Author: James M. Rubenstein
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780321831583
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Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy,The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography emphasizes the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. The relationship between globalization and cultural diversity is woven throughout; Rubenstein addresses these themes with a clear organization and presentation that engages students and appeals to instructors. TheEleventh Edition focuses on issues of access and inequality to discuss negative trends (such as the economic downturn, depleting resources, and human-caused climate change) as well as positive steps taken (sustainability, technology, regime change, women's rights, and more). An updated design is optimized for eBooks and more effective student learning. The cartography and photos are fully updated.
Language: en
Pages: 499
Pages: 499
Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy,The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography emphasizes the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. The relationship between globalization and cultural diversity is woven throughout; Rubenstein addresses these themes with a clear organization and presentation that engages students and appeals to
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Books about The Barn as an Element in the Cultural Landscape of North America
Language: en
Pages: 406
Pages: 406
This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the
Language: en
Pages: 239
Pages: 239
The research in this book was born from an intellectual curiosity regarding the concept of 'cultural landscape.' The study resulted from a desire to clarify and expand the understanding of the term, as the starting point was the idea that a good practice is always based on a well-built theory.
Language: en
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Books about The Cultural Landscape of the Jelenia Góra Basin
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Combines the 'resilience' and 'cultural landscape' approaches to develop a new perspective on analysing and managing landscape changes.
Language: en
Pages: 739
Pages: 739
The basic problem is to what extent we can know past and mainly invisible landscapes, and how we can use this still hidden knowledge for actual sustainable management of landscape's cultural and historical values. It has also been acknowledged that heritage management is increasingly about 'the management of future change
Language: en
Pages: 521
Pages: 521
The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as
Language: en
Pages: 60
Pages: 60
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them.