Tensional Landscapes

Tensional Landscapes
Author: Gary Backhaus
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780739105610

The contributors to this volume address global, regional, and local landscapes, cosmopolitan and indigenous cultures, and human and more-than-human ecology as they work to reveal place-specific tensional dynamics. This unusual book, which covers a wide-ranging array of topics, coheres into a work that will be a valuable reference for scholars of geography and the philosophy of place.

Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts
Author: M. Mianowski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0230360297

Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture.

Humans in the Land

Humans in the Land
Author: Sven Arntzen
Publisher: Oslo Academic Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

"The concept of cultural landscape has become significant in social and political decision making, in environmental management and preservation and in diverse academic disciplines. This book reflects on the philosophical presuppositions underlying discussions about landscapes which lie in the space between natural and built environments. With their focus on ethical and aesthetic considerations regarding the cultural landscape, the topics here address, in particular, the qualitative aspects of approaches to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Slipper Slopes and Surface Tension

Slipper Slopes and Surface Tension
Author: Lainey Davis
Publisher: Lainey Davis
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 2022-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Meet the Brady family. They're brilliant, brooding and barreling into relationships whether they like it or not. The Brady family is deeply involved in each other's business, and that business is engineering. Not romance. And yet...romance seems to have come for the Brady family and they are definitely not ready. If you love messy family dynamics, unforgettable characters, and sizzling chemistry, you'll devour these sexy, hilarious full-length novels, all in one convenient package. Foundation: A Grouchy Geek Romance Zack Brady doesn’t do relationships. He does calculations, and Nicole Kennedy is a problem he can't seem to solve. Suspension: An Opposites Attract Romance Liam Brady has no chill. He’s a guy who irons his underwear and checks people’s math for a living. When his family business hires a creative writer for a marketing project, he is not prepared to spend time with a woman who keeps candy in her pockets and always asks people uncomfortable questions. Inspection: A Silver Fox Romance He closed off his heart when he lost his wife. She is trying to start fresh. Can they rekindle an old flame? Vibration: An Accidental Roommates Romance Irresponsible. Impulsive. Reckless. Cal Brady has heard it all from his family and he's getting a little sick of it, so he answers an online ad for a roommate and moves in with a dude named Logan. Only...Logan isn't a dude at all. Current: A Secret Baby Romance What happens when you realize your new mailman is your hot one-night stand…and the father of your baby? Restoration: A Silver Fox Redemption Romance Is it ever too late for love?

Geography Education Promoting Sustainability

Geography Education Promoting Sustainability
Author: Eila Jeronen
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3039285009

Through out the current period of educational change, Geography education has also changed. The innovations may be the starting point to affect conceptual change and paradigm shifts. Geography education assimilates and integrates knowledge, skills and scientific methodologies. The ten articles in this book illuminate a wide range of topics of interest to Geography education. In their article, Skarstein and Wolff discuss how the interplay between the environment, society and economy pillars of sustainability thinking play out on scales of time, space and multitude and how geography teachers can support the students’ understanding of sustainability. Yli-Panula et al. analysed used teaching and learning methods to find out good ones for promoting sustainability in geography. The same idea can be found in Duffin's and Perry’s article on Place-Based Ecology Education. In their article, Dür and Keller discuss the topics of quality of life, sustainability and global justice based on the goals of Education for Sustainable Development. Evaluation is an important part of learning. It is reviewed by Schauss and Sprenger regarding climate change education. The following two articles deal with students' views of landscapes worth conserving. In both studies, students expressed concern about the state of the environment. Yli-Panula et al. found that the Mexican students seldom considered their own activities in relation to the environment while Yli-Panula et al. stated that only some of the Finnish and Swedish students act as observers while others actively care for their environment. The remaining three articles deal with teaching methods and models. Benninghaus et al. present a benchmark method, which allows statements about the quality of the maps/diagrams in general. Álvarez-Otero and De Lázaro y Torres, on the other hand, describe their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge model. Kopnina and Saari discusses student assignments reflecting on the documentary film through critical pedagogy and ecopedagogy.

Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces

Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces
Author: Gary Backhaus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars who give a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.

Landscapes Beyond Land

Landscapes Beyond Land
Author: Arnar Árnason
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857456725

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape
Author: Simon Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134343531

Public concern about the landscape, in particular its appearance, is increasing all the time. For those charged with managing, developing or conserving a wide range of landscapes it is a major task to take visual aspects into account. Elements of Visual Design in the Landsacpe presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence. It is profusely illustrated using both abstract and real examples taken from a wide range of international locations together with cross referencing between related principles and case studies demonstrating how the principles can be applied in practice. The visual aspects of design have often been treated as 'cosmetic' and therefore not meriting attention or purely subjective and therefore open to personal preference. Few attempts have been made to explain how we see the landscape in any rational and structured way, and to demonstrate how visually creative design and management can be undertaken. This book aims to fill that gap.