Автор: Claxton Mae Miller, Frizzell George Название: Horace Kephart: Writings ISBN: 1621905411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621905417 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century. Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzell, Horace Kephart: Writings extends past Kephart's two well-read works of the early 1900s and dives into his correspondence with friends across the globe, articles and columns in national magazines, unpublished manuscripts, journal entries, and fiction in order to shed some deserved light on Kephart's classic image as a storyteller and practical guide to the Smokies. The book is divided into thematic subsections that call attention to the variety in Kephart's writings, its nine chapters featuring Kephart's works on camping and woodcraft, guns, southern Appalachian culture, fiction, the Cherokee, scouting, and the park and Appalachian trail. Each chapter is accompanied by an introductory essay by a notable Appalachian scholar providing context and background to the included works. Written for scholars interested in Appalachian culture and history, followers of the modern outdoor movement, students enamored of the Great Smoky Mountains, and general readers alike, Horace Kephart: Writings gathers a plethora of little-known and rarely seen material that illustrates the diversity and richness found in Kephart's work.
Автор: Tripp Erin, Lendemer James Название: Field Guide to the Lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park ISBN: 1621905144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621905141 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With 909 recognized species of lichens, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) is home to more of these lichenized fungi than any other national park in the United States, as well as nearly half of all species known to occur in eastern North America. There is a great deal of room for scientific exploration, inquiry, and systematic description in the realm of lichenology. In Field Guide to the Lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Erin Tripp and James Lendemer take on the formidable task of creating an all-in-one resource for Park exploration, including lichen distribution maps, tools for identification, vivid photographs and illustrations, and even field notes from their own research campaigns. In the process, the authors create a touchstone for lichen taxonomy and ecology, and they inspire others—researchers as well as casual observers—to take interest in the incredible biodiversity of the Great Smoky Mountains. Biologists, botanists, visitors to the park, naturalists, and others interested in the flora and fauna of both the southern Appalachians and GSMNP will thoroughly enjoy this lovingly prepared field guide.
Название: Mountain Agriculture: Opportunities for Harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia ISBN: 9251316805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789251316801 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 81310.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Focuses on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable mountain agriculture development to achieve Zero Hunger in Asia. The report analyses how mountain agriculture could contribute to satisfying all four dimensions of food security by making food systems nutrition-sensitive, climate-resilient, economically viable and locally adaptable.
Автор: Wohl Ellen Название: Something Hidden in the Ranges: The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems ISBN: 0870711059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780870711053 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24950.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Designed for readers interested in natural and environmental history and specifically the natural history of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. This book draws on a wide array of scientific research to tell stories such as how streams provide energy to the adjacent forest, and how a network of fungi keeps forests healthy.
Название: Mountains: physical, human-environmental, and sociocultural dynamics ISBN: 036789050X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367890506 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book highlights new understanding of mountain environments and mountain peoples around the world, drawing on a wide spectrum of researchers from different parts of the world. It first published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Автор: Jeffries & Wentworth Название: Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests ISBN: 1469618206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469618203 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of experience guiding forest walks throughout the region, Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth invite hikers and nature lovers to see their surroundings in new ways.
Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship between these volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest.
O. Alan Weltzien demonstrates how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor recreation industry’s unrestricted and problematic growth. He explores the implications of our assumptions that there are no limits to our outdoor recreation habits and that access to the highest mountains should include amenities for affluent consumers. Each chapter probes the mountain-based regional ethos and the concomitant sense of privilege and entitlement from different vantages to illuminate the consumerist mind-set as a reductive—and deeply problematic—version of experience and identity in and around some of the nation’s most striking mountains.
Автор: Peters Clinton Crockett Название: Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan ISBN: 0820358533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820358536 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Chronicles Clinton Crockett Peters` travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan`s Chichibu Mountains. Ultimately, this collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?
Автор: Davis Donald Edward Название: Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians ISBN: 082035838X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820358383 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 45450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment.
Автор: Graham Sean P. Название: Kennesaw: Natural History of a Southern Mountain ISBN: 0817359990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817359997 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23100.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the US. Kennesaw: Natural History of a Southern Mountain provides a comprehensive exploration of the entire park punctuated with humour, colourful anecdotes, and striking photographs of the landscape.
Автор: Mark C.J. Stoddart Название: Making Meaning Out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing ISBN: 0774821965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774821964 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 89230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Mountains bear the imprint of human activity. Scars from logging andsurface mining sit alongside national parks and ski lodges. Althoughthe environmental effects of extractive industries are well known,skiing is more likely to bring to mind images of luxury, wealth, andhealth. Drawing on interviews, field observations, and media analysis,Stoddart reveals the multiple, often conflicting meanings attached toskiing by skiers, mass media, First Nations, industry leaders, andenvironmentalists in British Columbia. Stoddart challenges us toreflect on skiing’s negative effects as he exposes how certaingroups came to be viewed as the “natural” inhabitants andlegitimate managers of mountain environments.
Название: Impact of Global Changes on Mountains ISBN: 036737790X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367377908 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 65320.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the world's population. Their ecosystems play a critical role in sustaining human life both in the highlands and the lowlands.
During recent years, resource use in high mountain areas has changed mainly in response to the globalization of the economy and increased world population. As a result, mountain regions are undergoing rapid environmental change, exploitation, and depletion of natural resources leading to ecological imbalances and economic unsustainability. Moreover, the changing climatic conditions have stressed mountain ecosystems through higher mean annual temperatures and the melting of glaciers and snow. Altered precipitation patterns have also had an impact.
This book addresses these critical issues and looks at ways to stop the downward spiral of resource degradation, rural poverty, and food and livelihood insecurity in mountain regions. The book also discusses new and comprehensive approaches to mountain development that are needed to identify sustainable resource development practices, how to strengthen local institutions and knowledge systems, and how to increase the resilience between mountain environments and their inhabitants.
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