Tag: Habitat

Sacred Habitat Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic


Free Download Sacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755) by Ran Segev
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 0271095334 | True EPUB | 230 pages | 18.7 MB
Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new scholarly approaches, methods, and empirical data from their studies of ecology to promote Catholic goals and incorporate American nature into centuries-old church traditions.

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Spatial Observation of Giant Panda Habitat Techniques and Methods


Free Download Spatial Observation of Giant Panda Habitat: Techniques and Methods by Xinyuan Wang , Jing Zhen , Qingkai Meng
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 391 Pages | ISBN : 9811987939 | 149.7 MB
This book evaluates the past, present, and future habitat suitability of giant pandas based on spatial observation technology involving optical remote sensing, microwave remote sensing, and LiDAR to discover the mysterious ecological environment of giant panda habitat. Considering the problems faced by the world natural heritage site protection, it takes the world natural heritage site "Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries – Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains" as the research area, exemplifies systematically the various techniques and methodologies of spatial information technology for monitoring, evaluation, and prediction of rare and endangered species habitats, and provides scientific suggestions for sustainable development of giant panda habitat based on a series of comprehensive case analysis at Wolong national nature reserve and Ya’an prefecture, Sichuan province, China. The book serves both as a textbook in the field of natural heritage protection, remote sensing, and GIS application, as well as a reference for managing natural heritage sites.

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Water Vole Field Signs and Habitat Assessment A Practical Guide to Water Vole Surveys


Free Download Mike Dean, "Water Vole Field Signs and Habitat Assessment: A Practical Guide to Water Vole Surveys"
English | ISBN: 178427254X | 2021 | 120 pages | PDF | 10 MB
An essential guide to assist those surveying for water voles, whether as a professional ecological consultant, a researcher or simply an interested amateur. This book provides detailed descriptions of all the habitats used by water voles, including ideal habitats as well as less typical places, with annotated photos to help the surveyor home in on just the right areas to look. It also contains a comprehensive photographic reference guide to assist in the correct identification of water vole field signs, and explains how to distinguish them from those of similar species. Tips on where and how to search for field signs are also provided, along with guidance on how best to record survey data.

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The Moral Habitat


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English | ISBN: 0192896350 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In The Moral Habitat, Barbara Herman offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant’s moral and political philosophy. The study begins with an investigation of some understudied imperfect duties which, surprisingly, tell us some important but generally unnoticed facts about what it is to be a moral agent. The second part of the book launches a substantial reinterpretation of Kant’s ethics as a system of duties, juridical and ethical, perfect and imperfect, that can incorporate what we learn from imperfect duties and do much more. This system of duties provides the structure for what Herman calls a moral habitat: a made environment, created by and for free and equal persons living together. It is a dynamic system, with duties from different spheres shaping and being affected by each other, each level further interpreting its core anti-subordination value. In the final part, Herman takes up some implications and applications of this moral habitat idea. From considering what would be involved, morally, in recognizing a human right to housing to some meta-ethical issues about objectivity and our responsibility for moral change, we come to appreciate the resources of this holistic agent-centered Kantian view of morality.

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Unfuck Your Habitat You’re Better Than Your Mess


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English | 2017 | pages: 213 | ISBN: 1250102952, 1509830200, ASIN: B01H03IBHS | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who’d describe our current living situation as a "f-king mess" that we "really need to get around to fixing one day". Unf-k Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems – the ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs, people without kids but living with roommates, and people with mental illnesses or physical limitations. Most organizational books are aimed at stay-at-home moms and people who seem to have unimaginable amounts of free time. They assume we all iron our sheets, have linen napkins to match our table runners, and can keep plants alive for longer than a week. Basically, they ignore most of us living here in the real world.

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Spatial Observation of Giant Panda Habitat Techniques and Methods


Free Download Spatial Observation of Giant Panda Habitat: Techniques and Methods by Xinyuan Wang , Jing Zhen , Qingkai Meng
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 391 Pages | ISBN : 9811987939 | 149.7 MB
This book evaluates the past, present, and future habitat suitability of giant pandas based on spatial observation technology involving optical remote sensing, microwave remote sensing, and LiDAR to discover the mysterious ecological environment of giant panda habitat. Considering the problems faced by the world natural heritage site protection, it takes the world natural heritage site "Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries – Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains" as the research area, exemplifies systematically the various techniques and methodologies of spatial information technology for monitoring, evaluation, and prediction of rare and endangered species habitats, and provides scientific suggestions for sustainable development of giant panda habitat based on a series of comprehensive case analysis at Wolong national nature reserve and Ya’an prefecture, Sichuan province, China. The book serves both as a textbook in the field of natural heritage protection, remote sensing, and GIS application, as well as a reference for managing natural heritage sites.

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