Postmodern wetlands: culture, history, ecology
Postmodern Wetlands explores the representation of wetlands (swamps, marshes, etc.) in western culture. For many, wetlands are a place of disease and horror often associated with the melancholy and the monstrous; in short, they are 'black waters'. Yet, ecologically, wetlands are…
Postmodern wetlands: culture, history, ecology
Postmodern Wetlands explores the representation of wetlands (swamps, marshes, etc.) in western culture. For many, wetlands are a place of disease and horror often associated with the melancholy and the monstrous; in short, they are 'black waters'. Yet, ecologically, wetlands are…
"Part ecology, part archaeology and part history, Beavers in Britain's Past explores the evidence for Castor fiber, the European beaver, from late in the last ice age to the time of its extinction from Britain's native fauna."--BOOK JACKET.
"The Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health is the first comprehensive account and guidebook to ecological indicators for evaluating the health of a wide variety of ecosystems. It explains what is needed to apply the methods and indicators, includin…
This thesis aims to study ecological design through the exploration of migratory bird habitat expansion in cities in the context of climate change. The thesis begins with a literature review of basic understanding of the Pacific Flyway and widely accepted theories and landscape …
Organic matter stored in wetlands constitutes a globally significant terrestrial carbon pool interacting with atmospheric carbon via unique ecological processes that release CH4 but take in CO2. Efforts are ongoing to quantify the role of wetlands in terrestrial-atmosphere carbo…
"I have been waiting for such a book for 25 years... The great achievement of this book is that it is not only a well-researched and -written study of the history and culture of English wetlands, but also a call for conservation that engages with contemporary and local issues of…
"This book argues that to understand wetlands is to understand human development. Using case studies drawn from three English wetlands, the book moves between empirical research and scholarship to interrogate how these particular ecosystems have played an essential part in the d…
In 'Canadian Wetlands', Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by …
In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon againstthe grain, critiquing popular representations of wetlands and proposingalternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporaryCanadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, andby entering …
