Tag: Ecological

Free Download The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation
by Elke Weik, Chris Land, Ronald Hartz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110998327 | 328 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.44 MB

Free Download Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Design for Sustainable Cities by Keitaro Ito
English | EPUB | 2021 | 373 Pages | ISBN : 4431568549 | 250 MB
This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions. It provides an interesting meeting point between Asian, European and North America specialists (researchers, planners, landscape architects) studying urban biodiversity; urban biodiversity and green space; relations between people and biodiversity. The most important feature of this book is the unique point of view from each contributor towards "the relationship between nature and people in urban areas", in the context of the ecosystem and biodiversity in urban areas and how to manage them.

Free Download The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization by Mohamed Amer Meziane, translated by Jonathan Adjemian
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1804291773 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.7 MB
"An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane’s breathtaking analysis of the making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where the very layers of earth’s riches are at its center."

Free Download William K Smith, Thomas C. Vogelmann, Christa Critchley, "Photosynthetic Adaptation: Chloroplast to Landscape (Ecological Studies, 178)"
English | 2004 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1441919651, 0387220798 | PDF | 4,9 mb
The impacts of global change depend upon the capacity of plants for light and CO2 capture. This book thoroughly studies photosynthetic mechanisms at each structural level, from the cellular to leaves, crown, and canopy. The authors question whether photosynthetic adaptations take place primarily at the metabolic and biochemical level or through changes in structure and form, or both. In the interest of genetic engineering and agricultural applications, the relative importance of genes controlling both metabolic and light reactions as well as the structure, arrangement and orientation of photosynthesis are analyzed.

Free Download Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data With Ade4 by Jean Thioulouse
English | EPUB | 2018 | 334 Pages | ISBN : 1493988484 | 95.5 MB
This book introduces the ade4 package for R which provides multivariate methods for the analysis of ecological data. It is implemented around the mathematical concept of the duality diagram, and provides a unified framework for multivariate analysis. The authors offer a detailed presentation of the theoretical framework of the duality diagram and also of its application to real-world ecological problems.

Free Download Professor Seth Peabody, "Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema "
English | ISBN: 1640141618 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 15 MB
From its beginnings, some of German film’s most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans. Heimat films, "city symphonies," mountain films, and rubble films all blend the boundary between landscape documentary and fiction film. Yet German film studies has been slow to adopt an environmental focus, concentrating (understandably) on its subject matter’s political implications. This book reveals critical connections between German film, sociopolitical context, and environment, showing it to have been a creative catalyst for the social and ecological transformation of the Anthropocene.

Free Download Gerassimos Arapis, Nadezhda Goncharova, Philippe Baveye, "Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors"
English | 2006 | pages: 375 | ISBN: 1402044747, 1402044755 | PDF | 11,3 mb
The science of ecotoxicology and the practice of ecological risk assessment are evolving rapidly. Ecotoxicology as a subject area came into prominence in the 1960s after the publication of Rachel Carson’s book on the impact of pesticides on the environment. The rise of public and scientific concern for the effects of chemical pollutants on the environment in the 1960s and 1970s led to the development of the discipline of ecotoxicology, a science that takes into account the effects of chemicals in the context of ecology. Until the early 1980s, in spite of public concern and interest among scientists, the assessment of ecological risks associated with natural or synthetic pollutants was not considered a priority issue by most government. However, as the years passed, a better understanding of the importance of ecotoxicology emerged and with it, in some countries, the progressive formalization of an ecological risk assessment process. Ecological risk assessment is a conceptual tool for organizing and analyzing data and information to evaluate the likelihood that one or more stressors are causing or will cause adverse ecological effects. Ecological risk assessment allows risk managers to consider available scientific information when selecting a course of action, in addition to other factors that may affect their decision (e. g. , social, legal, political, or economic). Ecological risk assessment includes three phases (problem formulation, analysis, and risk characterization).

Free Download Tanja Beer, "Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance"
English | ISBN: 981167177X | 2021 | 246 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mainstream through their relational and reciprocal engagement with place, audiences, materials, and processes. Beyond its radical philosophy and framework, Ecoscenography makes a compelling case for pursuing an ecological ethic in theatre and performance design, not only as a moral imperative, but for the extraordinary possibilities that it offers for more-than-human engagement. Based on her personal insights as a leading ecological researcher and practitioner, Beer offers a rich resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike, opening up new processes and aesthetics of theatrical design that enhance the environmental and social advocacy of the field.

Free Download Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources of Inland Waters of the Western Balkans: Freshwater Fish Stocks, Sustainable Use and Conservation
by Vladica Simić, Snežana Simić
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031369254 | 714 Pages | True PDF | 33 MB

Free Download Laura Smith, "Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition: A Rewilding of American Letters"
English | ISBN: 3030861473 | 2022 | 373 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying―restorying―restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines how their writings on nature, wildness, wilderness, conservation, preservation, and restoration have variously inspired and been translated into ecological restoration programs and campaigns by environmental organizations. The featured authors are Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) at Walden Pond, John Muir (1838-1914) in Yosemite National Park, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) at his family’s Wisconsin sand farm, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) in the Everglades, and Edward Abbey (1927-1989) in Glen Canyon. This book combines environmental history, literature, biography, philosophy, and politics in a commentary on considering (and developing) environmental literature’s place in conversations on restoration ecology, ecological restoration, and rewilding.