"This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains -- volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests -- to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories,…
"Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, bu…
"This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Eur…
"All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinc…
"All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinc…
"This volume brings together a wide spectrum of new approaches to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their world. Moving beyond the towering temples and palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization, contribu…
"The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking both a retrospective and pros…
Bedeutsame Landschaften in Deutschland: gutachtliche Empfehlungen für eine Raumauswahl : …
by Schwarzer, Markus, Mengel, Andreas, Konold, Werner, Reppin, Nicole, Mertelmeyer, Linda, Jansen, Manuel, Gaudry, Karl-Heinz, Oelke, Manuel, Bundesamt für Naturschutz
fromBfN-Skripten (1.1998 - 630.2022)
Van de bijna 10.000 soorten vogels in de wereld komen er meer dan 3.600 voor in landbouwgebieden. Veel van die soorten gaan achteruit, maar in steeds meer gebieden wordt actie ondernomen om ze te redden. Dit beeld komt naar voren in het boek 'Farmland Birds across the World', da…
Monastic archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Archaeology and 20th century perceptions of the monastic landscape -- An ecohistory of the Egyptian landscape -- Late antique documentary evidence and the monastic landscape -- Telling stories about the Egyp…
