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History Of The Italian Forest Landscape

by Mauro Agnoletti

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 The book explain the history of the italian forest landscape from preroman times to the present. Chestnut forests, wood pastures, pine forests ).
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History Of The Italian Forest Landscape

by Mauro Agnoletti

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 The book explain the history of the italian forest landscape from preroman times to the present. Chestnut forests, wood pastures, pine forests ).
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Timber Economy In The Baltic Sea (1600-1939)

by Luciano Segreto

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 <p>This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process. This ties into analyzing the early stages of globalization, which often solely revolves around the flow of capital. While this is also discussed in this book, the author paints a more complex picture of international trade, and particularly the relationships between the countries producing commodities and the consumer countries.</p><p>Throughout the chapters, readers will get an understanding of the organization behind the timber value chain from the forests of Central Eastern Europe, the main Scandinavian countries, and Russia, to the main consumer markets in Western Europe. The examined time frame is between the end of the 17th century and World War 2. During that time, a fascinating nexus of economic, technological, and financial structures evolved, that tied the forests’ areas to the consumption centres - with the help of Baltic merchants.</p><p>It is a fascinating story that ties together historical information for readers interested in economic history and traditional use of forest products.</p>
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Environmental Histories Of The Dinaric Karst

~~172,24€~~ 155,02€ 10% OFF

 <div>This multi- and interdisciplinary book will offer novel environmental history (EH) research on Dinaric Karst, one of European largest continuous karstic areas, from prehistory to contemporary history. Various methodological approaches will be applied (e.g., archival investigations, oral-history interviews, field work and laboratory analyses). Historical human adaptations to karstic environmental conditions, human interventions in environment, environmental dynamics and impacts of environmental change will be dealt with by focusing on historical uses of natural resources, their further ecological implications (e.g., fire hazard) and their change over time, on natural and social impacts of changes in weather and climate, on pollution and on intellectual EH. General characteristics and local peculiarities will be identified based on comparisons with foreign literature. Primary audience are historians, geographers, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, foresters and landscapearchitects.</div><div><br></div><div>Chapters 1, 5, 12 and 16 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.</div>
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The Social Metabolism - A Socio-Ecological Theory Of Historical Change

by Manuel Gonzalez De Molina e Víctor M. Toledo

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 This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism.
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Cultivating Continuity Of The European Landscape - New Challenges, Innovative Perspectives

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 20 years after defining these original goals, the editors make landscape ecology and management, a cornerstone for the debate on a 21st century Europe.The numerous contributions cover the three major areas of Landscape Policy and Governance, Landscape Design and Time and Observing Landscape.
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Cultivating Continuity Of The European Landscape - New Challenges, Innovative Perspectives

~~264,34€~~ 237,91€ 10% OFF

 20 years after defining these original goals, the editors make landscape ecology and management, a cornerstone for the debate on a 21st century Europe.The numerous contributions cover the three major areas of Landscape Policy and Governance, Landscape Design and Time and Observing Landscape.
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Social Metabolism - A Socio-Ecological Theory Of Historical Change

by Manuel Gonzalez De Molina e Víctor M. Toledo

~~171,59€~~ 154,43€ 10% OFF

 This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism.
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Agricultural Heritage Systems In Europe, Asia, Africa, Central And South America

by Alessandra Bazzurro, Antonio Santoro, Beatrice Fiore, Federica Romano, Francesco Piras e Mauro Agnoletti

132,49€ + 10% CARD

 <div>Agriculture is often considered as one of the main threats to ecosystems. Unsustainable farming practices often result in habitat loss, inefficient use of water, soil degradation, pollution, genetic erosion, among other negative impacts on human life, including hunger, low food quality, reduced access to food resources, as well as the abandonment of rural areas. Nevertheless, when agriculture is practiced in a sustainable way, it can contribute to the preservation of many habitats, to the protection of watersheds, to the preservation and improvement of soil health.</div><div><br></div><div>The use of sustainable and ecological practices is the key feature distinguishing traditional agriculture from intensive one. It may not provide very high yields, but ensures sustainable harvests over time, thanks to time-tested technologies and traditional know-hows and also represent examples of adaptation to harsh environmental conditions. Based on this approach, in 2002, FAO launched the concept of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, to identify and safeguard agricultural systems that are ensuring food and livelihood security, while maintaining magnificent landscapes, agricultural biodiversity, traditional knowledge, cultural and social values.</div><div><br></div><div>This book presents 18 examples of these traditional agriculture systems around the world, with a special focus on Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, as a result of the "GIAHS Building Capacity" project co-funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence (Italy).</div>
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Cultural Heritageâ€”Possibilities For Land-Centered Societal Development

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 This book includes multi-national research studies (social and natural science research, as well as more directly practical university-based knowledge) about cultural heritage, land, and societal development in varied countries.
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Keynesian, Sraffian, Computable And Dynamic Economics - Theoretical And Simulational (Numerical) Approaches

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 This book explores an alternative approach to the conventional, market-based, view of economic theory and economic policy, at theoretical, numerical and applicable levels.
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Cultural Heritage-Possibilities For Land-Centered Societal Development

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 This book includes multi-national research studies (social and natural science research, as well as more directly practical university-based knowledge) about cultural heritage, land, and societal development in varied countries.
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Reconciling Human Needs And Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes As A New Conservation Paradigm - The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic Of Congo

by Bila-Isia Inogwabini

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 Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.
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The Emergence Paradigm In Quality Management - A Way Towards Radical Innovation

by Everard Van Kemenade e Teun Hardjono

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 Three paradigms, the Empirical Paradigm, the Reference Paradigm and the Reflective Paradigm, are explained followed by a search for the Fourth Paradigm, the so-called Emergence Paradigm, which presents a route to radical innovation in organizations when plans, strategies and models fail.
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Cultural Heritageâ€”Possibilities For Land-Centered Societal Development

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 This book includes multi-national research studies (social and natural science research, as well as more directly practical university-based knowledge) about cultural heritage, land, and societal development in varied countries.
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Social Metabolism Of Spanish Agriculture, 1900-2008 - The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization

by David Soto Fernandez, Eduardo Aguilera Fernandez, Gloria Guzman Casado, Jaime Vila Traver, Juan Infante-Amate, Manuel Gonzalez De Molina e Roberto Garcia Ruiz

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 <p>This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed <i>Agrarian Social Metabolism</i>, combining Social Metabolism with an agroecological perspective. This integrative analysis is especially interesting for environmental scientists and policy makers being the best way to design sustainable agroecosystems and public policies capable of moving us towards a more sustainable food system.</p><p>Spanish agricultural production has experienced impressive growth during the 20th century which has allowed it to ensure the supply of food to the population and even to transform some crops into important chapters in foreign trade. However, this growth has had its negative side since it was based on the injection of large amounts of external energy, on the destruction of employment and the loss of profitability of agricultural activity. But perhaps the most serious part is the strong impact of the current industrialised agriculture model on Spanish agroecosystems, exposed to the overexploitation of hydric resources, pollution of the water by nitrates and pesticides, high erosion rates and an alarming loss of biodiversity; damage which in the immediate future will end up reducing production capacity.</p><p></p>
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Reconciling Human Needs And Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes As A New Conservation Paradigm - The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic Of Congo

by Bila-Isia Inogwabini

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 Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.
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Bialowieza Primeval Forest: Nature And Culture In The Nineteenth Century

by Anastasia Fedotova, Ian D. Rotherham, Piotr Daszkiewicz e Tomasz Samojlik

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 <p>Understanding the current state and dynamics of any forest is extremely difficult - if not impossible - without recognizing its history. Biaowiea Primeval Forest (BPF), located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the best preserved European lowland forests and a subject of myriads of works focusing on countless aspects of its biology, ecology, management. BPF was protected for centuries (15th-18th century) as a game reserve of Polish kings and Lithuanian grand dukes. Being, at that time, a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, BPF was subject to long-lasting traditional, multi-functional utilisation characteristic for this part of Europe, including haymaking on forest meadows, traditional bee-keeping and fishing in rivers flowing through forest. This traditional model of management came to an abrupt end due to political change in 1795, when Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to exist in effect of partitioning by neighbouring countries, and the territory ofBPF was taken over by the Russian Empire. The new Russian administration, influenced by the German trends in forestry, attempted at introducing the new, science-based forestry model in the BPF throughout the 19th century. The entire 19th century in the history of BPF is a story of struggle between new trends and concepts brought and implemented by new rulers of the land, and the traditional perception of the forest and forest uses, culturally rooted in this area and originating from mediaeval (or older) practices.</p><p>The book will show the historical background and the outcome of this struggle: the forest’s history in the long 19th century focusing on tracking all cultural imprints, both material (artificial landscapes, introduced alien species, human-induced processes) and immaterial (traditional knowledge of forest and use of forest resources, the political and cultural significance of the forest) that shaped the forest’s current state and picture. Our book will deliver a pictureof a crucial moment in forest history, relevant not only to the Central Europe, but to the continent in general. Moment of transition between a royal hunting ground, traditional type of use widespread throughout Europe, to a modern, managed forest. Looking at main obstacles in the management shift, the essential difference in perceptions of the forest and goods it provides in both modes of management, and the implications of the management change for the state of BPF in the long 19th century could help in better understanding the changes that European forests underwent in general.</p>
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Adaptive Digital Circuits For Power-Performance Range Beyond Wide Voltage Scaling - From The Clock Path To The Data Path

by Longyang Lin, Massimo Alioto e Saurabh Jain

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 This book offers the first comprehensive coverage of digital design techniques to expand the power-performance tradeoff well beyond that allowed by conventional wide voltage scaling.
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Reconciling Human Needs And Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes As A New Conservation Paradigm - The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic Of Congo

by Bila-Isia Inogwabini

175,73€ + 10% CARD

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 Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.
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World Terraced Landscapes: History, Environment, Quality Of Life

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 <p>This volume collects the best scientific contribution presented in the 3<sup>rd</sup> World Conference on Terraced Landscapes held in Italy from 6<sup>th</sup> to 15<sup>th</sup> October 2016, offering a deep and multifaceted insight into the remarkable heritage of terraced landscapes in Italy, in Europe and in the World (America, Asia, Australia).</p>It consists of 2 parts: a geographical overview on some of the most important terraced systems in the world (1<sup>st</sup> part), and a multidisciplinary approach that aims to promote a multifunctional vision of terraces, underlining how these landscapes meet different needs: cultural and historical values, environmental and hydrogeological functions, quality and variety of food, community empowerment and sustainable development (2<sup>nd</sup> part).<br><br> The volume offers a great overview on strengths, weaknesses, functions and strategies for terraced landscapes all over the world, summarizing in a final manifest the guidelines to provide a future for these landscapes as natural and cultural heritage.
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Histories Of Bioinvasions In The Mediterranean

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 This book is a contribution to the scientific debate on how to deal with the historical dimensions of biological invasions, fostering dialogue between cultural and ecological explanations of environmental change, to inform environmental policy and management.
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Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans

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 Cancer Epidemiology in Asian Americans is a comprehensive volume that provides the most current research on cancer etiology within this fast growing population sub-group in the United States.
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Subjectivity, The Unconscious And Consumerism - Consuming Dreams

by Marlon Xavier

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 Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity.
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