Landscape Logic

Landscape Logic
Author: Allan Curtis
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0643103562

In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six regional catchment management authorities to answer the question: 'Can we detect the influence of public environmental programs on the condition of our natural resources?' This was prompted by a series of national audits of Australia's environmental programs that could find no evidence of public investment improving the condition of waterways, soils and native vegetation, despite major public programs investing more than $4.2 billion in environmental repair over the last 20 years. Landscape Logic describes how this collaboration of 42 researchers and environmental managers went about the research. It describes what they found and what they learned about the challenge of attributing cause to environmental change. While public programs had been responsible for increase in vegetation extent, there was less evidence for improvement in vegetation condition and water quality. In many cases critical levels of intervention had not been reached, interventions were not sufficiently mature to have had any measurable impact, monitoring had not been designed to match the spatial and temporal scales of the interventions, and interventions lacked sufficiently clear objectives and metrics to ever be detectable. In the process, however, new knowledge emerged on disturbance thresholds in river condition, diagnosing sources of pollution in river systems, and the application and uptake of state-and-transition and Bayesian network models to environmental management. The findings discussed in this book provide valuable messages for environmental managers, land managers, researchers and policy makers.

Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape

Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2008-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309121086

Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important. Streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the nation's clean water supply. Removing forest cover accelerates the rate that precipitation becomes streamflow; therefore, in some areas, cutting trees causes a temporary increase in the volume of water flowing downstream. This effect has spurred political pressure to cut trees to increase water supply, especially in western states where population is rising. However, cutting trees for water gains is not sustainable: increases in flow rate and volume are typically short-lived, and the practice can ultimately degrade water quality and increase vulnerability to flooding. Forest hydrology, the study of how water flows through forests, can help illuminate the connections between forests and water, but it must advance if it is to deal with today's complexities, including climate change, wildfires, and changing patterns of development and ownership. This book identifies actions that scientists, forest and water managers, and citizens can take to help sustain water resources from forests.

Education And Awareness Of Sustainability - Proceedings Of The 3rd Eurasian Conference On Educational Innovation 2020 (Ecei 2020)

Education And Awareness Of Sustainability - Proceedings Of The 3rd Eurasian Conference On Educational Innovation 2020 (Ecei 2020)
Author: Charles Tijus
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811228019

This volume represents the proceedings of the 3rd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2020 (ECEI 2020). Thes conference is organized by the International Institute of Knowledge Innovation and Invention (IIKII), and was held on February 5-7, 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam.ECEI 2020 provides a unified communication platform for researchers in a range of topics in education innovation and other related fields. This proceedings volume enables interdisciplinary collaboration of science and engineering technologists. It is a fine starting point for establishing an international network in the academic and industrial fields.

Geography and Vision

Geography and Vision
Author: Denis Cosgrove
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2012-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 085771290X

Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation. The essays include reflections upon geographical discovery; urban cartography and utopian visions; ideas of landscape and the shaping of America; wilderness and masculinity; conceptions of the Pacific; and the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries.

Mining Your Client's Metaphors

Mining Your Client's Metaphors
Author: Gina Campbell
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1452558744

If you’re a therapist, counselor, coach, or other healing professional, you can make a quantum leap in your ability to assess, clarify, clear blocks and encourage transformative change by learning to use your client’s internal metaphors to full advantage with Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling. Used as a self-study tool or a course text, this workbook will empower you with effective and flexible new tools to use alone or integrate with what you already do.

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing
Author: Suzanne Brooker
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399580662

This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media. Following in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists (drawing) with the popular subject matter of the natural landscape. Brooker breaks down landscapes into their various elements--including the earth, water, air, and trees--to convey how the fundamentals of drawing are applied to capture each aspect. Using the graphite pencil as her baseline instrument, Brooker provides you with step-by-step lessons that help you improve your rendering skills and re-create the beauty of the world outdoors. Examples from art history and contemporary masters supplement these lessons. The end result is a drawing instruction book that provides artists with everything they need to render landscapes no matter their skill level.