People of the Wetlands
Author | : Bryony Coles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Bog bodies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bryony Coles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Bog bodies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emily O'Gorman |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0295749040 |
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.
Author | : International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Publisher | : International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9290907843 |
Author | : Donald Wayne Davis |
Publisher | : University of Louisiana |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Coastal settlements |
ISBN | : 9781887366960 |
Washed Away is the first comprehensive look at the settlement, occupation, and environmental challenges of these Louisiana coastal communities.
Author | : Rodney James Giblett |
Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : NATURE |
ISBN | : 9781783201761 |
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 entering into dialogue with American writers. The book will engender mutual respect between researchers for the contribution that different disciplinary approaches can and do make to the study and conservation of wetlands internationally."
Author | : Lisa Benjamin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781643034461 |
Author | : Hugh Prince |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226682803 |
How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. In this readable and objective account, Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes toward wetlands in the American Midwest. As attitudes changed, so did scientific research agendas, government policies, and farmers' strategies for managing their land. Originally viewed as bountiful sources of wildlife by indigenous peoples, wet areas called "wet prairies," "swamps," or "bogs" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were considered productive only when drained for agricultural use. Beginning in the 1950s, many came to see these renamed "wetlands" as valuable for wildlife and soil conservation. Prince's book will appeal to a wide readership, ranging from geographers and environmental historians to the many government and private agencies and individuals concerned with wetland research, management, and preservation.
Author | : Fred Pearce |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-02-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0008405123 |
Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world.
Author | : C Max Finlayson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-08-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401796092 |
The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers. The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from the emergence and re-emergence of public health and human well-being problems such as cholera pandemics, mosquito borne disease, and episodic events and disasters (e.g. hurricanes). To tackle these problems requires genuine cross-disciplinary collaboration; a key finding of the recently concluded Millennium Ecosystem Assessment when looking at human well-being and ecosystem health. This book brings the disciplines of ecology and health sciences closer to such a synthesis for researchers, teachers and policy makers interested in or needing information to manage wetlands and human health and well-being issues.
Author | : Paul A. Keddy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521739675 |
This text provides a synthesis of the existing field of wetland ecology using a few central themes, including key environmental factors that produce wetland community types and some unifying problems such as assembly rules, restoration and conservation.