities and businesses tend to survive in a changing environment given their strong intuitive and forward-looking adaptations. This book delves into the role of urban planning and design in the promotion of business and adaptations of people and communities. Additionally, the focus takes into account impact analysis and the effects of an expanding populations, including growing migrant flows, and business needs on the built environment of land-constrained territories
Author : Sachchidanand Tripathi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000961370
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ecophysiology of Tropical Plants written by Sachchidanand Tripathi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants in tropical regions are coping with enormous challenges of physiological stresses owing to changing environmental and climatic conditions. Rapid growth of human population and rampant exploitation of fossil fuels and other developmental activities are actively contributing to such perturbations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected a sustained increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and thereby a rise in global temperature in the coming decades. The resultant changes in precipitation patterns are now evident across the globe due to intensication of hydrological cycle. Moreover, gaseous and particulate pollutants are also an immense challenge for tropical plants. Such vagaries in environmental conditions have signicant impacts on the ecophysiological traits of plants, resulting from altered interactions of tropical plants with each other, as well as other biotic and abiotic components within the ecosystem. Books available in the market that particularly focus on ecophysiological responses of tropical plants to abiotic and biotic environmental factors under climate change are limited. This book intends to fill this knowledge gap and provides a detailed analysis on ecophysiological responses of tropical plants to these environmental challenges, as well as suggesting some approachable measures for plant adaptations to these challenges. The book is equally applicable to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, teachers and forest managers, and policy makers. Salient features of the book are: 1. A comprehensive discussion on adaptive mechanisms of plants through their ecophysiological responses to various biotic and abiotic stresses. 2. Elaboration on the recent techniques involved in ecophysiological research. 3. A detailed account of evolutionary responses of plants to changing climate. 4. Discussion of recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in ecophysiological research. 5. Presentation of information in a way that is accessible for students, researchers, and teachers practicing in plant physiology and ecology.
Author : Eric Toensmeier
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584005
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Paradise Lot written by Eric Toensmeier and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.
Author : R E. Spichiger
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 042953020X
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants written by R E. Spichiger and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle objective of this book is to describe a range of families of flowering plants in a sequence corresponding to current phylogenetic classification based on the most recent results of molecular systematics. The selection of families is large and comprises families of temperate European flora as well as tropical flora. They are integrated in their respective orders and keys are given to help the reader recognize them. Each family is richly illustrated, the identifying characters being shown as clearly as possible. A glossary complements the overall didactic qualities of this reference.
Author : Marion Ernwein
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839455340
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Work That Plants Do written by Marion Ernwein and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.
Author : Thomas Schröpfer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 303561511X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Dense + Green Cities written by Thomas Schröpfer and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which ways does a "green building" contribute to the ecology of its surroundings? And how can ecologically designed urban districts, with their green and blue networks, link up with the elements and technologies of building design? All dimensions of "green building" are investigated in this book in an effort to understand and evaluate some of the most recent and innovative Dense+Green Cities in Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Author : Lily Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810959135
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (591 download)
Download or read book One Thousand and One Garden Plants in Singapore written by Lily Chen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharina Kreissig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 366258817X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Identify Common Tropical and Subtropical Ornamental Plants by Flower Colour written by Katharina Kreissig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical, compact guide for the identification of common tropical and subtropical ornamental plants by flower colour. It is intended for anyone who is interested in plants and would like to get to know the attractive flowering plants of warm regions while travelling. Certainly everyone in a foreign country has at some point admired a particularly exotic flower and wished to know which plant it is. With appealing photos and comprehensible texts, this book provides the answer - quickly and easily. The author is an experienced tour guide and is regularly asked for eye-catching, ornamental plants on the way. She photographed the frequently requested plants and arranged them according to colour in this nature guide. This book is also suitable for beginners without previous botanical knowledge due to its illustrations and simple sorting.
Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007003
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Urban Ecology written by Richard T. T. Forman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.
Author : F. Halle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642811906
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Tropical Trees and Forests written by F. Halle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Ng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136546006
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Designing High-Density Cities written by Edward Ng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental improvements that support higher quality of life in cities. Encouraging, even requiring, higher density urban development is a major policy and a central principle of growth management programmes used by planners around the world. However, such density creates design challenges and problems. A collection of experts in each of the related architectural and planning areas examines these environmental and social issues, and argues that high-density cities are a sustainable solution. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Lippincott's Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Guide to America; a Treasury of Information about Its States, Cities, Parks, and Historical Points of Interest written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nyuk Hien Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113422110X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Tropical Urban Heat Islands written by Nyuk Hien Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex relationships between climate, buildings and plants, especially in urban heat islands to form a reference for researchers and professionals.
