Linacre Lectures – serie
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Culture, Landscape, and the Environment
The Linacre Lectures 1997
Inbunden, 2000
3319 kr
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The environment we inhabit is inseparable from culture. The contributors to this volume move through time and space - from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from Aboriginal Australia to the industrial heart of Britain - to compare the ways in which the environment is constructed in …
Environments and Historical Change
The Linacre Lectures
Av Paul Slack
Inbunden, 1999
1854 kr
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Present anxieties about global warming and threats to biodiversity leave no doubts that environmental changes impact upon humans. Perceptions of the environment change as people try to define and shape 'nature' in different ways. The book explores the relationship between environmental change and …
The Peopling of Britain
The Shaping of a Human Landscape
Av Paul Slack, Ryk Ward
Inbunden, 2002
3028 kr
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This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final …
Managing the Earth
The Linacre Lectures 2001
Av James C. Briden, Thomas E. Downing
Inbunden, 2002
2673 kr
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Although it is now widely recognized throughout societies around the world that humankind is straining the capacity of our planet, the responses of the many parties who need to come together to solve the myriad challenges have in general been sectoral in their approach. Yet the dangers presented by …
Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism
Consciousness of Connections
Av Steven Vertovec, Darrell A. Posey
Inbunden, 2004
1151 kr
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Over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters in both scientific research and public interest. Global concerns have arisen particularly surrounding global warming, the emission of toxic chemicals, threats to biodiversity, radioactivity and the depletion of …
Managing Water Resources, Past and Present
Inbunden, 2004
1037 kr
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A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the British experience of water …
