Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design

Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design
Author: Robert L. France
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1420008730

What if environmentally damaged landscapes could not only be remediated from an ecological standpoint, but also designed to replenish an entire community as well as the nature surrounding it? The Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design incorporates ecology, engineering, sociology, and design elements into a new paradigm for environmental r

Venice in Environmental Peril?

Venice in Environmental Peril?
Author: Dominic Standish
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0761856641

Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.

Storm-surge Forecasting

Storm-surge Forecasting
Author: J. W. Nickerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1971
Genre: Hurricanes
ISBN:

The report contains an adaptation of a unique storm-surge forecasting technique developed by Dr. C.P. Jelesnianski. This technique results in a computed storm surge profile at the inner boundary of an artificial standard basin seaward of the coast. The profile is derived from nomograms based upon a standard storm passing over a standard basin. Thumb rules and guidelines are presented in the publication for subjectively modifying the computer storm surge height as it moves shoreward of the artificial basin boundary, to fit the natural conditions of a particular coastline. Major advantages of this system are its applicability to almost any locale, its adaptability to data normally available to the field forecaster and the speed with which the forecast may be modified to remain current with natural fluctuations of the storm.

The Science of Saving Venice

The Science of Saving Venice
Author: Caroline Fletcher
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788842213109

Model of how to present complex information in a clear and accessible way.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010

OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264083529

This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision.

Climate Lyricism

Climate Lyricism
Author: Min Hyoung Song
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1478022353

In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O’Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change and its disastrous effects, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and extraction. These works employ what Song calls climate lyricism—a mode of address in which a first-person “I” speaks to a “you” about how climate change thoroughly shapes daily life. The relationship between “I” and “you” in this lyricism, Song contends, affects the ways readers comprehend the world, fostering a model of shared agency from which it can become possible to collectively and urgently respond to the catastrophe of our rapidly changing climate. In this way, climate lyricism helps to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change.

Urban Planning and Water-related Disaster Management

Urban Planning and Water-related Disaster Management
Author: Guangwei Huang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319901737

Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization. At the same time, cities provide exciting opportunities for growth and revitalization of local and national economies. The interplay of these challenges and opportunities create important tasks for policymakers and researchers. This book provides a new horizon for exploring solutions to urban problems, especially water-related disasters in urban areas. It is of a cross-disciplinary nature offering both new concepts and practices that will help to promote communication between urban planning communities and water management professionals in order to integrate water-related disaster management into spatial planning.

Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III

Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III
Author: Renato Lancellotta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1238
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 100078049X

The conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves, in inextricable patterns, factors belonging to different fields (cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical, administrative) and the requirements of safety and use appear to be (or often are) in conflict with the respect of the integrity of the monuments. The complexity of the topic is such that a shared framework of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, structural and geotechnical engineers. The complexity of the subject is such that a shared frame of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, architectural and geotechnical engineers. And while there are exemplary cases of an integral approach to each building element with its static and architectural function, as a material witness to the culture and construction techniques of the original historical period, there are still examples of uncritical reliance on modern technology leading to the substitution from earlier structures to new ones, preserving only the iconic look of the original monument. Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III collects the contributions to the eponymous 3rd International ISSMGE TC301 Symposium (Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022). The papers cover a wide range of topics, which include: - Principles of conservation, maintenance strategies, case histories - The knowledge: investigations and monitoring - Seismic risk, site effects, soil structure interaction - Effects of urban development and tunnelling on built heritage - Preservation of diffuse heritage: soil instability, subsidence, environmental damages The present volume aims at geotechnical engineers and academics involved in the preservation of monuments and historic sites worldwide.

Science, Technology and Cultural Heritage

Science, Technology and Cultural Heritage
Author: M.A. Rogerio-Candelera
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315712423

The Second International Congress on Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage was held in Seville, Spain, June 24-27, 2014, under the umbrella of the TechnoHeritage network. TechnoHeritage is an initiative funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity dedicated to the creation of a network which integrates CSIC