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Author | : Marion T. Jackson |
Publisher | : Quarry Books |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Natural Heritage of Indiana Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lavishly illustrated, environmentally focused, comprehensive account of the natural world in Indiana from ancient times to the present. While the book is a celebration and recognition of natural wonders and beauty, it is also a record of pillage, misuse, and ignorance, as well as a call to arms for those who would preserve the state's environment. 458 color photos. 10 bandw photos. 64 figures.
Author | : Greg Abernathy |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-01-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0813168678 |
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Photographs and text examine the species of plants and animals native to Kentucky, exploring glades, prairies, forests, wetlands, rivers, and caves, and discussing the state's conservation efforts to preserve native species and ecosystems.
Author | : Michael B. Lafferty |
Publisher | : Ohio Department of Natural Resources |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780933128019 |
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Author | : Eric Dorfman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136481656 |
Download Intangible Natural Heritage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like auditory landscapes, or processes like natural selection. As a concept, intangible natural heritage is growing in prominence, as museums are increasingly charged safeguarding and interpreting the milieux from which their objects originate. This book is a significant advance on the subject of intangible natural heritage; no book on the topic has yet been written and current scholarship is confined to a few isolated papers. As such, there exists a wide variety of perspectives on the topic. Intangible Natural Heritage presents a spectrum of opinion, making the first attempt at a unifying concept on which future work can be based. Authors from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Britain, and North America, address topics on scales from minute insects to sweeping landscapes. The common thread in these explorations is the importance of human relationships with nature that is passed down from generation to generation. In a world that is becoming increasingly fragile, recognizing and fostering these relationships has never been more vital.
Author | : Monaco Books |
Publisher | : Monaco Books is |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biosphere reserves |
ISBN | : 9783955042325 |
Download The Natural Heritage of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unique landscape and wildlife images by the best landscape and nature photographers in the world.
Author | : John E. Fa |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2011-08-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1139498622 |
Download Zoo Conservation Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the face of ever-declining biodiversity, zoos have a major role to play in species conservation. Written by professionals involved in in situ conservation and restoration projects internationally, this is a critical assessment of the contribution of zoos to species conservation through evidence amassed from a wide range of sources. The first part outlines the biodiversity context within which zoos should operate, introducing the origins and global spread of zoos and exploring animal collection composition. The second part focuses on the basic elements of keeping viable captive animal populations. It considers the consequences of captivity on animals, the genetics of captive populations and the performance of zoos in captive breeding. The final part examines ways in which zoos can make a significant difference to conservation now and in the future. Bridging the gap between pure science and applied conservation, this is an ideal resource for both conservation biologists and zoo professionals.
Author | : Anne-Marie Deisser |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-10-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1910634824 |
Download Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Alongside this, the steady rise in the market value of African art has also affected Kenya. Demand for African tribal art has surpassed that for antiquities of Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian origin, and in African countries currently experiencing conflicts, this activity invariably attracts looters, traffickers and criminal networks. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of heritage conservation; the exploration of architectural and urban heritage of Nairobi; and the natural heritage, landscapes and sacred sites in relation to local Kenyan communities and tourism. It thus provides an overview of conservation practices in Kenya from 2000 to 2015 and highlights the role of natural and cultural heritage as a key factor of social-economic development, and as a potential instrument for conflict resolution
Author | : Rodney Harrison |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1787356000 |
Download Heritage Futures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon. Heritage Futures draws on research undertaken over four years by an interdisciplinary, international team of 16 researchers and more than 25 partner organisations to explore the role of heritage and heritage-like practices in building future worlds. Engaging broad themes such as diversity, transformation, profusion and uncertainty, Heritage Futures aims to understand how a range of conservation and preservation practices across a number of countries assemble and resource different kinds of futures, and the possibilities that emerge from such collaborative research for alternative approaches to heritage in the Anthropocene. Case studies include the cryopreservation of endangered DNA in frozen zoos, nuclear waste management, seed biobanking, landscape rewilding, social history collecting, space messaging, endangered language documentation, built and natural heritage management, domestic keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management.
Author | : David Lowenthal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 131797039X |
Download The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences culture is a heritage of nature, whereas in those deriving from the humanities and social sciences, nature is defined socio-culturally. There is also, however, a geographical dimension to how one looks at the nature culture relation. From at least the time of Aristotle, the North has been identified with a cultural heritage thought to derive from the northern natural environment. It was no longer culture, as represented by the architectural monuments of the South, but the natural landscape that provided the measure for both natural and cultural heritage, as the natural landscape and its ecosystems were put in focus. This essay provides a contemporary picture of the long-standing contestation between natural and cultural heritage that provided the basis for the northern perspective taken in these essays. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Author | : Elizabeth Nickson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0062080059 |
Download Eco-Fascists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Forty million Americans have been driven from their lands and rural culture is being systematically crushed, even as wildlife, forests, and rangelands are dying. Journalist Elizabeth Nickson’s investigations into these events have revealed a shocking truth: rather than safeguarding our environment, radical conservationists are actually destroying our natural heritage. In Eco-Fascists, Nickson documents the destructive impact of the environmental movement in North America and beyond, detailing the extreme damage environmental radicals in local and national government agencies are doing to the land, the ecosystems, and the people. Readers of Alston Chase’s Playing God in Yellowstone and In a Dark Wood, and anyone who is deeply concerned about global warming and the environment must read Elizabeth Nickson’s Eco-Fascists.