Kentucky's Natural Heritage
Title | Kentucky's Natural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Abernathy |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-01-21 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0813168678 |
Photographs and text examine the species of plants and animals native to Kentucky, exploring glades, prairies, forests, wetlands, rivers, and caves, and discussing the state's conservation efforts to preserve native species and ecosystems.
Ohio's Natural Heritage
Title | Ohio's Natural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Michael B. Lafferty |
Publisher | Ohio Department of Natural Resources |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Natural history |
ISBN | 9780933128019 |
The Natural Heritage of Indiana
Title | The Natural Heritage of Indiana PDF eBook |
Author | Marion T. Jackson |
Publisher | Quarry Books |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A lavishly illustrated, environmentally focused, comprehensive account of the natural world in Indiana from ancient times to the present. While the book is a celebration and recognition of natural wonders and beauty, it is also a record of pillage, misuse, and ignorance, as well as a call to arms for those who would preserve the state's environment. 458 color photos. 10 bandw photos. 64 figures.
The Natural Heritage of the World
Title | The Natural Heritage of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Monaco Books |
Publisher | Monaco Books is |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Biosphere reserves |
ISBN | 9783955042325 |
Unique landscape and wildlife images by the best landscape and nature photographers in the world.
Intangible Natural Heritage
Title | Intangible Natural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Dorfman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2011-08-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1136481656 |
The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like auditory landscapes, or processes like natural selection. As a concept, intangible natural heritage is growing in prominence, as museums are increasingly charged safeguarding and interpreting the milieux from which their objects originate. This book is a significant advance on the subject of intangible natural heritage; no book on the topic has yet been written and current scholarship is confined to a few isolated papers. As such, there exists a wide variety of perspectives on the topic. Intangible Natural Heritage presents a spectrum of opinion, making the first attempt at a unifying concept on which future work can be based. Authors from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Britain, and North America, address topics on scales from minute insects to sweeping landscapes. The common thread in these explorations is the importance of human relationships with nature that is passed down from generation to generation. In a world that is becoming increasingly fragile, recognizing and fostering these relationships has never been more vital.
Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya
Title | Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Anne-Marie Deisser |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-10-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1910634824 |
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Alongside this, the steady rise in the market value of African art has also affected Kenya. Demand for African tribal art has surpassed that for antiquities of Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian origin, and in African countries currently experiencing conflicts, this activity invariably attracts looters, traffickers and criminal networks. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of heritage conservation; the exploration of architectural and urban heritage of Nairobi; and the natural heritage, landscapes and sacred sites in relation to local Kenyan communities and tourism. It thus provides an overview of conservation practices in Kenya from 2000 to 2015 and highlights the role of natural and cultural heritage as a key factor of social-economic development, and as a potential instrument for conflict resolution
The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage
Title | The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | David Lowenthal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 131797039X |
The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences culture is a heritage of nature, whereas in those deriving from the humanities and social sciences, nature is defined socio-culturally. There is also, however, a geographical dimension to how one looks at the nature culture relation. From at least the time of Aristotle, the North has been identified with a cultural heritage thought to derive from the northern natural environment. It was no longer culture, as represented by the architectural monuments of the South, but the natural landscape that provided the measure for both natural and cultural heritage, as the natural landscape and its ecosystems were put in focus. This essay provides a contemporary picture of the long-standing contestation between natural and cultural heritage that provided the basis for the northern perspective taken in these essays. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of Heritage Studies.