Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes, Steve Morton
Автор: Middleton, Nick Название: Deserts: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199564302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199564309 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: от 1138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In this Very Short Introduction Nick Middleton tells the story of the desert, demonstrating its beautiful landscapes and remarkable climates. He challenges the common notion that they are dry and barren and uncovers fascinating life-forms, a rich biodiversity, and a long history of human habitation.
Автор: Pignatti Sandro, Pignatti Wikus Erika Название: Botanical Journeys Into the Western Australian Deserts ISBN: 3030853284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030853280 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21953.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants.
Описание: Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city’s expansion—at the rate of one acre per hour—comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has become a nightmare.In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction. She also explains why sprawl continues despite the heavy toll it takes on the environment.Schipper gives voice to community members who have experienced the pressures of sprawl and questioned fundamental assumptions that sustain it. She presents the perspectives of the many players in the sprawl debate—from developers and politicians to environmentalists and property-rights advocates—not merely to document the phenomenon but also to reveal how seemingly natural ways of thinking about the land are influenced by cultural forces that range from notions of a “rational society” to the marketing of the American Dream.Disappearing Desert speaks to land-use dilemmas nationwide and shows that curtailing suburban development requires both policy shifts and new ways of relating to the land. For anyone seeking to understand the cultural basis for rampant development, this book uncovers the forces that drive sprawl and searches for solutions to its seeming inevitability.
Автор: Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi, Majid Labbaf Khaneiki Название: Veins of the Desert: A Review on Qanat / Falaj / Karez ISBN: 8770220840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788770220842 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13320.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Qanat is a gently sloping subterranean canal, which taps a water-bearing zone at a higher elevation than cultivated lands. A qanat consist of a series of vertical shafts in sloping ground, interconnected at the bottom by a tunnel with a gradient flatter than that of the ground. From the air, this system looks like a line of anthills leading from the foothills across the desert to the greenery of an irrigated settlement. Qanat engages a variety of knowledge and its studying entails an interdisciplinary approach. In a traditional realm, qanats are embraced by a socio-economic system which guarantees their sustainability. The facets of this socio-economic system operate closely together and make it possible for the qanats to remain into future. Veins of the Desert shows that digging a qanat requires a variety of sciences and technologies, though at a glance qanat is just a horizontal tunnel which drains out groundwater. Qanat is a feat of technology left from our ancestors; hidden underground, but its technical importance is apparent, not less valuable than such surface structures as bridges, castles, towers, etc. Qanat enjoys extended structures and sometimes its length reaches tens of kilometers. It passes through geological formations and faces different conditions and obstacles, so the qanat masters' efforts to solve these problems led to the accumulation of knowledge in terms of qanat construction over time, which has been handed down from generation to generation. Qanat is one of the most complicated traditional technologies, which require knowledge on nature ranging from groundwater to management. This indigenous technology used to bring water efficiently from tens of kilometers away to the thirsty lands. This book also gives insight into cultural and social heritages, which have crystalized around this technique. This cultural heritage still influences social life of the people living in such regions as central plateau of Iran where qanat has been the only means of supplying water. This technology is the focal point of the genesis of a particular civilization in the arid and semi-arid regions of Iran. The harsh environment drove those people to invent the technology of qanat and the know-how revolving around it. Qanat carries a tradition of science and technology which used to be practiced in order to overcome the technical obstacles in qanat construction. Thus, qanat is not only an irrigational means, but it should be seen as a technical and cultural legacy which deserves more attention. This book is a small encyclopedia on qanat system, providing the readers with easy answers to their questions about different aspects of this ancient technology.
Автор: Siegmar-W. Breckle; Maik Veste; Walter Wucherer Название: Sustainable Land Use in Deserts ISBN: 3540677623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540677628 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Changing deserts for land use implies many ecological problems. The issues are dealt with in this title. Basic and applied sciences are brought together. Water management in deserts, grazing systems or reclamation of desertified areas are examined as well as social and economic aspects.
Автор: Smith Название: The Archaeology of Australia`s Deserts ISBN: 0521407451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521407458 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book looks at the deep history of Australia`s deserts and the cultural history and archaeology of the Aboriginal people that inhabit these hard lands. It is a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and Earth sciences.
Автор: H. Stewart Edgell Название: Arabian Deserts ISBN: 9402404597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402404593 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 29150.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first comprehensive survey of all the deserts of Arabia, based largely on the author`s 50 years of experience there. The text deals with every kind of desert in the region, from vast sand seas to clay pans and stony plains to volcanic flows.
Автор: Ward, Chris (ninewells Hospital Dundee) Rucksthuhl, Sandra Название: Water scarcity, climate change and conflict in the middle east ISBN: 1784537764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784537760 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 23126.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.
Автор: Williams Название: Climate Change in Deserts ISBN: 1107016916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107016910 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25819.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deserts and desert margins cover nearly half the land area of the globe, are superb repositories of information on past climatic events, and are highly sensitive to possible future climate change. Understanding how deserts responded to past climatic changes can provide useful guidelines for future management of these unique environments.
Описание: Ecosystems provide services that are crucial and beneficial to the human population. The management and conservation of these services can assure the wellbeing of the local population. Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones is an essential reference source that studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in dry regions and examines various strategic local, national, and international policy developments to help overcome these impacts. Featuring research on topics such as poverty reduction, climate change, and adaption policies, this book is ideally designed for environmentalists, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and technology developers who want to improve their understanding of climate change impact, vulnerability, and sustainability, and the strategic role of adaptation and mitigation.
Описание: Project descriptions, biographies and writing from winners and finalists of the first five years of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, 2015-2019
Автор: Ellem Bradon Название: Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come ISBN: 1742589308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742589305 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Pilbara, a large, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia, has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. With millions of tons of iron ore shipped to China, the Pilbara is a media staple, through stories of mining companies' profits, the earnings of fly-in-fly-out workers, and the wealth of new entrepreneurs. For all this, what we know about a vital region such as the Pilbara remains incomplete. The boomtime stories do not reveal much about the Pilbara itself, a place completely transformed across fifty years of mining. No one has acknowledged the Pilbara's ancient history, or the men and women who worked there from the 1960s, building unions and making communities as they worked the mines. In those days, the Pilbara excited both hope and dread about its workers and their power. "From the deserts prophets come," AD Hope wrote years before in his poem, Australia. And it appeared that the Pilbara might be the site of a novel kind of unionism, with workers winning not only high wages but control of the places where they worked and the towns where they lived. But it was not to be. Starting in the 1980s, the companies fought back, defeating the unions and remaking the Pilbara. The managers were now the prophets, with new ways of organising work and managing workers. The companies reinvented the Pilbara through workplace control, fly-in-fly-out labor, and twelve-hour shifts. Their vision reshaped not just the desert but the cities, not just the work in mines and ports but in offices and shops. When the biggest boom in mining history came along, it unfolded across a Pilbara landscape very different from a generation earlier. The union prophets were gone; the companies' profits grew. This book reveals the story of fifty years of conflict over work and life in the Pilbara, and how this conflict has affected the rest of Australia. Subject: Australian Studies, Labor History]
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