Human geography Books

Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by human activity and that in turn have a profound effect on our understanding of and identification with a place. The book proposes that a better understanding of the bond between people and forests as integrated part of a landscape may be helpful in landscape planning, and may contribute to the discussion of changes in forest cover which has been motivated by land use changes, rural development and the global climate debate. To this end, people’s perception of forest landscapes, the reasons for different perceptions, and future perspectives are discussed. Given the wide range of forest landscapes, and cultural perspectives which exist across the world, the book focuses on Europe as a test case to explore the various relationships between society, culture, forests and landscapes. It looks at historical evidence of the impacts of people on forests and vice versa, explores the current factors affecting people’s physical and emotional comfort in forest landscapes, and looks ahead to how changes in forest cover may alter the present relationships of people to forests. Drawing together a diverse literature and combining the expertise of natural and social scientists, this book will form a valuable reference for students and researchers working in the fields of landscape ecology and landscape architecture, geography, social science, environmental psychology or environmental history. It will also be of interest to researchers, government agencies and practitioners with an interest in issues such as sustainable forest management, sustainable tourism, reserve management, urban planning and environmental interpretation.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book is the exploration of the cultural, biological, spiritual, economic, and emotional components of the forested landscape of northern Europe from the earliest records of interactions between humans and forests to the present day. … This volume should certainly be considered as part of the literature of landscape ecology, as it considers throughout the interactions between humans, forests, and forested landscapes. … For those with a humanistic or philosophical bent, it is likely a worthwhile read … .” (Ralph E. J. Boerner, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 27, 2012)Table of ContentsPrefaceContentAbout the authorsContributorsPART I1 Introduction – The crooked timber of humanityDainis Dauksta2 Forests in landscapes – The myth of untouched wildernessEva Ritter2.1 People and forests in prehistoric times2.1.1 Hunter-gatherers in Europe2.1.2 The mid-Holocene elm decline2.1.3 The Great Transition2.1.4 Early agricultural impacts on forests2.2 Forest development in historical times2.2.1 The great deforestation of the Ancient World2.2.2 Impacts on forests in Northern and Central Europe2.2.3 Forest protection and forest expansion2.3 Conclusion3 Overcoming Physicophobia – Forests as the sacred source of our human originsRoy Jackson3.1 The forest as nothing more than useful3.2 Rousseau: Friend of the forest3.2.1 The demystification of the forest3.2.2 The “Savage Man”3.3 Nietzsche and the sacredness of nature3.3.1 Nietzsche’s criticism of modernity3.3.2 Nietzsche’s “religious” experience3.4 ConclusionPART II4 Royal forests – Hunting and other forest use in Medieval EnglandDella Hooke4.1 Forests as game reserves4.1.1 The location of forests4.1.2 Forest rights and administration4.2 Medieval hunting4.2.1 Anglo-Saxon hunting and game reserves4.2.2 Medieval hunting methods4.2.3 Hunting iconography in medieval literature4.3 The use of other forest resources4.3.1 Forest pasture4.3.2 Other forest products4.4 The decline of the forests4.5 Hunting in post-medieval times4.6 Conclusion5 Forests as commons – Changing traditions and governance in EuropeChristopher Short5.1 Introduction to the commons5.2 History of forests as commons in Europe5.2.1 Northwestern Europe and the Alps5.2.2 Southern Europe5.2.3 United Kingdom5.3 How the role and use of forests is changing5.4 The relationship between people and forest commons5.5 Conclusion6 New forest owners – Small scale forestry and changes in forest ownershipÁine Ní Dhubháin6.1 What is small-scale forestry?6.2 Characteristics of small-scale forests6.3 Owners of small-scale forests6.3.1 Ownership structure6.3.2 Objectives of small-scale forest owners6.4 Nature of small-scale forests6.5 Consequences of the changing ownership structure6.5.1 Forest fragmentation6.5.2 Recreation and access6.5.3 Timber production6.5.4 Nature conservation6.6 Conclusion7 Forest and recreation – New functions of afforestation as seen in DenmarkCarla K. Smink7.1 Forest recreation: a policy perspective7.2 Forest use in Denmark7.3 Afforestation: creation of recreation opportunities7.4 ConclusionPART III8 From post to pillar – The development and persistence of an arboreal metaphorDainis Dauksta8.1 The wooden post in prehistory and the growth of symbols8.1.1 Timber circles8.1.2 Celtic and La Tène sites8.2 The layering of connected symbols8.2.1 The anthropomorphic tree8.2.2 The lopped tree, the axe and the thunder god8.2.3 The Maypole8.3 The Classical column8.4 Two modern vestiges of the sacred pillar8.5 Conclusion9 Landscape painting and the forest – The influence of cultural factors in the depiction of trees and forestsDainis Dauksta9.1 Medieval symbolic and factual landscapes9.1.1 Symbols of Christ, crucifixion and redemption9.1.2 Perspective, nature and classical mythology9.1.3 Hunting, forestry and country life9.2 Poetic landscapes as concept9.3 New symbolic and factual landscapes9.4 Modern transcendentalism and symbolism9.4.1 David Jones; a coalescence of ancient themes9.4.2 Modern symbolism: irony, the sacred and the secular9.5 Conclusion10 Space and place – Popular perceptions of forestsCarl Griffin10.1 Space and place10.1.1 A range of perceptions, a range of perspectives10.1.2 Understanding popular perceptions of forests10.2 Forests in the landscape and the popular imagination10.2.1 Changing meanings, changing contexts10.2.2 Forests as places apart10.3 The cultural distinctiveness of forests10.3.1 Floral and faunal cultures10.3.2 Everyday cultures10.4 Conclusions: persistences and reimaginings11 Materiality and identity – Forests, trees and senses of belongingOwain Jones11.1 Introduction11.2 Identity11.3 Forests, identity and place11.3.1 Forests as material places of becoming11.3.2 Forests of places of (sensed) dwelling11.4 Forests and practices of identities11.4.1 Global sense of identity11.4.2 National sense of identity11.4.3 Regional sense of identity11.4.4 Local and individual sense of identity11.5 Complex and contested identities11.5.1 Forests as spaces of otherness11.5.2 Forests as places to lose identity11.5.3 Forests as places to find identity11.5.4 Forests: Gender and identity11.6 Conclusion12 Definition and concepts – The etymology and use of the concepts forests and landscapeHanna Byskov Ovesen and Kirsten Krogh Hansen12.1 The use of concepts12.2 Forest12.2.1 Etymology12.2.2 Present use12.3 Landscape12.3.1 Etymology12.3.2 Present use12.4 ConclusionPART IV13 Tree use and landscape changes – Development of a woodland area in SwedenMårten Aronsson and Eva Ritter13.1 The area of Bråbygden13.2 Tree species in the Bråbygden area13.2.1 The natural tree vegetation13.2.2 The function and use of tree species13.3 Human impact on forests, trees and the landscape13.3.1 Grazing and browsing13.3.2 Forest fires and slash-and-burn cultivation13.3.3 Tar distillation and charcoal production13.3.4 Pollards and leaf-fodder harvesting13.3.5 Population growth13.4 Landscape development during medieval times13.5 Landscape development since the 18th century13.5.1 Forest description and forest functions13.5.2 Landscape development13.5.3 Land us changes during the 20th century 13.6 Some thoughts about the future14 Forest landscapes in Europe – Visual characteristics and the role of arboricultureEva Ritter14.1 Landscape perception and analysis14.1.1 Landscape perception and preferences14.1.2 Concepts of landscape analysis14.2 Visual landscape characteristics14.2.1 Degree of openness14.2.2 Complexity and contrast14.3 Tree use and landscape development14.4 Aesthetics in landscape management14.5 ConclusionPART V15 Conclusions – Towards a symbiotic relationshipEva Ritter and Dainis Dauksta15.1 Contradicting forest values15.2 Changing attitudes and relationships15.3 Future perspectivesIndex

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Book SynopsisA New Thinking: The Idea of Advanced City Thinking.- The Future of Cities vs. The Future Cities.- Just Because Smart Cities DO NOT Imply Smart People.- Advanced City Thinking (ACT): Development, Determination and Dimensions.

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Book SynopsisSection I: Insights Into The Theory of Recursion.- How Minimalism Captures the Emergence of Categorical Recursion in Acquisition.- Recursion, Coordinate NPs, and the Acquisition Path.- Toward the Construction of a Formal Definition/Classification System for Recursion.- The Category Hybridization Hypothesis and Poss-ing Gerunds.- Recursion in Language and Beyond: A Biolinguistic Perspective.- Section II: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Recursion.- The Grammar of ‘Unanalyzable’ Sentences in Early Child Language Production: Production Mismatches in the Development of Recursion in English.- The Cat’s (and) Dog’s Bear: Children’s Planning of Conjoined and Embedded Recursive Possessives.- Not Noticing the Evidence: How Big are Illusion Effects on Coordination, Adjunction and Embedding?.- The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction and adjectives in child Romanian.- Relative Gradable Adjective Recursion is More Challenging for Acquisition than Possessive Recursion in English.- Generic Possessives and the Acquisition of Recursive Possessives in English.- Tamil Children’s Comprehension of Recursive phrases: Evidence from Possessives, Locatives and Relativized Sentences.- Recursion and Verb stacking in Tamil and Their Acquisition.- Sound, Meaning and Recursion.- A Shared Developmental Path of Recursion: Evidence from DeP Recursion in Mandarin.- Recursion in Children’s Hungarian. The Acquisition of Complex PPs and Recursive Possessives.

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Book SynopsisPreface.- PART 1 BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION.- Development of Conservation Biogeography.- Conservation Biogeography and Social Sciences.- Multitherapeutic Attributes of Ethnomedicinal Plants, Use and Marketing by Indigenous Communities in the Northeastern Hotspots of India.- Ethno-Veterinary Practices by Rural and Indigenous Communities Across India.- PART 2 CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY AND FOREST COMMUNITIES.- Forest Communities, Threatened and Near-Threatened Medicinal Trees and Climate-Imposed Threats in Central India.- Exploring socio-ecological interactions, including the role of formal & informal rules, in forest management outcomes: A case study from selected forests in Central India.- Rehabilitation and Reclamation of Iron and Manganese Mines in Bellary, India: Theory and Practices.- Impact of Landuse Change on Forest Fringe Communities: Cases from India and Africa.

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Book SynopsisHistorical Tracing: The Accumulation and Development Origin of Subject Data of Ethnic Geography in China.- Ethnic Geography: Object, Content, Concept, Disciplinary System, Method.- Great Migration of Eurasian Nationalities: Regional Differentiation and Spatial Changes in Ethnic Communities.- Nation and Nature: Ethnic Ecological Views on the Relationship Between Man and Land.- Geographical Background of the Formation, Development and Evolution of Ethnic Culture.- Ethnogeography in China.

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Book SynopsisHuman Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultural, and urban dimensions.The book addresses early cultures, languages, religions, the rise of capitalism, and globalisation as components of human geographical systems. Students read about developed and underdeveloped societies, population, political geography, urban geography, agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Each chapter includes a preview of the main points, a post-reading summary, a glossary of key terms, and study questions to be used for in-class discussions or as writing assignments.The fourth edition features a new chapter on economic geography concerned with industrial agriculture, manufacturing, and services. It includes refreshed statistics and figures regarding world populations, groups, and geography to provide students with the most up-to-date information possible. It also contains new data on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on world geography.By reading Human Geography, students gain a historically contextualised understanding of how the world's geographies have been formed, from hunting and gathering societies to cyberspace. The book is an idea resource for freshman-level human geography courses.

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Book SynopsisLivelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural livelihoods. These case studies reveal how household relations, poverty and gender all play a part in the changing political economy of rural Africa.Trade Review'It is a thoughtful and concise book. A sophisticated and comprehensive analysis of rural livelihoods, the household, gender relations and general poverty.' - Journal of Development Studies 'This book can be recommended to serious students of livelihood diversification. It is also useful for Women in Development Studies, as it makes good use of life histories and discusses the impacts on interfamily relationships, undogmatically.' - Progress in Development Studies Table of ContentsPART 1 Changing livelihoods in Eastern and Southern Africa, 1 Making a living: commercial farming, 2 Farming and rural livelihoods in South Africa: a case study, 3 Making a living: migrancy and multiple livelihoods, 4 Rural livelihoods and gender, PART 2 Poverty and livelihoods in Western Kenya, 5 Koguta and Western Kenya, 6 Migration, accumulation and poverty, 7 Poverty and livelihoods, 8 Gender and livelihoods in Koguta, Conclusion

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