[PDF] Landscape Appreciation eBook

Author : David Jacques
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1837645329

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This book examines the many theories of preferred landscape over the last half century and informs those readers teaching or in landscape practice of the main lines of argument so that they can make up their own minds.

Author : Darrel Hess
Publisher : Pearson Educacion
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Physical geography
ISBN : 9780321893161

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Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darrel Hess offers a broad survey of all of the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earths physical landscape. "McKnights Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation" provides a clear writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy to appeal to a wide variety of students. This new edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, technology, the latest applied science, and new pedagogy, providingessential tools and opportunities to teach and engage students in these processes and patterns.

Author : Darrel Hess
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Biomes and habitats
ISBN : 9780321863966

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Physical Geography Laboratory Manual for McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, Eleventh Edition offers a comprehensive set of lab exercises to accompany any physical geography class. The manual is organized to meet your needs, providing the flexibility to pick and choose a series of short lab exercises each week. Lab exercises incorporate Google Earth(tm)explorations and provide review of concepts such as Doppler Radar and Continental Glaciation, while more than 40 QR codes now link you to a variety of media resources including Google Earth videos, color topographic maps and images and satellite movie loops. Also new to this edition is a lab on soils, and a field GIS lab exercise. High quality color stereoscope images and aerial photographs are now included in lab manual to give you an integrated picture of locations and landforms.

Author : Sue Reed
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1771422750

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What can we do, right now, in our own landscapes, to help solve climate change? Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire - but we're already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done. Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response - instead of wringing our hands, let's roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home. Topics include: Working actively to shrink our carbon footprint through mindful landscaping and gardening Creating cleaner air and water Increasing physical comfort during hotter seasons Supporting birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife. This book is the ideal tool for homeowners, gardeners, and landscape professionals who want to be part of the solution to climate change. AWARDS GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment

Author : Allen Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231140416

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The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.

Author : Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000562360

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First published in 1986, Landscape Meanings and Values presents a major contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between theory and practice in landscape analysis and planning. It brings together a number of the most eminent researchers, commentators and practitioners from both the United States of America and Britain to pursue the fundamental meanings and values in landscape. The insights into the theory behind landscape management will force a fundamental rethink of the role of landscape architect and land management. Academic researchers will find the feedback from eminent practitioners a stimulation for more practical research. The collection of ideas in the last chapter provides a unique synthesis of the need for an expansion of study into the fundamental significance of landscape today. This book will be of value to students of geography, environmental studies, landscape architecture and land management.

Author : C. Martijn van der Heide
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135125120

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This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient – not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound.