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Soils and Societies
Soils and Societies The White Horse Press Book List Order Form Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History J.R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter (eds) This multi-authored volume shows some of the ways in which soils ...
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Books
Verena Winiwarter (eds)Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History Björn-Ola LinnérThe Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population-Resource Crises Richard H. Grove and John Chappell(eds) El Nino: History and ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
These goods and services include: (i) providing food, fiber, fodder, shelter, medicines, and energy; (ii) processing and storing carbon and nutrients; (iii) assimilating wastes; (iv) purifying water, regulating water runoff, and moderating floods; (v) building soils and ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Human Settlements and Infrastructure: In a number of islands, vital infrastructure and major concentrations ... , traditional skills and knowledge), which also may be at risk from climate change. In some island societies, these assets are just as important as marketed goods and services. ...
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Argument - Impact of Urbanization
In all modern, industrialized societies, only a small fraction of the population (between about 3% and 10%) works in agriculture ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
In early Europe, Greek and Roman societies collected human excreta and used it as fertilizer. The Romans found that urine contained high value nutrients and collecting it was a good business ... build and operate expensive sewage works would diminish and the water quality in the rivers would improve. In developing countries, areas with high groundwater tables and collapsing sandy soils are ...
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RCF: Introduction for Agroforestry and Ethnobotany
Rather than focus on the uses of these plants by societies in the past, I have chosen to address their current uses and importance to the rural and urban ... restinga soils can have a pH of 6 or higher. See Denevan (1984), Hiraoka (1986), Denevan and Padoch (1988), Coomes (1995), de Jong (1996), Paitán (1997), Coomes and Burt (1997), Paitán and Kalliola (1998), and ...
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Roger Sands - People - New Zealand School of Forestry - University of Canterbury - New Zealand
World FORE 102 Forests and Societies (Distance learning) Top Recent Publications Sands, R., Haramburu, Ed., Wood, M. and Douglas, R.A. Effects of harvesting traffic and ripping on the growth of ... , R., Clinton, P., Payn, T. and M. Skinner. Carbon and net nitrogen mineralization in two forest soils amended with different concentrations of biuret. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35, 2003: 855-866. ...
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A brief history of the relationship between humans and wildlife - MarineBio.org
The bare hills of much of the Middle East are the result of removal of forests thousands of years ago, followed by erosion of soils and intensive grazing by goats and other livestock. The grazing continues today, keeping the hills in a perpetual state of biological poverty and low productivity. However, agricultural societies can only ...
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Forest, Range, and Wildland Soils - News
SSSA, the Geological Society of America and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. Please review the ten themes used to guide the meeting and voice your opinion for symposia by ... and southern Ontario 1/15/2007 Dr. Stephen Hart offers up his compendium of "hot" and "classic" papers in forest soils and ecosystem ecology used in his "Advanced Topics In Ecosystem Ecology And Wildland Soils ...
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