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Author | : Rod Giblett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1474269842 |
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
Author | : Rod Giblett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-08-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474269834 |
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
Author | : Ee Kiam Chua |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Mangrove animals |
ISBN | : 9789814270243 |
Author | : Xiaochang C. Wang |
Publisher | : IWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781789060751 |
Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to meet the needs of adapting to social and environmental changes and for urban liveability. This is the first book to provide comprehensive insights into theoretical, systematic, and engineering aspects of water-wise cities with a broad coverage of global issues. The book aims to (1) provide a theoretical framework of water-wise cities and associated sustainable water systems including key concepts and principles, (2) provide a brand-new thinking on the design and management of sustainable urban water systems of various scales towards a paradigm shift under the resource and environmental constraints, and (3) provide a technological perspective with successful case studies of technology selection, integration, and optimization on the “fit-for-purpose” basis.
Author | : Nidhi Nagabhatla |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2017-10-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319674161 |
This book describes how natural or constructed wetlands can be used to reduce pollution of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, while still preserving their biodiversity and ecological functions. Through a series of case histories described in 10 chapters in the monograph, the readers will gain an understanding of the opportunities, as well as the challenges associated with reducing point and non-point source pollution using natural, restored or constructed wetlands. The target audience will be water practitioners involved in projects utilizing integrated watershed management approaches to pollution abatement, as well as researchers who are designing projects focused on this topic.
Author | : Rodney James Giblett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Melbourne (Vic.) |
ISBN | : 9781789381979 |
Author | : Harini Nagendra |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-07-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019908968X |
In a rapidly urbanizing India, what is the future of nature conservation? How does the march of development impact the conflict between nature and people in India’s cities? Exploring these questions, Nature in the City examines the past, present and future of nature in Bengaluru, one of India’s largest and fastest growing cities. Once known as the Garden City of India, Bengaluru’s tree-lined avenues, historic parks and expansive water bodies have witnessed immense degradation and destruction in recent years, but have also shown remarkable tenacity for survival. This book charts Bengaluru’s journey from the early settlements in the 6th century CE to the 21st century city and demonstrates how nature has looked and behaved and has been perceived in Bengaluru’s home gardens, slums, streets, parks, sacred spaces and lakes. A fascinating narrative of the changing role and state of nature in the midst of urban sprawl and integrating research with stories of people and places, this book presents an accessible and informative story of a city where nature thrives and strives.
Author | : Carolina Rojas Quezada |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 3031695909 |
Author | : Rod Giblett |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1793643466 |
In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead waters or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.
Author | : Vladimir Novotny |
Publisher | : IWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2007-09-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1843391368 |
This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.