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Progress in old world palaeothnobotany : a retrospective view ... 20 years of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany
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ISBN: 9061918812 9789061918813 Year: 1990 Publisher: Rotterdam Balkema

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This text gives details of four collections of 300 mammal and bird drawings connected with Levaillant's research. It covers the history, taxonomy, nomenclature and zoogeography of mammals.

Conducting environmental impact assessment in developing countries
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ISBN: 9280809652 Year: 1999 Publisher: Tokyo United Nations university press

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"Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a policy and management tool for planning and decision-making."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume includes an introduction to EIA, and explains its process, methods, and tools. It discusses the implementation of specific environmental management measures and the need for their constant monitoring. The authors also explore the writing and reviewing of an EIA report and the process of translating and communicating the findings of an EIA study to decision makers and the public. The book also examines emerging trends in EIA and concludes with a number of illustrative case studies."--Jacket.

Island biogeography : ecology, evolution, and conservation
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ISBN: 0198500203 0198500211 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Work on evolution on islands has a long-established biogeographical pedigree, stretching back to the work of Darwin and Wallace. Research generated ideas, theories, and models which have played a central role in the development of mainstream ecology, evolutionary biology, and biogeography.Island Biogeography is a new textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students. This is the first comprehensive book to be written on the topic since 1981. It provides a much needed synthesis of recent development across the discipline, linking current theoretical debates with applied island ecology. Some themes that the book covers include: the nature and formation of island environments, island ecological theories concerning species numbers, species assembly, and composition, and an assessment of the human impact on island biodiversity.Written by an author who has been researching and teaching biogeography for many years, Island Biogeography is wide-ranging, authoritative, and accessible to students from across geography and the life sciences. This is the first truly modern textbook on a fascinating and important subject in evolution and ecology.

The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space.
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ISBN: 0198278802 0198280106 9780198280101 9780198278801 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into 'view', and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of 'landscape' may be used as productive point of departure from which to explore analgous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively by used to interrogate the Western construct.The Introduction argues that landscape should be conceptualized as a cultural process: a process located between place and space, inside and outside, image and representation. In the chapters that follow, nine noted anthropologists and an art historian exemplify this approach, drawing on a diverse set of case studies. These range from an analysis of Indian calendar art to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the creation of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes particular to the Papua New Guinea rainforests. The anthropological perspectives developed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, art historians, and archaeologists will be no less interested than anthropologists in this re-envisaging of the notion of landscape.

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Landscape assessment --- Human geography --- Geographical perception --- Space perception --- Cognition and culture --- Cognition and culture. --- Geographical perception. --- Human geography. --- Landscape assessment. --- Space perception. --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Perceptie en Beleving. --- Anthropogéographie --- Assessment [Landscape ] --- Biogéographie humaine --- Cognitie en cultuur --- Cultural geography --- Distribution géographique de l'homme --- Environmental perception --- Environnement [Perception de l' ] --- Espace géographique --- Espace--Perception --- Evaluation du paysage --- Geografie [Menselijke ] --- Geografische waarnemingen --- Geographical distribution of man --- Geography [Cultural ] --- Geography [Human ] --- Geography [Social ] --- Homme -- Distribution géographique --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Landschapsevaluatie --- Maps [Mental ] --- Menselijke geografie --- Oecoumène --- Oekoumène --- Paysage [Perception du ] --- Paysage--Evaluation --- Perception [Landscape ] --- Perception de l'environnement --- Perception du paysage --- Perception géographique --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Représentation mentale de l'environnement --- Ruimteperceptie --- Ruimtewaarneming --- Spatial perception --- Écoumène --- Ékoumène --- Perception géographique --- Cognition et culture --- Géographie humaine --- Paysages --- Perception spatiale --- Evaluation --- #SBIB:316.334.5U13 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Assessment, Landscape --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: sociale aspecten van de ruimte, sociale ecologie --- Toegepaste antropologie

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