Interpreting The Environment
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Author |
: Grant William Sharpe |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 726 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924000079354 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting the Environment by : Grant William Sharpe
Author |
: I. G. Simmons |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134862221 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134862229 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Nature by : I. G. Simmons
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
Author |
: Debra A. Reid |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2019-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538115503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538115506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites by : Debra A. Reid
Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone who wants to better understand the environment that surrounds us and sustains us, who wants to become a better steward of that environment, and who wants to share lessons learned with others. The process starts by focusing attention on the environment – the physical space that constitutes the largest three-dimensional object in museum collections. It involves conceptualizing spaces and places of human influence; spaces that contain layer upon layer documenting human struggles to survive and thrive. This evidence exists in natural environments as well as city centers. The process continues by adopting an environment-centric view of the spaces destined to be interpreted. This mind-set forms the basis for devising research plans that document how humans have changed, destroyed, conserved and sustained spaces over time, and the ways that the environment reacts. Interpretation built on this evidence then becomes the basis for minds-on engagement with the places that humans inhabit and the spaces that they have changed and continue to manipulate. Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites provides a tool kit designed to help you research environmental history, document evidence of human influence on land and the environment over time, and tailor that knowledge to new public engagement. It proposes a multi-disciplinary approach that requires expertise in the humanities as well as the sciences and social sciences to best understand space and place over time. It incorporates case studies of the theory and method of environmental history to explore how human goals take lasting shape in the environment – creating working environments, getting water, generating and harnessing power, growing food, traveling and trading, building things, and preserving natural landscapes. Features include the Interpreting the Environment Tool Kit to help you launch the good work of interpreting the environment: Raw Materials (the evidence): landscape, ecosystems, artifacts, and the built environment Preparation (methods): thinking like a naturalist/scientist; thinking like a historian; combining approaches Planning (envisioning the goal): proactive message, stewardship, sustainability Partnerships (sharing work): strength in numbers; allying across disciplinary divides; united in efforts to inform the public about their individual and collective effects on the landscape and the environment Potential: educating the public about people and places is part of a world-wide goal with the cumulative effect of saving the planet, one story at a time. A Timeline and Bibliographic essay round out the book’s resources.
Author |
: Sam H. Ham |
Publisher |
: Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00510846U |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (6U Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Interpretation by : Sam H. Ham
Environmental Interpretation is the first truly applied treatment of environmental communication written specifically for people with big ideas and small budgets. Drawing on 20 years experience and the successes of his colleagues worldwide, Sam Ham presents an unusually diverse collection of low-cost communication techniques that really work. More than 200 illustrations, photos, and technical insets provide simple instructions for designing and implementing effective education programs in forests, parks, protected areas, zoos, botanical gardens, extension and community programs, and in all kinds of agriculture and natural resource management programs. Aside from its step-by-step, "how-to" approach, what sets this volume apart is its solid theoretical foundation. Readers learn not only how to communicate their ideas more forcefully but why the methods work. Some 20 case studies, carefully selected from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stimulate the imagination and show how others have successfully applied what this book is about. Written for beginners and experts alike, the book represents a valuable resource for anyone faced with the need to communicate about the environment yet constrained by lack of money and experience.
Author |
: Brian Treanor |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 547 |
Release |
: 2013-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823254279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823254275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Nature by : Brian Treanor
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
Author |
: Andrew Pierssene |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 522 |
Release |
: 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135814601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135814600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Explaining Our World by : Andrew Pierssene
This book offers a rational and philosophical approach to environmental interpretation, the educational purpose of which is particularly relevant in an age when specialization tends to distance most people from direct experience of the way the environment works. In reviewing the practice of interpretation, the author emphasises that effective work in this field must be finely tuned. The interpreter must constantly bear in mind the real value and significance of the features interpreted and the needs of the visitors to whom interpretation is addressed.
Author |
: Karen Hulme |
Publisher |
: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004138483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 900413848X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Torn Environment by : Karen Hulme
This book analyses the issues surrounding the protection of the environment in times of armed conflict, and to pose questions as to its adequacy and efficacy. But the focus is not simply upon the interpretation of the legal provisions in isolation; instead, the analysis establishes a benchmark standard of environmental harm against which the adequacy and efficacy of the legal provisions can be measured.
Author |
: Stanley A. Schumm |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1998-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521646022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521646024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Interpret the Earth by : Stanley A. Schumm
A concise and imaginative discussion of the scientific approach to problems within the earth sciences for students and researchers.
Author |
: Clay Schoenfeld |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951000016253C |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3C Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Environmental Issues by : Clay Schoenfeld
Author |
: W. Nelson Beyer |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 750 |
Release |
: 2011-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781420084061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1420084062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Contaminants in Biota by : W. Nelson Beyer
Examining tissue residues of contaminants in biota reveals the movement of contaminants within organisms and through food chains as well as the context for understanding and quantifying injuries to organisms and their communities. Yet tissue concentrations of some contaminants are especially challenging to interpret and the ability of today’s analytical chemists to provide reliable analytical data of most important environmental contaminants often surpasses the ability of ecotoxicologists to interpret those data. Offering guidance on the ecotoxicologically meaningful interpretation of tissue concentrations, Environmental Contaminants in Biota, Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition is updated with current data and new ways of analyzing those data as well as additional contaminants not previously considered. Beginning with a history of wildlife toxicology and data interpretation, chapters cover a wide range of contaminants and their hazardous and lethal concentrations in various animals including DDT, Dioxins, PCBs, and PBDEs in aquatic organisms; methylmurcury, selenium, and trace metals in fishes and aquatic invertebrates; and pharmaceuticals and organic contaminants in marine mammals. The book considers the impact of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans, and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers; cyclodiene; and other organochlorine pesticides in birds and mammals. Later chapters examine the effects and analysis of lead, cadmium, and radionuclides in biota. With thousands of published research papers reporting tissue concentrations each year, Environmental Contaminants in Biota, Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition gives ecotoxicologists the ability to draw actionable value regarding the toxicological consequences of those concentrations and relate tissue concentrations quantitatively to injury: the core of ecotoxicology.