Saikku mikko (74 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Revised Edition. Foreward by Alfred W. Crosby. 166 pages. Experts with diverse educational backgrounds tackle important issues ranging from the intellectual formation of environmental concepts to case studies of forest history and animal extinction. Editors and contributors are Finnish.; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ''.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1999. Natural History. Ohio University Press. 166p., very good to near fine paperback. 3/26.

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xx, 373 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers soiled and lightly rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ISBN 0820326739.

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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Green Development or Greenwashing?: Environmental Histories of Finland. Book.

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Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Second, Revised Edition. 166 pages. Foreword by Alfred W. Crosby. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

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Paperback. Condición: New. Finland has often been labelled a 'green superpower', lauded as one of the world's cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as 'pristine and green', in contrast to the rest of the rapidly contaminating world where the race for markets and profits has enormously accelerated consumption, imposing on the environment an alarming level of extraction and commerce, and a wide array of new and old forms of pollution. Environmental historians, however, can perceive that the reputed 'greenness' of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion. Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland's current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. This volume thus seeks to acquaint the reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal populations have been decimated; and Finland today is confined to the south and west by arguably the most polluted sea in the world.There are lessons for the future to be learnt from Finland's tendency to rest on the laurels of a positive environmental reputation built at least in part on myth. In the twenty-first century, the world badly needs less greenwashing and a truer commitment to green-ness.…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. revised edition. 166 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condición: New. This Delta, This Land is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta-the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, has changed enormously since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and flood-management schemes have transformed it beyond recognition-and beyond any prospects for a full recovery.However, says Mikko Saikku, the 150 years following the Civil War brought greater environmental change than we generally realize. Indeed, the long-term environmental history of the Delta is much more complex than our current view of it, which privileges recent periods rather than presenting the entire continuum. Looking across thousands of years, Saikku examines successive human societies in the Delta, drawing connections between environmental and social problems and noting differences between Native Americans and Euro-Americans in their economies, modes of production, and land-use patterns.Saikku's range of sources is astonishing: travel literature, naturalists' writings, government records, company archives, archaeological data, private correspondence, and more. As he documents how such factors as climate and water levels shaped the Delta, he also reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.…

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Condición: New. This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music. Num Pages: 376 pages, 6 b/w photos, 5 tables, 3 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBJK; HBTB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508. . 2005. Paperback. . . . .…

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 373 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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