Wilder Lives: Humans and our Environments, Duncan Brown
Автор: Enrique Murgui; Marcus Hedblom Название: Ecology and conservation of birds in urban environments ISBN: 3319433121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319433127 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 186330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the urban matrix. Authored by leading scientists in this emergent field, the chapters explore how the characteristics of the habitat in urban environments influence bird communities and populations at multiple levels of ecological organization and at different spatial and temporal scales, and how this information should be incorporated in urban planning to achieve an effective conservation of bird fauna in urban environments.
Birds are among the most conspicuous and fascinating residents of urban neighborhoods and provide urban citizens with everyday wildlife contact all over the world. However, present urbanization trends are rapidly depleting their habitats, and thus knowledge of urban bird ecology is urgently needed if birds are to thrive in cities.
The book is unique in its inclusion of examples from all continents (except Antarctica) in an effort to arrive at a more holistic perspective. Among other issues, the individual chapters address the censusing of birds in urban green spaces; the relationship between bird communities and the structure of urban green spaces; the role of exotic plant species as food sources for urban bird fauna; the influence of artificial light and pollutants on bird fauna; trends in long-term urban bird research, and transdisciplinary studies on bird sounds and their effects on humans. Several chapters investigate how our current knowledge of the ecology of urban bird fauna should be applied in order to achieve better management of urban habitats so as to achieve conservation of species or even increase species diversity. The book also provides a forward-looking summary on potential research directions. As such, it provides a valuable resource for urban ecologists, urban ecology students, landscape architects, city planners, decision makers and anyone with an interest in urban ornithology and bird conservation. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive overview for researchers in the fields of ecology and conservation of urban bird fauna.
Автор: Myers Garth Название: Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics ISBN: 1447322916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447322917 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 105590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores the impact of Africa`s rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.
Автор: Myers Garth Название: Urban Environments in Africa ISBN: 1447322924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447322924 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 36950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores the impact of Africa`s rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.
Автор: Ananta, Bauer & Thant Название: Environments Of The Poor In Southeast Asia, East Asia And The Pacific ISBN: 9814517992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814517997 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides examples of possible triple-win solutions for simultaneously reducing poverty, raising the quality of the environment, and adapting to climate change. The book provides empirical evidence and observations from sixteen case studies in Southeast and East Asia, and from the Pacific. It argues that a spatial approach focussing on the environments in which the poor and vulnerable live, would trigger changes for development policies and implementation that better balance environmental and social concerns. In line with the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, emphasizing integrated development approaches for the slum poor, the upland poor, the dryland poor, the coastal poor, and the flood-affected wetland poor, would also bring the environment and poverty agenda closer.The book emerged from a cooperation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in partnership with experts from research institutes and think-tanks in the Asian region.
Автор: Weik Von Mossner Alexa Название: Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film ISBN: 1771120029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771120029 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 50050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Investigates how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers` emotions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes.
Автор: Irby Beverly J Название: Gender and Early Learning Environments ISBN: 1617353272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617353277 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Encompasses a wide range of topics addressing early childhood influences on gender and development of the whole child. For early childhood educators, this book aides in making visible and exploring the definition of what gender means in contemporary culture.
Автор: Breyfogle Nicholas Название: Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History ISBN: 0822965631 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965633 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 60370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Broad Look at the Environmental History of Eurasia
Автор: Hall C. Michael Prof, Saarinen Jarkko Название: Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environments and Experiences ISBN: 1138880663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138880665 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 58170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The world's polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming accessible with direct flights. Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are being opened up to tourism development they are being affected by a number of new factors that are interconnected to travel and tourism. Climate change, landscape and species loss, increasing interest in energy resources and minerals, social changes in indigenous societies, and a new polar geopolitics all bring into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them.
This timely volume provides a contemporary account of tourism and its impacts in polar regions. It explores the development and prospects of polar tourism, as well as tourism's impacts and associated change at high latitudes from environmental, economic, social and political perspectives. It draws on cutting edge research from both the Arctic and Antarctic to provide a comparative review and illustrate the real life issues arising from tourism's role in these regions. Integrating theory and practice the book fully evaluates varying perspectives on polar tourism and proposes actions that could be taken by local and global management to achieve a sustainable future for polar regions and development of tourism.
This complete and current account of polar tourism issues is written by an international team of leading researchers in this area and will have global appeal to higher level students, researchers, academics in Tourism, Environmental Studies, Arctic/Polar Studies and conservation enthusiasts alike.
Автор: Irby Beverly J Название: Gender and Early Learning Environments ISBN: 1617353280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617353284 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 89530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Encompasses a wide range of topics addressing early childhood influences on gender and development of the whole child. For early childhood educators, this book aides in making visible and exploring the definition of what gender means in contemporary culture.
Автор: Lauritz Somme Название: Invertebrates in Hot and Cold Arid Environments ISBN: 3642795854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642795855 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 113190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comparison of the adaptations made by invertebrates in polar deserts with those of temperate and subtropical deserts. Similarly, temperate desert invertebrates have adapted to dry conditions and are also exposed to low winter temperatures.
Автор: Hastrup Kirsten, Hastrup Frida Название: Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments ISBN: 1785337351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785337352 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 31970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
Автор: Eyles, John Baxter, Assoc Prof Jamie Название: Environments, risks and health ISBN: 147241019X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472410191 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions and the social geographical challenges of the human health-environments linkages. Offering the first comprehensive and cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field, this book focuses on how humans theorize their relationships to the environment with respect to health and how these ideas are mediated through an evaluation of risk and hazards. Most work on risk has focused primarily on environmental problems. This book extends and synthesizes these works for the field of human health, treating social, economic, cultural and political context as vital. Bringing disparate literatures from across several disciplines together with their own applied research and experience, John Eyles and Jamie Baxter deal with scientific uncertainty in the everyday issues raised and question how social theories and models of the way the world works can contribute to understanding these uncertainties. This book is essential reading for those studying and researching in the fields of health geography and environmental studies as well as environmental sociology, social and applied anthropology, environmental psychology and environmental politics.
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