Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America
Title | Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America PDF eBook |
Author | William Emery Doolittle |
Publisher | Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780199250714 |
This is a significant contribution to the engaging and enduring theme of landscape creation and environmental adaptation in North America, which challenges established theories about native agriculture. Richly illustrated with over 200 maps, drawings, and photographs it contains a wealth of information for both scholars and students and is likely to be the standard reference work on the topic for many years to come.
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
Title | Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | William M. Denevan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN | 9780199257690 |
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.
Native Trees for North American Landscapes
Title | Native Trees for North American Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Sternberg |
Publisher | Portland : Timber Press |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780881926071 |
Presents profiles of 650 species and varieties and over five hundred cultivars, with text and photographs of flowers and fruit, native and adaptive range, culture, problems, and best seasonal features.
Urban Wildlife Habitats
Title | Urban Wildlife Habitats PDF eBook |
Author | Lowell W. Adams |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0816622132 |
Urban Wildlife Habitats was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In cities, towns, and villages, between buildings and parking lots, streets and sidewalks, and polluted streams and rivers, there is ever less space for the "natural," the plants and animals that once were at home across North America. In this first book-length study of the subject, Lowell W. Adams reviews the impact of urban and suburban growth on natural plant and animal communities and reveals how, with appropriate landscape planning and urban development, cities and towns can be made more accommodating for a wide diversity of species, including our own. Soils and ground surface, air, water, and noise pollution, space and demographics are among the urban characteristics Adams considers in relation to wildlife. He describes changes in the composition and structure of vegetation, as native species are replaced by exotic ones, and shows how, with spreading urbanization of natural habitats, the diversity of species of plants and animals almost always declines, although the density of a few species increases. Adams contends, however, that it is possible for a wide variety of species to coexist in the metropolitan environment, and he cites a growing interest in the practice of "natural landscaping," which emphasizes the use of native species and considers the structure, pattern, and species composition of vegetation as it relates to wildlife needs. Urban habitats vary from small city parks in densely built downtowns to suburbs with large yards and considerable open space. Adams discusses the opportunities these areas--along with school yards, hospital grounds, cemeteries, individual residences, and vacant lots--provide for judicious wildlife management and for the salutary interaction of people with nature. Lowell W. Adams is vice president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife in Columbia, Maryland.
American Indian Environments
Title | American Indian Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Vecsey |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1980-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780815622277 |
Reflecting a variety of disciplines, approaches, and viewpoints, this collection of ten essays by both Indians and non-Indians covers a wide range of historical periods, areas, and topics concerning the changes in Indian environmental experiences. Subjects include the role of the environment in religions; white practices of land use and the exploitation of energy resources on reservations; the historical background of sovereignty, its philosophy and legality; and the plight of various uprooted Indians and the resulting clashes between Indian groups themselves as they compete for scarce resources. From the Canadian Subarctic to Ontario's Grassy Narrows, from the Iroquois to the Navajo, American Indian Environments is an important contribution to understanding the Indians' attitude toward and dependence upon their environment and their continued struggles with non-Indians over it.
Weaving a Future
Title | Weaving a Future PDF eBook |
Author | Elayne Zorn |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1587295229 |
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest
Title | Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Whitmore |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199244539 |
Drawing on this wealth of data the authors make a contribution to the debate about resource, land, and population in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.