Название: Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration Strategies ISBN: 1578085268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781578085262 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30624.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. No Fire Next Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternately, leave them free to erupt violently. Few encounters demonstrate this connection better than those between African Americans and Korean Americans.Cities like New York, where politics is noisy, contentious, and involves people at the grassroots, have seen extensive Black boycotts of Korean-owned businesses (usually small grocery stores). African Americans in Los Angeles have sustained few long-term boycotts of Korean American businesses—but the absence of "routine" contention there goes hand in hand with the large-scale riots of 1992 and continuous acts of individual violence.In demonstrating how conflicts between these groups were intimately tied to their political surroundings, this book yields practical lessons for the future. City governments can do little to fight widening economic inequality in an increasingly diverse nation, Joyce writes. But officials and activists can restructure political institutions to provide the foundations for new multiracial coalitions.
Описание: Washington is at crossroads on education policy. It can continue down the path of top-down accountability or rethink the fundamentals and do something different. Choice and Federalism proposes a new path in which Washington unleashes the ability of parents to engage in informed choices of schools and by causes those choices to generate competitive pressures on the providers of education services.
Автор: Brian W. van Wilgen; David M. Richardson; Frederic Название: Fire in South African Mountain Fynbos ISBN: 3642761763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642761768 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15855.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ecologists are increasingly being drawn into the task of addressing problems of environmental degradation. In doing so, the robustness of the science becomes increasingly important, and the problem of extrapolating the results of research conducted within what is usually a relatively limited geographical scope is increasingly highlighted.
Автор: Pyne, Stephen J. Название: Pyrocene ISBN: 0520391632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520391635 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With a healthy perspective we can become resilient in ways that not only help us bounce back from stress and tough times, but we can actually deepen in ways which would not have been possible had they not occurred in the first place. The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart offers a series of brief, accessible lessons in self-care and self-understanding to enhance such possibilities.
A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time--and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.
The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire, swiftly remaking both itself and eventually the world. We developed small guts and big heads by cooking food; we climbed the food chain by cooking landscapes; and now we have become a geologic force by cooking the planet. Some fire uses have been direct: fire applied to convert living landscapes into hunting grounds, forage fields, farms, and pastures. Others have been indirect, through pyrotechnologies that expanded humanity's reach beyond flame's grasp. Still, preindustrial and Indigenous societies largely operated within broad ecological constraints that determined how, and when, living landscapes could be burned. These ancient relationships between humans and fire broke down when people began to burn fossil biomass--lithic landscapes--and humanity's firepower became unbounded. Fire-catalyzed climate change globalized the impacts into a new geologic epoch. The Pleistocene yielded to the Pyrocene. Around fires, across millennia, we have told stories that explained the world and negotiated our place within it. The Pyrocene continues that tradition, describing how we have remade the Earth and how we might recover our responsibilities as keepers of the planetary flame.
Описание: Investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. In this book, the 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes.
Автор: Funk, Chris C. (university Of California, Santa Barbara) Название: Drought, flood, fire ISBN: 1108839878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108839877 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Droughts, floods, and fires impact millions of people and cost billions every year. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous - NOW. This book describes how and why by combining the latest science with compelling stories to provide a timely, accessible, and beautifully written account of this critical topic.
Название: Pyrotechnic Cities ISBN: 1032214740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032214740 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A Dutch oven is more than just another pot. It s the most versatile pot in your kitchen. It s a soup pot, a deep fryer, a braiser, a roaster, an enclosed bread oven, and the perfect vessel for one-dish meals. Let America s Test Kitchen help you make the most of yours with an abundance of creative and approachable recipes tailored to these all-in-one pots.
Автор: Eric S. Kasischke; Brian J. Stocks Название: Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest ISBN: 1468495321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781468495324 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14818.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A discussion of the direct and indirect mechanisms by which fire and climate interact to influence carbon cycling in North American boreal forests.
Автор: Donald McKenzie; Carol Miller; Donald A. Falk Название: The Landscape Ecology of Fire ISBN: 9400734816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400734814 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wildfires are likely to become more extensive and more severe with global warming. This book explores the effects of altered fire regimes on landscape, dominant species, plants, animals and human communities. The discussion includes fire management policies.
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