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In the empire of ice : encounters in a changing landscape / by Ehrlich, Gretel.(CARDINAL)519931;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index.The ice never sleeps : the Bering Strait, Alaska -- Living with reindeer : the Komi of northwestern Russia -- In a dark land : Nunavut, Arctic Canada -- The end of ice : Greenland.Discusses the peoples of the high Arctic, their traditions, and the changes they face in the modern world and from global warming, in a book that looks at languages, hunting traditions, and religious practices.
Subjects: Arctic peoples; Nature; Climatic changes; Global warming.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Islands of abandonment : nature rebounding in the post-human landscape / by Flyn, Cal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part one. In absentia: The waste land : the Five Sisters, West Lothian, Scotland ; No man's land : the Buffer Zone, Cyprus ; Old fields : Harju, Estonia ; Nuclear Winter : Chernobyl, Ukraine -- Part two. Those who remain: The blight : Detroit, Michigan, United States ; Days of anarchy : Paterson, New Jersy, United States -- Part three. The long shadow: Unnatural selection : Arthur Kill, Staten Island, United States ; Forbidden forest : Zone Rouge, Verdun, France ; Alien invasion : Amani, Tanzania ; The trip to Rose Cottage : Swona, Scotland -- Part four. Endgame: Revelation : Plymouth, Montserrat ; The deluge and the desert : Salton Sea, California, United States."As if Annie Dillard walked into THE WORLD WITHOUT US: a beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence. Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it's a case that hope is far from lost, and is ultimately a story of redemption. The most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes, and in fact they already are"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Restoration ecology.; Resilience (Ecology); Environmental disasters.; Ecosystem health.; Landscape changes.; Nature;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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U.S. 40 today : thirty years of landscape change in America / by Vale, Thomas R.,1943-; Vale, Geraldine R.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Vale, Thomas R., 1943-; Vale, Geraldine R.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England / by Cronon, William.(CARDINAL)731102;
Bibliography: pages 207-235.1390L
Subjects: Landscape changes; Nature;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The cradle of humanity : how the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart / by Maslin, Mark,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.Early human evolution -- Tectonics and climate -- Cradle of humanity -- Global climate change -- Celestial mechanics -- African climate pulses -- The social brain -- The future of humanity.POPULAR SCIENCE. Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the world's apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage.
Subjects: Human evolution.; Intellect.; Human evolution; Human beings; Human beings; Landscape changes; Climatic changes; Paleoclimatology; Paleoecology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Iron Curtain rising : a personal journey through the changing landscape of Eastern Europe / by Laufer, Peter,1950-(CARDINAL)362682;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).
Subjects: Laufer, Peter;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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North Carolina needs a coordinated strategy to guide the changing landscape of veterans programs : final report to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee / by North Carolina.General Assembly.Program Evaluation Division.(CARDINAL)295918;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Veterans' families; Veterans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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"What nature suffers to groe" : life, labor, and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680-1920 / by Stewart, Mart A.author.(CARDINAL)899668;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index.
Subjects: Human geography; Landscape assessment; Landscape changes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The absent hand : reimagining our American landscape / by Lessard, Suzannah,author.(CARDINAL)635338;
In the village -- Suburbophobia -- Gettysburg -- Natchez -- Truth or Consequences -- Flight -- The view from a small mountain -- The pumpkins of Bergen Street -- The market -- Youngstown -- The pendulum -- Fresh kills -- The corporation in the woods -- Atopia -- Whose hand? -- The inverted cradle."Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald and others of Rebecca Solnit, but it is Lessard's singular talent to combine this profound book-length mosaic 'a blend of historical travelogue, architectural tour, philosophical meditation, and prose poem' into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. The Absent Hand begins by observing the residual places from our country's first European settlements, and continues to the life of our cities and their eventual overflow into suburbs and wildernesses. Yet Lessard is always joining us to discuss the effects of "enclosure," of how we manage to live on and in the land, how we surround ourselves on the land with stories, roads, buildings, and ideas. Whether it's climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the global enclosure is panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched"--
Subjects: Travel writing.; Lessard, Suzannah; Landscape assessment; Landscape changes; Geographical perception;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Killing ground : photographs of the Civil War and the changing American landscape / by Huddleston, John,1952-(CARDINAL)663330;
Includes bibliographical references (page 179) and index.Contents: A note to the reader -- About the war -- About the work -- The plates: The battlefield maps -- Appendixes: Brief descriptions of the battles; ownership of the battlefields; the historical photographers -- Bibliography -- Map and picture credits -- Acknowledgments.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; War and society; Landscapes; Historic sites; Landscapes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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