The environment Books
Springer PeopleCentered Innovation
Book SynopsisPeople-Centered Approach, Urban Innovation, and the SDGs.- Eco-Friendly Farmer Card: Protect Your Environment, Collect Points, and Win Prizes in Antalya, Türkiye.- Bogotá Care Blocks: How a city is Reorganizing itself for Women and Achieving the SDGs in Bogotá, Colombia.- Building Resilient Food Systems in Cape Town, South Africa.- Ancient Engineering of Sustainable Water Management Meets Urban Innovation through Citizens’ Participation in Chalandri, Greece.
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Springer Compressed Biogas CBG
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Biogas Production and its Applications.- Technologies for Cleaning of Biogas.- Technologies for Upgradation of Biogas.- Technical Evaluation / Comparison between Different Technologies.- Water Scrubbing Technology.- Prospects of Decentralised Biogas upgradation and Bottling Systems in Developing and Developed Countries.
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Springer Green Growth Opportunities and Sustainable Finance in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region
Book SynopsisChapter 1 "Status and Prospects of Renewable Energy Development in GCC Countries.- Chapter 2 "Finance Landscape and Opportunities in the Gulf Cooperation Council.- Chapter 3 "Holistic Approach for Smart Cities in the UAE.
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Springer Advances in Clean Energy Technologies
Book SynopsisExperimental Study on Impact of Inlet Duct Elevation on the Indoor Thermal Environment.- Modeling of Ejection Efficiency of Vortex Tube Extractor by Gradient Boosting Machine.- Noise reduction analysis in the industrial environment by acoustic materials.- Techno-economic potential assessment of green hydrogen production system.- Numerical Study of Effect of Aggregate Type on the Dynamic Impact Factor of Concrete.- A Solar Tracking Feasibility Study for Developments in Solar Tracking Systems.- Performance Improvement and Economic Analysis of Double Slope Solar Still with nano enhanced eutectic Phase Change Material and Wick Material.- Review on strength and durability parameters of concrete when waste seashells powder and alccofine are used.- Performance Evaluation of C I Engine using Neem Biodiesel with Additive and Blends of Diesel.- Experimental Investigation of Paraffin Wax Melting in Box-Type Solar Thermal Collector at Nagpur Outdoor Conditions.- Thermal performance investigation of biocomposite phase change material incorporated autoclaved aerated concrete bricks in a simulated environment.- Green Hydrogen: A Scientometric-based Mapping of Research and Development.- A comprehensive review on haemostatic and responsive materials in wound dressings.- Optimization of performance and emission analysis of Jojoba biodiesel on CRDI diesel engine through Response Surface Methodology.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Metallogenic Theory and Exploration Technology of
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a new structural model of “multi-arc-basin-terrane system” based on the in-depth research of the Nujiang-Lancangjiang-Jinshajiang region, especially several Paleo-Tethys ophiolitic mélange belts and sets of arc-basin systems, and a new orogenic model of “The Hengduan shan Mountains” based on penetrated research on spatial-temporal framework and orogenic models of different orogenic belts under large-scale strike-slip-shear-nappe structures evolution. The authors paid special attention on the coupling relation between orogeny and metallogenesis. The metallogenesis and dynamic process are probed under the crust–mantle interaction and material-energy exchange-transmission background and the tectonic units evolution. The ore genesis and distribution of deposits have been thoroughly analyzed, and the metallogenic theories of "multi-arc-basin-terrane" and "intracontinental tectonic transformation" in the Nujiang-Lancangjiang-Jinshajiang region have been carried out. This book also illustrates how to explore metallic deposits in the Nujiang-Lancangjiang-Jinshajiang region by using the metallogenic regulations. Meanwhile, this book has high reference value for researchers working in the fields of basic geology, environmental geology, and energy geology.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Tectonic Framework of Sanjiang Tethyan Metallogenic Domain.- Basic Characteristics and Evolution of Sanjiang Tethys Archipelagic Arc-Basin System.- Formation and Evolution of Sanjiang Collision Orogenic Belt.- Mineralization and Metallogenic System in Sanjiang Region.- Regional Metallogenic Models.- Geological Prospecting Method of Sanjiang and Integration of Exploration Technologies.
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The Chinese University Press Dragons – Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping Kwan
Book SynopsisLeung Ping?kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story See Mun and the Dragon (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story Drowned Souls (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and complex manner, influenced by the style of the traditional Chinese tales of the supernatural. Although the two stories are separated by over 30 years, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China and a symbol of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s ideas of freedom and liberation.Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying?tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.
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The Chinese University Press Lotus Leaves – Selected Poems of Leung Ping Kwan
Book SynopsisLeung Ping?kwan is one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down?to?earth, the modern and the traditional, the serious and the humorous, the local and the universal. He wrote, ‘I want to write a kind of modern poetry that does not have to turn away from the world we live in, that rethinks the relationship between language and objects...’ This collection has been carefully curated, and is arranged under ten thematic sections: Lotus Leaves, Hong Kong, Macao, Foodscape, After the Book of Songs, Strange Tales: After Pu Songling, Clothink, Museum Pieces, Places and Friends, Bitter?Melon and Others. These translated poems, and the delight they bring, are a celebration of the continuing legacy of a remarkable Hong Kong poet.
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The Chinese University Press The Best China
Book SynopsisThe Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has always characterised the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, always civilised, and buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.
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Habitat Press Stories from the Microbial World
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Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica de la Universidad de Málaga El eje verde urbano AlamedaParque
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Elsevier Science Spatial CaptureRecapture
Book SynopsisProvides a how-to manual with examples of spatial capture-recapture models based on technology and knowledge. This title provides you with an extensive step-by-step analysis of many data sets using different software implementations. It embraces Bayesian and classical inference strategies to give the reader different options to get the job done.Trade Review"...a book for the DIY quantitative ecologist who wants to understand their data...I enjoyed it tremendously and it already had a strong influence on how I think about some of my current research projects." --Basic and Applied Ecology "...a timely and informative contribution that summarizes the history and motivation behind SCR models,...will be a vital addition to wildlife ecologist’s book shelves for many years to come." --The Journal of Wildlife Management, Sep 14Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. Background and Concepts 1. Introduction 2. Statistical Models and SCR 3. GLMs and Bayesian Analysis 4. Closed Population ModelsII. Basic SCR Models 5. Fully Spatial Capture-Recapture Models 6. Likelihood Analysis of Spatial Capture-Recapture Models 7. Modeling Variation In Encounter Probability 8. Model Selection and Assessment 9. Alternative Observation Models 10. Sampling DesignIII. Advanced SCR Models 11. Modeling Spatial Variation in Density 12. Modeling Landscape Connectivity 13. Integrating Resource Selection with Spatial Capture-Recapture Models 14. Stratified Populations: Multi-session and Multi-site Data 15. Models for Search-Encounter Data 16. Open Population ModelsIV. Super-Advanced SCR Models 17. Developing Markov Chain Monte Carlo Samplers 18. Unmarked Populations 19. Spatial Mark-Resight Models for partially identifiable populations 20. 2012: A Spatial Capture-Recapture OdysseyV. Appendices WinBUGS OpenBUGS JAGS RBibliography
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Oxford University Press, USA Plantation Forestry In The Tropics The Role Silviculture and Use of Planted Forests for Industrial Social Environmental and Agroforestry Purposes
Book SynopsisDevelopment of planted forests in tropical and subtropical countries is accelerating to satisfy the ever-growing global demands for wood products. Indeed, it is expected that within 20 years half of all wood fibre in the world will be sourced from plantations, of which more than half are in the tropics and subtropics. As well as intensively-managed, industrial wood plantations, trees are increasingly being planted as part of farming systems, and to control erosion and rehabilitate degraded lands and forests. Active community involvement in tree planting as part of rural development is now widespread and welcome. This book provides an overview that sets plantation silviculture in the wider context of the development processes and their social, environmental and ecological impacts.For this new edition, the structure and approach of previous editions have been retained but every chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated. Two new chapters - ''clonal forestry'' and ''ecological restoration'' - have been added. The central theme remains the silviculture that underpins successful industrial planted forests. Overall the book provides an up-to-date account of silvicultural practices, some of the socio-economic essentials and the key role tree planting now plays in natural resource management and improving rural livelihoods in the tropics. Contemporary issues such as full stakeholder participation and sustainable management practices in planted forests are also addressed.This expanded third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to plantation forestry practices in the tropics as part of sustainable land use. Both the historical context and recent developments are presented so that students, professional foresters, development specialists, and all with an interest in tropical forest management will find this a valuable reference text.Trade ReviewThis new edition of Plantation Forestry in the Tropics firmly re-establishes it as the standard text...Julian Evans's book deserves a place on the bookshelf of all foresters - they will find much to learn from it. * Forestry *This book provides the student with a comprehensive introduction or the practitioner or development specialist with an overview of plantation forestry and tree planting in tropical countries as part of sound land use. * Rural Development Forestry Network, Newsletter 14 *Table of ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION ; PART II LAND, SOCIAL & ECONOMIC FACTORS, AND PLANNING IN PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ; PART III PLANTATION SILVICULTURE ; PART IV TREE-PLANTING AND PLANTATION FORESTRY IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SOIL CONSERVATION, REHABILITATION, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY
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Oxford University Press The Environmental Politics Reader Debating the Earth
Book SynopsisDebating the Earth brings together over 40 essential readings that illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental issues. They are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental affairs and there is a mixture of classic pieces and cutting-edge essays. The key debates that are covered include the severity of environmental problems, reformist responses to environmental issues, the environment and economics and green critiques.The second edition includes a new section on ''The Global South and Indigenous Perspectives'' which broadens the geographical scope. 25 extracts are new to this edition and there are more extracts by women.Trade Review`The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts' Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.`I am convinced that this excellent, accessible and wide-ranging book will find its way into many libraries and on to personal bookshelves'R Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.Table of ContentsPART ONE: FEAST OR FAMINE? THE SEVERITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ; SECTION ONE: LIMITS AND SURVIVALISM ; SECTION TWO: THE PROMETHEAN RESPONSE ; PART TWO: REFORMIST RESPONSES ; 7. RATIONALITY AND THE LOGIC OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT ; SECTION FOUR: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY ; PART THREE: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS ; SECTION FIVE: MARKET LIBERALISM ; SECTION SIX: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ; SECTION SEVEN: ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION ; PART FOUR: GREEN SOCIAL CRITIQUES ; SECTION EIGHT: DEEP ECOLOGY AND BIOREGIONALISM ; SECTION NINE: SOCIAL AND SOCIALIST ECOLOGY ; SECTION TEN: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ; SECTION ELEVEN: SOUTHERN AND INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ; PART FIVE: SOCIETY, THE STATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT ; SECTION ELEVEN: THE GREEN MOVEMENT ; SECTION TWELVE: ECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY
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Oxford University Press Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics
Book SynopsisIn the context of growing concern over climate change and other environmental pressures, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics explores what an ecological reading of the biblical text can contribute to contemporary environmental ethics. The Judaeo-Christian tradition has been held partly to blame for a negative attitude to creation - one that has legitimised the exploitative use of the earth''s resources. Hilary Marlow explores some of the thinking in the history of the Christian tradition that has contributed to such a perception, before discussing a number of approaches to reading the Old Testament from an ecological perspective. Through a detailed exegetical study of the texts of the biblical prophets Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah, Marlow examines the portrayal of the relationship between YHWH the God of Israel, humanity and the non-human creation. In the course of this exegesis, searching questions emerge: what are the various understandings of the non-human creaTrade ReviewThe book provides excellent background for anyone working or teaching in the area of Bible and ecology. It covers much groundhistorically, theologically, and exegeticallywith admirable brevity and great clarity; the superb bibliography points the way for further work * Ellen F. Davis, Interpretation *anyone working in the field of the Bible and environment will welcome this addition to the scholarly literature. * J. W. Rogerson, Journal of Theological Studies *Marlow offers a biologically rich and morally sensitive account of the themes of the earth ... The book is beautifully produced, clearly and engagingly written and richly researched and makes an important contribution to the ongoing reocvery of the Old Testament as a source of ecological wisdom rather than of odium. * Michael Northcott, Expository Times *Table of ContentsForeword by John Barton ; Introduction ; 1. Creation in Church History ; 2. Nature Versus History: An Artificial Divide ; 3. Ecological Hermeneutics: Meaning and Method ; 4. Who Can But Prophesy? Creation Dialogue in the Book of Amos ; 5. The People do not Know: Covenantal Failure in the Book of Hosea ; 6. The Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts: YHWH, the People and the Land in Isaiah 1-39 ; 7. The Old Testament Prophets and Environmental Ethics: A Dialogue
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Taylor & Francis Brutalism Resurgent
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Taylor & Francis From Socialist to PostSocialist Cities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Elementary Behaviour of Composite Steel and Concrete Structural Members
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Taylor & Francis American Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods for Interior Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing a New Environmental Era
Book SynopsisWriting a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving forward to forge a more harmonious relationship with nature in the future. Using the rise of the automobile and climate change denial literature to explore how our current environmental era was written into existence, Ken Hiltner argues that the humanitiesand not, as might be expected, the sciencesneed to lead us there. In one sense, climate change is caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. Science can address this cause. However, approached in another way altogether, climate change is caused by a range of troubling human activities that require the release of these gases, such as our obsessions with cars, lavish houses, air travel and enTrade Review“Hiltner agrees that humanities scholars need to use skills we have honed over decades for critical thinking and social responsibility to contribute to “writing forward to nature”, in a way that will mitigate the disaster that’s waiting. Hiltner has provided a model for others to follow. This is an important book, lucidly written, showing clear thinking; it’s a must-read, and should be widely disseminated.” E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University"At once visionary and pragmatic, this eye-opening book argues for an "applied humanities": science-informed, tech-savvy, and fully equipped to write the greenest possible future into being. Using his own experiment -- the "Nearly Carbon Neutral" conference -- as a test case, Ken Hiltner shows that climate action is the work of every humanities scholar."Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"In this engaging and tightly argued book, environmental humanities scholar Ken Hiltner shows that the solution to our present environmental crises is not a return to some pristine and harmonious natural world. Thoreau’s famous retreat on Walden Pond, Hiltner reminds us, was only a short journey away from the textile mills of Lowell. If the pastoral idyll was never more than a convenient fiction, today we face an urgent imperative, as Hiltner puts it, to “move forward” to nature. The environmental humanities can play a key role in this movement, Hiltner suggests, inasmuch as they can help us write the future into being. Blending personal memoir, whip-smart literary criticism, and some extremely forward-thinking suggestions about how to green academia, Hiltner’s book models what committed scholarship for our perilous times looks like."Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, The Graduate Center & College of Staten Island, The City University of New York"A provocative exploration of how we understand humanity's relationship with nature and a call to write our way not to a romanticized Edenic past, but to a truly sustainable future."Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute"In an era of accelerating climate breakdown and mass extinction, Hiltner convincingly argues that the environmental movement must take a step back and question its most fundamental assumptions concerning humanity's relationship with nature, culture, and technology."Peter Kalmus, Climate Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Forward to Nature Turning from the Past Turning Toward the Future Forward to Nature, Away from Nature Places, Natural and Otherwise Part II: Writing a New Environmental Era Writing a New Environmental Era Confronting Denial Going Nowhere Fast Epilogue: About this Book Appendix: Writing a New Practice, Details, Details Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing a New Environmental Era Moving forward to
Book SynopsisWriting a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving forward to forge a more harmonious relationship with nature in the future. Using the rise of the automobile and climate change denial literature to explore how our current environmental era was written into existence, Ken Hiltner argues that the humanitiesand not, as might be expected, the sciencesneed to lead us there. In one sense, climate change is caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. Science can address this cause. However, approached in another way altogether, climate change is caused by a range of troubling human activities that require the release of these gases, such as our obsessions with cars, lavish houses, air travel and enTrade Review“Hiltner agrees that humanities scholars need to use skills we have honed over decades for critical thinking and social responsibility to contribute to “writing forward to nature”, in a way that will mitigate the disaster that’s waiting. Hiltner has provided a model for others to follow. This is an important book, lucidly written, showing clear thinking; it’s a must-read, and should be widely disseminated.” E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University"At once visionary and pragmatic, this eye-opening book argues for an "applied humanities": science-informed, tech-savvy, and fully equipped to write the greenest possible future into being. Using his own experiment -- the "Nearly Carbon Neutral" conference -- as a test case, Ken Hiltner shows that climate action is the work of every humanities scholar."Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"In this engaging and tightly argued book, environmental humanities scholar Ken Hiltner shows that the solution to our present environmental crises is not a return to some pristine and harmonious natural world. Thoreau’s famous retreat on Walden Pond, Hiltner reminds us, was only a short journey away from the textile mills of Lowell. If the pastoral idyll was never more than a convenient fiction, today we face an urgent imperative, as Hiltner puts it, to “move forward” to nature. The environmental humanities can play a key role in this movement, Hiltner suggests, inasmuch as they can help us write the future into being. Blending personal memoir, whip-smart literary criticism, and some extremely forward-thinking suggestions about how to green academia, Hiltner’s book models what committed scholarship for our perilous times looks like."Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, The Graduate Center & College of Staten Island, The City University of New York"A provocative exploration of how we understand humanity's relationship with nature and a call to write our way not to a romanticized Edenic past, but to a truly sustainable future."Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute"In an era of accelerating climate breakdown and mass extinction, Hiltner convincingly argues that the environmental movement must take a step back and question its most fundamental assumptions concerning humanity's relationship with nature, culture, and technology."Peter Kalmus, Climate Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Forward to Nature Turning from the Past Turning Toward the Future Forward to Nature, Away from Nature Places, Natural and Otherwise Part II: Writing a New Environmental Era Writing a New Environmental Era Confronting Denial Going Nowhere Fast Epilogue: About this Book Appendix: Writing a New Practice, Details, Details Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Valued Environments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology 7 Routledge Library Editions Geology
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology
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Taylor & Francis John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture
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Taylor & Francis The Break with the Past AvantGarde Architecture in Germany 1910 1925 Routledge Research in Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Families and the Energy Transition
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Taylor & Francis Istanbul Open City Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environment and Belief Systems
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Design Psychology
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The North African Environment At Risk
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The North African Environment At Risk
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Taylor & Francis Building Rules
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Taylor & Francis The Fractured Metropolis
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Taylor & Francis Rural by Design
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Taylor & Francis Housing in PostGrowth Society
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Finance for the Developing World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Writers and the Environment
Book SynopsisApplying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudTable of ContentsContents, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction Practical Ecocriticism and the Victorian TextLaurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University and Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 1: Reading Nature: John Ruskin, Environment, and the Ecological ImpulseMark Frost, University of PortsmouthChapter 2: Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": A Study of Tennyson’s TopographyValerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin UniversityChapter 3: Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman WorldAshton Nichols, Dickinson CollegeChapter 4: "Truth to Nature": The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti’s PoetrySerena Trowbridge, Birmingham City UniversityChapter 5: The Zoocentric Ecology of Hardy’s Poetic ConsciousnessChristine Roth, University of Wisconsin OshkoshChapter 6: Early Dickens and Ecocriticism: The Social Novelist and the NonhumanTroy Boone, University of PittsburghChapter 7: Bleak Intra-Actions: Dickens, Turbulence, Material EcologyJohn Parham, University of WorcesterChapter 8: Dark Nature: A Critical Return to Brontë CountryDeirdre d’Albertis, Bard CollegeChapter 9: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral TraditionErin Bistline, Texas Tech UniversityChapter 10: The Environmental Politics and Aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: Capital, Mourning and DesireJohn Miller, University of SheffieldChapter 11: Jane Loudon’s Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of KnowledgeMary Ellen Bellanca, University of South Carolina SumterChapter 12: Falling in Love with Seaweeds: The Seaside Environments of George Eliot and G.H. LewesAnna Feuerstein, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Chapter 13: Agriculture and Ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His MastersRonald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 14: Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the Animal Limits of Victorian EnvironmentsJed Mayer, SUNY at New PaltzSources for Further StudyEditors and Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Pollution and the Media
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Taylor & Francis Urban Development in China under the Institution of Land Rights
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