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Hearing a Different Drummer

A New Paradigm for the "keepers of the Forest"

By: John Studley

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Hearing a Different Drummer

A New Paradigm for the "keepers of the Forest"

By: John Studley

It is becoming increasingly apparent that virtually all aspects of diversity are in steep decline. Indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity and cultural diversity (three interacting, interdependent systems) are all threatened with extinction throughout the world. This book explores the diversity crisis from the perspective of forestry. It introduces an emerging vision, known as the endogenous realisation of aspirations (ERA), that attempts to enhance well-being and biocultural diversity by building on local or endogenous ambitions and dreams. Based on research in the Kham region of south-western China, the author offers some practical methods for allowing development professionals to develop an understanding of and empathy for the local cultures within which they work, as well as to identify and understand local forest concepts and values. He also offers some policy recommendations for incorporating this approach more widely into development practice.

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IIED

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1843696681

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Empire and the Animal Body

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

By: John Miller

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Empire and the Animal Body

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

By: John Miller

‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.

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244

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Anthem Press

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1783083174

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9781783083176

Hardwicke's Science-gossip

Vol. XIII

By: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke,John Ellor Taylor

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Hardwicke's Science-gossip

Vol. XIII

By: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke,John Ellor Taylor

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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297

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338556591X

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9783385565913

Scotland's Heritage

A Photographic Journey

By: Richard Haight,Frances Ross,James B. Hannon,John Hannavy

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Scotland's Heritage

A Photographic Journey

By: Richard Haight,Frances Ross,James B. Hannon,John Hannavy

... These volumes provide the very latest in this critical technology and are an invaluable resource for scientists in both academia and industry concerned with the semiconductor future and all of science.'Foreword by Leonard C Feldman (Director Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology, Rutgers University, USA)Highlights. As we delve more deeply into the physics and chemistry of functional materials and processes, we are inexorably driven to the nanoscale. And nowhere is the development of instrumentation and associated techniques more important to scientific progress than in the area of nanoscience. The dramatic expansion of efforts to peer into nanoscale materials and processes has made it critical to capture and summarize the cutting-edge instrumentation and techniques that have become indispensable for scientific investigation in this arena. This Handbook is a key resource developed for scientists, engineers and advanced graduate students in which eminent scientists present the forefront of instrumentation and techniques for the study of structural, optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures.

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644

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World Scientific

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9814322806

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9789814322805

Scrambles in the Lake District - South

Langdale, Coniston, Eskdale, Patterdale & High Street

By: John Fleetwood

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Scrambles in the Lake District - South

Langdale, Coniston, Eskdale, Patterdale & High Street

By: John Fleetwood

A guidebook to 106 graded scrambles in the south of the Lake District National Park, covering Langdale, Coniston and Eskdale, with easy access from Haweswater, Longsleddale, Duddon and Patterdale. Routes range scrambling grade 1 to climbing grade V Diff so there’s something for all abilities. The gill scrambles and rock climbs can be linked to form 24 days out. 1:25,000 OS mapping and topos to aid navigation Each scramble is clearly described with notes about grade, quality, aspect and approach Popular routes covered include Jack's Rake, Esk Gorge, Pinnacle Ridge, Dungeon Gill, Linkcove Gill, Giant's Crawl, Middlefell Buttress and Crescent Climb Detailed information on safety and equipment Part of a 2-volume set, an accompany Cicerone guidebook Scrambles in the Lake District - North is also available

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292

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Cicerone Press Limited

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1783627328

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9781783627325

Book's by John C. Raven

Hearing a Different Drummer

Hearing a Different Drummer

Empire and the Animal Body

Empire and the Animal Body

Hardwicke's Science-gossip

Hardwicke's Science-gossip

Scotland's Heritage

Scotland's Heritage

Scrambles in the Lake District - South

Scrambles in the Lake District - South

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