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Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 85.00This new edition of these good practice guidelines provides advice on assessing the landscape and the visual impacts of development projects. Issues covered by the guidelines include: integration of landscape and visual issues into the development process; the need for a transparent approach to landscape and visual impact assessment; describing the... more...
Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in environmental perspective
BRILL 2004; US$ 170.00Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, this work aims to make a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, looking at their pre-industrial experiences. more...
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00A study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. more...
Northeast and Midwest United States
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00An engaging, personalized look at the interplay between people and nature in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, from prehistory to the present. more...
The Spatial Factor in African History
BRILL 2004; US$ 81.00In this collection authors apply spatial analysis to case studies of social, economic, and political dynamics in West, Central, and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Also included is a lengthy essay re-interpreting tropical Africa, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. more...
Canada and Arctic North America
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 85.00This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. Climate change, logging, drilling, prospecting, and hunting. more...
Southeast Asia
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 85.00An in-depth, historical encyclopedia of Southeast Asia, with coverage from prehistoric times to the end of the 20th century for each country in the region. Colonial playground ... hotbed of communism ... exotic tourist destination ... nexus of terrorism and the drug trade. more...
Cultures of Contamination, Volume 14
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 99.95This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed. Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a better understanding of the constraining conditions and will help guide us in meeting the twin... more...
Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99Aims to tie together various perspectives, insights and constructions pertaining to landscapes and landscape representations from different theoretical and methodological positions as well as from diverse geographical and historical contexts in order to elucidate and illustrate processes of cultural transformation inscribed in space. more...
The Grasslands of the United States
ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 85.00ÒTreeless, level, and semi-arid.Ó Walter Prescott WebbÕs famous description of the Great Plains is really only part of their story. From their creation at the end of the Ice Age to the ongoing problems of depopulation, soil erosion, polluted streams, and depleted groundwater aquifers, human interaction with the prairies has often been controversial.||The... more...









