Palaeoenvironment And Sea Level Changes During The Early Holocene On The S Dert Rn Peninsula S Dermanland Eastern Sweden
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Palaeoenvironment And Sea Level Changes During The Early Holocene On The S Dert Rn Peninsula S Dermanland Eastern Sweden
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Author : Jan Risberg
language : en
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Release Date : 1991
Palaeoenvironment And Sea Level Changes During The Early Holocene On The S Dert Rn Peninsula S Dermanland Eastern Sweden written by Jan Risberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Paleoecology categories.
Quaternary Sea Level Changes
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Author : Colin V. Murray-Wallace
language : en
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Release Date : 2014-02-25
Quaternary Sea Level Changes written by Colin V. Murray-Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Paleoceanography categories.
An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Holocene Sea Level Change In The Western North Pacific Marginal Seas And Coastal Responses To Recent Sea Level Change In The Deep Bay Wetlands
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Author : Yiying Sun
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-01-26
Holocene Sea Level Change In The Western North Pacific Marginal Seas And Coastal Responses To Recent Sea Level Change In The Deep Bay Wetlands written by Yiying Sun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with categories.
This dissertation, "Holocene Sea Level Change in the Western North Pacific Marginal Seas and Coastal Responses to Recent Sea Level Change in the Deep Bay Wetlands" by Yiying, Sun, 孙奕映, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The coast of East and Southeast Asia is a far-field region and thus a scientifically valuable site for sea level and coastal study. The high population density in low-lying coastal areas of this region means a high vulnerability to human society if sea level is going to rise in the future. This research is designed to tackle two scientific issues: (1) Analyze the past local land level change including the levering effect and tectonic movements; and (2) Investigate how coastal system have responded to past sea level change. In order to tackle the first issue, three glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models were simulated to produce a series of predictions for the study area, and 560 sea level data from published sources were re-analyzed and re-calibrated to convert them into useable sea level index points for sea level reconstructions. After a comparison between the model predictions and the reconstructed sea level histories, the effects of GIA, levering effects and tectonic movements are identified and assessed. The results show the three coastal sectors have had different responses to sea-level change. The Sundaland Block as a teconically stable region is more sensitive to GIA intensity changes. The Cathaysian Block is also sensitive to GIA intensity changes. But the coast was affected by small magnitude, localized uplift and subsidence. These tectonic movements can be clearly distinguished from the GIA processes, paving the way for eventual quantification of land movements. The Yangtze Block and North China Craton are located in low to middle latitudes, but still show characteristics of far-field GIA. Tectonic movement in this sector is relatively negligible, except the west Bohai Bay where subsidence is more obvious. For the second issue, the sedimentary sequence of a protected coastal wetland (Mai Po) in Hong Kong was investigated. Its developmental history and how it has responded to the past sea level change were examined. The results show, before 1000 years ago, the Mai Po area was a subtidal area, with sandy silt and abundant marine shells deposited in seabed implying an environment under deeper water and with better sea water exchange. A change took place about 800 years ago, and the area became a low energy environment with finer sediment and no marine shell. Soon after this, the sedimentation slowed down markedly possibly due to a fall in sea level. By about 200 years ago, mangrove vegetation colonized the site and kept expanding seawards progressively. In the past 100 years, due to human activity in the Deep Bay area, sedimentary supply from both Hong Kong and Shenzhen has increased. As sea level has also risen, another phase of rapid sedimentation takes place in the lower part of the mangrove forest and current mudflats. Subjects: Sea level - South China Sea Sea level - Yellow Sea Sea level - East China Sea Geology, Stratigrahic - Holcene
The Urban Mind
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Author : Paul J. J. Sinclair
language : en
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Release Date : 2010
The Urban Mind written by Paul J. J. Sinclair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cities and towns, Ancient categories.
Sustainability Or Collapse
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Author : Robert Costanza
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-01-21
Sustainability Or Collapse written by Robert Costanza and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-21 with Science categories.
Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.
Time And Complexity In Historical Ecology
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Author : William Balée
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006-06-22
Time And Complexity In Historical Ecology written by William Balée and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-22 with Science categories.
This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment. Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and languages. Treating the landscape like a text, these researchers decipher patterns and meaning in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other regions in the neotropics. They show how local peoples have changed the landscape over time to fit their needs by managing and modifying species diversity, enhancing landscape heterogeneity, and controlling ecological disturbance. In turn, the environment itself becomes a form of architecture rich with historical and archaeological significance. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology explores thousands of years of ecological history while also addressing important contemporary issues, such as biodiversity and genetic variation and change. Engagingly written and expertly researched, this book introduces and exemplifies a unique method for better understanding the link between humans and the biosphere.
Geographical Information Systems In Archaeology
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Author : James Conolly
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-04
Geographical Information Systems In Archaeology written by James Conolly and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-04 with Science categories.
Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map algebra; spatial operations including the calculation of slope and aspect, filtering and erosion modeling; methods for analysing regions; visibility analysis; network analysis including hydrological modeling; the production of high quality output for paper and electronic publication; and the use and production of metadata. Offering an extensive range of archaeological examples, it is an invaluable source of practical information for all archaeologists, whether engaged in cultural resource management or academic research. This is essential reading for both the novice and the advanced user.
Wisdom Sits In Places
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1996-08-01
Wisdom Sits In Places written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-01 with Social Science categories.
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names--where they come from and what they mean to Apaches. "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."--N. Scott Momaday "In Wisdom Sits in Places Keith Basso lifts a veil on the most elemental poetry of human experience, which is the naming of the world. In so doing he invests his scholarship with that rarest of scholarly qualities: a sense of spiritual exploration. Through his clear eyes we glimpse the spirit of a remarkable people and their land, and when we look away, we see our own world afresh."--William deBuys "A very exciting book--authoritative, fully informed, extremely thoughtful, and also engagingly written and a joy to read. Guiding us vividly among the landscapes and related story-tellings of the Western Apache, Basso explores in a highly readable way the role of language in the complex but compelling theme of a people's attachment to place. An important book by an eminent scholar."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Human Impact On Ancient Environments
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Author : Charles L. Redman
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Human Impact On Ancient Environments written by Charles L. Redman and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed long-term sustainable relationships with their environments—and thousands in which the relationships were destructive. Charles Redman demonstrates that much can be learned from an improved understanding of peoples who, through seemingly rational decisions, degraded their environments and threatened their own survival. By discussing archaeological case studies from around the world—from the deforestation of the Mayan lowlands to soil erosion in ancient Greece to the almost total depletion of resources on Easter Island—Redman reveals the long-range coevolution of culture and environment and clearly shows the impact that ancient peoples had on their world. These case studies focus on four themes: habitat transformation and animal extinctions, agricultural practices, urban growth, and the forces that accompany complex society. They show that humankind's commitment to agriculture has had cultural consequences that have conditioned our perception of the environment and reveal that societies before European contact did not necessarily live the utopian existences that have been popularly supposed. Whereas most books on this topic tend to treat human societies as mere reactors to environmental stimuli, Redman's volume shows them to be active participants in complex and evolving ecological relationships. Human Impact on Ancient Environments demonstrates how archaeological research can provide unique insights into the nature of human stewardship of the Earth and can permanently alter the way we think about humans and the environment.
For Hunger Proof Cities
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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 1999
For Hunger Proof Cities written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Electronic books categories.
For Hunger Proof Cities: Sustainable urban food systems