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Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective. It covers both natural and managed forests from boreal temperate sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. The book is divided into seven parts addressing the following themes: forest types forest dynamics forest flora and fauna energy and nutrients forest conservation and management forests and climate change human impacts on forest ecology. While each chapter can stand alone as a suitable resource for a lecture or seminar the complete book provides an essential reference text for a wide range of students of ecology environmental science forestry geography and natural resource management. Contributors include leading authorities from all parts of the world. | Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

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Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos rites and supermundane forces freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones trees and healing flora sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research this volume examines cultural perceptions of water’s sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human–environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology archaeology classics folklore geography geology history literature and religious studies. | Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

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Socialtechnological Man/h

Socialtechnological Man/h

Recent international attention has focused on desertification and its concomitants especially the diminution of flora and fauna in arid and semiarid lands and the resulting reduction in the economic value of those lands. Natural factors such as drought and wind erosion as well as various technological practices have been blamed for the present situation in many countries. Most observers agree that human beings have been both perpetrators and victims of desertification. Anthropologists have long been interested in documenting hew different societies have affected and been affected by their environments. The papers in this volume present ease studies of societies ranging from ancient Peru to contemporary Israel along with several topically oriented works. All are designed to illustrate how various societies-whether by water management or by the exploitation of plants and animals-have attempted to achieve ecological balance. Social organization and ideology as well as technology are discussed as important variables affecting the ways in which populations adapt to or cope with desertification. | Socialtechnological Man/h

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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities where they were observed transplanted and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes who patronised and sustained research and teaching whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants this book also shows how plants while maintaining their importance in therapy began to be considered and studied for themselves and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy. | The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

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The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh ‘entrepreneurs’ the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible. | The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

In this pioneering study Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers cartographers ethnologists medical topographers administrators and missionaries published by the RGS local geographical societies or the colonial state acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R. L. Stevenson Olive Schreiner Flora Annie Steel Winwood Reade Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction published between 1870 and 1901 reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach. | Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

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Sponsoring Nature Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

Sponsoring Nature Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

Saving the world's flora and fauna especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees whales and the tropical rain forests is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways one of which is the funding of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). This book is the first to comprehensively address this issue and focus on a dominant theme in environmental philanthropy the links between ENGOs and CBOs and their sponsors especially the private sector. It has been argued that donor support is based on recipient's perceived expertise and needs with no favouritism of flagship environmental organizations as recipients of donor funds. A counterview holds that the private sector prefers to fund mainstream ENGOs for environmental research and policy reforms congenial to industrial capital. The authors show that the debate about these arguments together with the empirical evidence on which they are based may shed light on certain aspects of the nature of environmental philanthropy. The book evaluates practical examples of environmental philanthropy from Africa and elsewhere against philosophical questions about the material and geographical expressions of philanthropy and the North-South connections among philanthropists and ENGOs and CBOs. | Sponsoring Nature Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation

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Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles sexuality​ and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands tactility and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret ​what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by ​Jane Austen the Brontës George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings musical compositions and nonfictional texts​ such as etiquette books and scientific treatises​ to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact ​as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian ​and neo-Victorian literature. | Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

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A Handbook of Global Freshwater Invasive Species

A Handbook of Global Freshwater Invasive Species

Invasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity. Often introduced accidentally through international travel or trade they invade and colonize new habitats often with devastating consequences for the local flora and fauna. Their environmental impacts can range from damage to resource production (e. g. agriculture and forestry) and infrastructure (e. g. buildings road and water supply) to human health. They consequently can have major economic impacts. It is a priority to prevent their introduction and spread as well as to control them. Freshwater ecosystems are particularly at risk from invasions and are landscape corridors that facilitate the spread of invasives. This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the most notable global invasive freshwater species or groups based on their severity of economic impact geographic distribution outside of their native range extent of research and recognition of the ecological severity of the impact of the species by the IUCN. As well as some of the very well-known species the book also covers some invasives that are emerging as serious threats. Examples covered include a range of aquatic and riparian plants insects molluscs crustacea fish amphibians reptiles and mammals as well as some major pathogens of aquatic organisms. The book also includes overview chapters synthesizing the ecological impact of invasive species in fresh water and summarizing practical implications for the management of rivers and other freshwater habitats. | A Handbook of Global Freshwater Invasive Species

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Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

Perspectives on Impact brings together leaders from across sectors to reflect on our approaches to social change. Sharing diverse examples from their work these authors show how we must think more systemically and work more collaboratively to move the needle on the biggest social humanitarian and environmental challenges facing our world. Chapters by: Niko Canner Shanti Nayak and Cynthia Warner (Incandescent) Duncan Green (OxFam) Farah Ramzan Golant (Girl Effect kyu) Sara Holoubek (Luminary Labs) Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab) Leila Janah (Samasource LXMI Samaschool) Amirah Jiwa George Kronnisanyon Werner (Republic of Liberia) Chris Larkin (IDEO. org) Eric Maltzer (Medora Ventures Middlebury College) Jane Nelson (Harvard Kennedy School) Craig Nevill-Manning and Prem Ramaswami (Sidewalk Labs) Jacqueline Novogratz (Acumen) Deena Shakir (GV formerly Google Ventures) Jose Miguel Sokoloff (MullenLowe Group) Lara Stein (TEDx Women's March Global) Piyush Tantia (ideas42) Fay Twersky (William & Flora Hewlett Foundation) Sherrie Rollins Westin and Shari Rosenfeld (Sesame Workshop) Perspectives on Impact and its sister book Perspectives on Purpose bring together leading voices from across sectors to discuss how we must adapt our organizations for the twenty-first century world. Perspectives on Impact focuses on the recalibration of social impact approaches to tackle complex humanitarian social and environmental challenges; Perspectives on Purpose looks at the shifting role of the corporation in society through the lens of purpose. | Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

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Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation

Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan’s withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) which came into effect in July 2019. In 1982 the International Whaling Commission (IWC) adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling which has been in effect ever since despite the resistance of some countries first and foremost Japan Norway and Iceland that engage in commercial whaling. As one of the key contributors to scientific research and funding Japan’s withdrawal has the potential to have wide-ranging implications and this volume examines the impact of Japan’s withdrawal on the IWC itself on the governance of whaling and on indigenous and coastal whaling. It provides backgrounds and commentaries on this decision as well as normative and legal discussions on matters relating to sustainable use of resources and philosophies surrounding whaling in different IWC countries. The consideration of other international environmental regimes such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is also examined in order to determine the international ripple effect of Japan’s decision. The book reveals that this is not just a matter of whaling but one which has significant legal managerial and cultural implications. Drawing on deep analyses of IWC structures the book addresses core philosophies underlying the whaling debate and in how far these may influence environmental governance in the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and governance biodiversity conservation and sustainable development as well as policymakers involved in international environmental and conservation agreements. | Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation

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Brazil and the Brazilians

Brazil and the Brazilians

First published in 2006. This work introduced Brazil to the English-speaking world when it was first published in 1857 and it is the best early account of the country written in English. Fletcher and Kidder were both missionaries in Brazil K1ader living there between 1837 and 1840 and Fletcher some twenty years later. Although they were not in Brazil at the same time they subsequently collaborated on this book supplementing their direct experiences of the country by interviewing leading citizens and by using material drawn from Documents of the Imperial and provincial archives of Brazil and from Brazilian state papers. The work therefore benefits from two different viewpoints and from a period of observation that covers some thirty years. At the time the book was written most English readers were better acquainted with China and India than with Brazil which in the popular mind as the authors put it was a land of 'mighty rivers and virgin forests palm trees and jaguars anaconaas and alligators diamond-mining revolutions and earthquakes'. Fletcher and Kidder were determined to show another side of Brazil - that of a stable constitutional monarchy and growing nation the descendants of the Portuguese holding_ I the same relative position in South America as the descendants o1 the English in North America. The portrait of Brazil and the Brazilians they present is unexpected and fascinating -an elaborate colonia1 society ruled over by an emperor with a privileged bourgeoisie and fine cities - outposts of European culture surrounded by encroaching jungle. The work is arranged in twenty-six chapters. Fletcher and Kidder begin by recounting the little-known early history of Brazil then go on to describe the culture and customs of the country in great detail covering everything from the government of Brazil the marriage of Christian and heathenism the Brazilian home Brazilian women the nobility and the Emperor's palace to Amazon steamers gold mines slavery and the Indian and African inhabitants whose descendants are among Brazil's present. ­ cosmopolitan population. Accounts of travel within the country will give the authors an opportunity to describe Brazil's distinctive flora and fauna and striking natural features a panoramic treatment complimented by charming line drawings. Tnis volume- was justifiably acclaimed on Publication and it remains essential and enjoyable reading for a11 those interested in Brazil's past present and future.

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