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Nature's Geography

Author : Karl S. Zimmerer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299159146
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Geography written by Karl S. Zimmerer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are increasingly influenced by human-induced environmental changes. It is crucial that sustainable development be based on insights into these expanding processes--conservation as well as deterioration. Nature's Geography offers a new perspective on the geographical nature of these changes. The book reveals how human-environment relations must be understood at multiple scales and time frames. Editors Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young have forged an exciting group of case studies from distinguished geographers focusing on high mountains, tropical forests, and lowlands, as well as humid and arid-semiarid landscapes. Each chapter analyzes the implications for meshing environmental protection and sound resource use with development. The case studies evaluate three topics: spatial habitat fragmentation and forest dynamics; disturbances in mountain ecosystems; and the major activities of settled areas, chiefly farming, livestock-raising, and forestry. Included are analyses of interactions involving wildlife, such as primates and wild pandas; assessment of fire impacts and road-building; long-term forest management as well as recent techniques; and the role of environmental variation and ecosystem properties in agriculture and rangeland. Nature's Geography demonstrates the vital importance of advancing a new approach to geography. This definitive study of landscape change and environmental dynamics will have wide appeal for those interested in geography, ecology, environmental studies, conservation biology, and development studies.

The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands

Author : Walter M. Goldberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319695320
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands written by Walter M. Goldberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, animals, people, and the environment in shaping the tropical Pacific through a cross-disciplinary approach involving history, geography, biology, environmental science, and anthropology. With these diverse scientific perspectives, the eight chapters of the book provide a comprehensive overview of Tropical Pacific Islands from their initial colonization by native peoples to their occupation by colonial powers, and the contemporary changes that have affected the natural history and social fabric of these islands. The Tropical Pacific Islands are introduced by a description of their geological formation, development, and geography. From there, the book details the origins of the island's original peoples and the dawn of the political economy of these islands, including the domestication and trade of plants, animals, and other natural resources. Next, readers will learn about the impact of missionaries on Pacific Islands, and the affects of Wold War II and nuclear testing on natural resources and the health of its people. The final chapter discusses the islands in the context of natural resource extraction, population increases, and global climate change. Working together these factors are shown to affect rainfall and limited water resources, as well as the ability to sustain traditional crops, and the capacity of the islands to accomodate its residents.

Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557866813
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference written by David Harvey and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-01-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences are produced, and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space, and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work. Part II examines how "nature" and "environment" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks, from this basis, to make sense of contemporary environmental issues. Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography and culture, explores the meaning of the social "production" of space and time, and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and "difference". The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in the pace and quality of urbanization. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order.

Nature

Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134302150
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Nature written by Noel Castree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and hazards geography. The first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole, this distinctive text looks at all its major meanings, from the human body and psyche through to the non-human world, and develops the argument that student readers should abandon the idea of knowing what nature is in favour of a close scrutiny of what agendas lie behind competing conceptions of it. It deals with, amongst others, the following areas: the idea of nature the 'nature' of geography de-naturalization and re-naturalization after-nature. As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Synthesizing a wealth of diverse and complex information, this text makes the significant theories, debates and information on nature accessible to students of geography, environmental studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies

Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perspective on the Nature of Geography

Author : Richard Hartshorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perspective on the Nature of Geography written by Richard Hartshorne and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography

Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Geography of Plants

Author : Marcel E. Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Plants written by Marcel E. Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Geography

Author : Hugh Robert Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The International Geography written by Hugh Robert Mill and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Human Geography

Author : Paul Vidal de La Blache
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Human Geography written by Paul Vidal de La Blache and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rediscovering Geography

Author : Rediscovering Geography Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309577624
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Geography written by Rediscovering Geography Committee and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.

Handbook of Commercial Geography

Author : George Goudie Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Commercial Geography written by George Goudie Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Changing Nature of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author : Roger Minshull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317906349
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Nature of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) written by Roger Minshull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the nature of geography. There are detailed sections on content, methods and purposes and an attempt is made to distinguish progress from those changes which are merely fashion and those which result in genuine progress. One of these, resulting partly from the adoption of quantitative techniques, is the improvement in the accuracy and the type of explanation which the geographer is now able to give. The new techniques have also helped in the bringing about of profound changes in geographical laws, the use of models and even the relevance of determinism.

The Geography of Nature

Author : Vulliet (M., Adam)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Nature written by Vulliet (M., Adam) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nature of Geography

Author : Richard Hartshorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Geography written by Richard Hartshorne and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Geography of Nature; Or, the World As It Is

Author : M. (Adam) Vulliet
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290845267
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Nature; Or, the World As It Is written by M. (Adam) Vulliet and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119250625
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Environmental Geography by : Noel Castree

Download or read book A Companion to Environmental Geography written by Noel Castree and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography