Contaminated Landscapes
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Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Soil remediation categories.
Entangled Stewardship
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Author : Margaret E. Woolf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Entangled Stewardship written by Margaret E. Woolf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Architecture categories.
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is reflected in all forms of industry, including agricultural land uses are all rooted in the same industrial methodology that leads to homogenized land-uses. In the race for convenience and profit, these spaces are created to limit risk, increase predictability and economic expectancy. The scale of this risk aversion and flows of capital are referred to by architectural theorist Keller Easterling as “infrastructure space”. Infrastructure space is described as the buildings and processes created for the extraction of capital and strictly defined by priority of networked financed systems, governance, and territory. These efficiencies are rooted and perpetuated by the 19th century ideas of Enlightenment progressivism, which emphasize linearity and efficiency in pursuit of a singular goal. These ideological frameworks, coupled with modern capitalism lend themselves to the current epoch of the Anthropocene, marked most distinctly by the landscapes suggested above and the long distance destruction of landscapes and ecologies. However, anthropologist Anna Tsing, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, refuses to look away from these issues, or to reduce the earth’s urgency to an abstract system of causative destruction rooted in undifferentiated capitalism. Instead, she argues that precarity—in opposition to the supposed promises of Modern Progress— characterizes the lives and deaths of all earthly creatures. She offers that this precarity offers room for intervention in the unplanned, as part of a larger framework for the “arts of living on a damaged planet,” and as a necessary “skill for living in ruins.” Tsing’s thinking coupled with Donna Haraway’s notions of “speculative fabulation” for inventing in sensitive ways by re-unfolding in order to re-play with what has been sidelined in history, a whole series of possibilities that are still active today in the margins of society, to transform things and one of those things is “radical kinship” offer directions for how to intervene. To intervene in the ruins of agricultural and infrastructural landscapes suggests going beyond the strategies and methodologies of recent architectural thinking. By emphasizing kinship, assemblage relationships within contaminated diversity,“infrastructural principle”, the homogeneous and ruinistic landscapes might be alternatively re-thought
Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes
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language : en
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Release Date : 2011
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Earth Repair
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Author : Leila Darwish
language : en
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Earth Repair written by Leila Darwish and has been published by New Society Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Details grassroots bioremediation techniques and strategies for transforming environmental despair into action, including the use of plants to extract toxins and fungi to clean contaminated water and soil.
Hazardous Journeys Exploring Toxic Landscapes
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Author : Veron
language : de
Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
Release Date : 2024-05-27
Hazardous Journeys Exploring Toxic Landscapes written by Veron and has been published by Tredition Gmbh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-27 with Nature categories.
Venturing into the Hazardous: Delving into Toxic Landscapes The exploration of toxic landscapes, places contaminated with toxic substances due to natural or human-induced causes, might seem paradoxical at first glance. Why would one willingly venture into danger and investigate areas that pose a threat to both humans and the environment? The motivations behind this scientific discipline are multifaceted, ranging from the pursuit of new knowledge to the protection of the environment and human health. Scientific Research: Unveiling the Unknown Toxic landscapes offer scientists unique insights into the intricate interactions between the environment, organisms, and pollutants. By studying these areas, they can gain new knowledge about the toxicity of pollutants, their effects on ecosystems, and the resilience of organisms. This research can lead to a better understanding of the processes that contribute to environmental pollution and its consequences. As a result, new methods can be developed for decontaminating contaminated sites and developing more resistant plant and animal species. Historical Significance: Lessons from the Past The exploration of toxic landscapes also holds significant historical importance. Many of the areas studied today were sites of past environmental disasters or industrial pollution. By analyzing pollutants and their impacts on the environment, scientists can draw conclusions about the consequences of human activities and thus contribute to preventing similar catastrophes in the future.
Contaminated Forests
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Author : Igor Linkov
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Contaminated Forests written by Igor Linkov and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere have increased dramatically over the last century and many of these changes are attributable to anthropogenic activities. The influence of acid rain has been well studied, but there has been no extensive exploration of other pollutants, such as toxic chemicals, heavy metals and radionuclides. Natural ecosystems, especially forests, tend to accumulate many of these pollutants which subsequently can affect ecosystem health. These contaminants may be very damaging to the environment in Eastern Europe, where the rapid disappearance of forest is the result not only of contamination but also of poor forest management practices. The current book is designed to reduce the uncertainty in our current knowledge of forest radioecology. The three topics it embraces are (a) Modelling, (b) Measurements and Data, and (c) Countermeasures and Risk Assessment.
Environmental Risk Assessment And Management From A Landscape Perspective
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Author : Lawrence A. Kapustka
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Environmental Risk Assessment And Management From A Landscape Perspective written by Lawrence A. Kapustka and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An important guide to assessing and managing the environment from a landscape perspective Ecological relationships are nested within the landscape. Identifying the relevant spatial and temporal scales is critical for an effective understanding of ecological functions that human societies depend upon. Moreover, human encroachment into natural areas, or changes in climate, can alter spatial relationships, which in turn can negatively affect vital plant and wildlife patterns—and weaken economic structures needed to sustain human societies. This book is the first to combine multiple disciplines into one cohesive strategy to study these crucial connections, and looks toward building a social paradigm that embraces the dynamics of ecological systems. This book: Integrates landscape ecology, environmental risk assessment, valuation of ecological goods and services, and environmental management decision processes into one single source Includes chapters on quantitative measures, Bayesian modeling,¿economic analysis, and sustainable landscapes Covers marine, forest, agricultural, and pharmaceutical risk assessment Has a chapter on predicting climate change risk to ecosystems Has a companion ftp site with color graphics, animations, and risk assessment tools With material that is accessible across all knowledge levels, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective moves beyond looking solely at chemical contaminants to diagnose environmental threats, and aims to accomplish practical risk assessment in a manner that supports long-term sustainable management.
Impacts Of Point Polluters On Terrestrial Biota
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Author : Mikhail Kozlov
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-07-28
Impacts Of Point Polluters On Terrestrial Biota written by Mikhail Kozlov and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-28 with Science categories.
The adverse consequences of pollution impact on terrestrial ecosystems have been under careful investigation since the beginning of the twentieth century. Several thousand case studies have documented the biotic effects occurring in contaminated areas. However, after more than a century of research, ecologists are still far from understanding the effects of pollution on biota. Only a few generalisations have been made on the basis of extensive monitoring programs and numerous expe- ments with industrial contaminants. The need to reveal general patterns in the responses of terrestrial biota to ind- trial pollution and to identify the sources of variation in these responses became obvious more than a decade ago. At about that time, our team initiated a quanti- tive research synthesis of the biotic effects caused by industrial pollution, based on 1 a meta-analysis of published data. All meta-analyses conducted so far (covering diversity and abundance of soil microfungi, diversity of vascular plants, diversity and abundance of terrestrial arthropods, and plant growth and reproduction) c- sistently showed high heterogeneity in the responses of terrestrial biota to industrial pollution. At the same time, they demonstrated an unexpected shortage of infor- tion suitable for meta-analyses, as well as a considerable influence of methodology of primary studies on the outcome of the research syntheses. To overcome the identified problems, we designed a comparative study, the results of which are reported in this book.
Phyto
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Author : Kate Kennen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Phyto written by Kate Kennen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Architecture categories.
Winner of the 2017 CBHL Literature Award of Excellence in Landscape Design and Architecture Phyto presents the concepts of phytoremediation and phytotechnology in one comprehensive guide, illustrating when plants can be considered for the uptake, removal or mitigation of on-site pollutants. Current scientific case studies are covered, highlighting the advantages and limitations of plant-based cleanup. Typical contaminant groups found in the built environment are explained, and plant lists for mitigation of specific contaminants are included where applicable. This is the first book to address the benefits of phytotechnologies from a design point of view, taking complex scientific terms and translating the research into an easy-to-understand reference book for those involved in creating planting solutions. Typically, phytotechnology planting techniques are currently employed post-site contamination to help clean up already contaminated soil by taking advantage of the positive effects that plants can have upon harmful toxins and chemicals. This book presents a new concept to create projective planting designs with preventative phytotechnology abilities, ‘phytobuffering’ where future pollution may be expected for particular site programs. Filled with tables, photographs and detailed drawings, Kennen and Kirkwood's text guides the reader through the process of selecting plants for their aesthetic and environmental qualities, combined with their contaminant-removal benefits.
Drosscape Wasting Land Urban America
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Author : Alan Berger
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2007-05-03
Drosscape Wasting Land Urban America written by Alan Berger and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-03 with Architecture categories.
Annotation Do you really know what's under that new house you just bought? How about what's underneath the neighbourhood playground? Was the big-box retailer down the street built atop a toxic site?These are just a few of the worrisome scenarios as our cities begin a stealthy relocation of industrial facilities from the inner city to the urban periphery. These are the places Alan Berger has coined "drosscapes," and this is his guide to the previously ignored field of waste landscapes.