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Author: Rob E. Stoneman
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780114958367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBogs are fascinating landscapes for ecologists, climatologists, archaeologists, environmental historians and water managers. But many bogs have been damaged, and legislative protection - as 29 case studies demonstrate - is not enough to conserve the rest.
Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 2831707978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. Examples of these landscapes and the diverse strategies needed to maintain this essential relationship between people and the land are provided.
Author: Leonard Martin Cantor
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780946348008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Murray Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2004-06-25
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0470090812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as well as current threats to its existence. Illustrated with global case studies throughout, the book examines traditional approaches to protecting biodiversity and the new management agenda which is starting to be used instead.
Author: David Petts
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael A. Faraday
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is mainly a transcription of the documents produced during the levy of taxation in Herefordshire in the reign of Henry VIII. In fact its scope is somewhat wider than this because it includes prerogative grants, such as loans and benevolences, made to the king, although it fails to notice that they rested on the individual consent of the taxpayers. The transcription is complete, and the original spelling is retained. As a copy of the taxation documents this is a splendid source. Whether the documents provide an accurate account of the wealth of the county is more difficult to say. The accuracy of tax assessments of the period is extremely complicated, as this reviewer's 'Taxation under the early Tudors, 1485-1547', published in 2004, seeks to explore. In this current volume the reader will be well satisfied with the accuracy of the range and typicality of the transcription of the Herefordshire taxation documents.
Author: Dan Charman
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002-11-22
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780471969907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDue to an awareness of peatlands as a diminishing resource, peatland conservation and rehabilitation has become an important study area. Peatlands and Environmental Change offers a new approach by considering peatlands as a whole ecosystem, and thereby provides a better understanding of the importance and the consequences of the functioning of peatlands. Contents include: * Peat and peatlands * Peat landforms and structure * Peatland hydrology and ecology * Origins and pest initiation * Peat accumulation * The peatland archive: palaeoenvironmental evidence * Autogenic change * Allogenic change * Peatland - environmental feedbacks * Values, exploitation and human impacts * Conservation management and restoration
Author: Adrian Phillips
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProtected Landscapes (IUCN Protected Area Category V) are lived-in working landscapes. In the past, there has been a tendency to see them as a rather Eurocentric approach to protected areas but increasingly the category is being designated in other parts of the world, including in a number of developing countries. The Guidelines include sections on the background and on the planning of such areas, and chapters on the principles, policies, process and the means for their management. The text includes more than twenty case studies from ore than fifteen countries in every region of the world.
