[PDF] Wetland Heritage eBook

Author : Jon A. Kusler
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :

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With the increasingly critical need for innovative approaches that accommodate both wetland protection and economic growth, Our National Wetland Heritage: A Protection Guide, 2nd Edition provides concrete information on local wetland resources, how to set your wetland protection policies, new techniques that have come to the forefront since the first edition, and incentive programs that fairly and effectively involve private landowners.

Author : Barbara A. Purdy
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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The 27 papers in this volume have been developed from presentations made at an international wetlands archaeology conference held in Gainsville, Florida in December 1999. The theme of the conference was: The Significance of the Survival of Organic Materials from Archaeological Contexts. Individuals from seventeen countries spoke about shipwrecks, bog bodies, cenotes of sacrifice, art styles, perishable technologies, palynology, wetlands management, conservation methods, and updates on famous sites. Time periods ranged from the early Pleistocene to a few hundred years ago. As the international composition of the delegates (including a large number of North American scientists) indicates, wetland archaeology has emerged in recent years as a unique discipline facing unique difficulties which are encountered on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Elizabeth Hathaway Thompson
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biotic communities
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The first field guide to all of Vermont's natural communities

Author : John Charles Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1498599958

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Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the book spans pre-settlement indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European colonization, and contemporary Australian engagements with wetland habitats. The contributors situate the Australian emphasis in international cultural and ecological contexts. Case studies from Perth, Western Australia, provide practical examples of the conservation of wetlands as sites of interlinked natural and cultural heritage. The volume will appeal to readers with interests in anthropology, Australian studies, cultural studies, ecological science, environmental studies, and heritage protection.

Author : Kathryn Bernick
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774842555

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Hidden Dimensions is a collection of essays drawn from papers presented at an international conference in Vancouver, British Columbia in April 1995. Scholars from around the globe examine several aspects of wetland archaeology in North America, Mexico, Europe, eastern Siberia, and New Zealand. Some of the essays in this volume explore environmental and historical contexts of wet-sites as well as past human adaptation to wetland environments. Others concentrate on the contributions of wetland archaeology to reconstructions of cultural history and the interpretation of unique perishable materials. In addition to discussions on the dynamic nature of wetlands and concern about the future of the cultural resources they contain, the authors look at practical issues of land management and object conservation. In Hidden Dimensions the authors seek to raise awareness of the significance of wetland archaeology issues at a time when wetlands around the globe are rapidly shrinking and their cultural contents are at risk of disappearing.

Author : Paul A. Keddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521739675

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This text provides a synthesis of the existing field of wetland ecology using a few central themes, including key environmental factors that produce wetland community types and some unifying problems such as assembly rules, restoration and conservation.

Author : Francesco Menotti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199573492

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This Handbook sets out the key issues and debates in the theory and practice of wetland archaeology which has played a crucial role in studies of our past. Due to the high quantity of preserved organic materials found in humid environments, the study of wetlands has allowed archaeologists to reconstruct people's everyday lives in great detail.