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Boreal environment research : an international interdisciplinary journal.
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ISSN: 17972469 Year: 1996 Publisher: Helsinki : Finnish Environment Institute,

Human landscapes in classical Antiquity : environment and culture
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ISBN: 0415107555 9780415107556 Year: 1996 Volume: 6 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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'Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity' covers an extensive study area, taking a closer look at the relationship of the Greeks and Romans with their environment. This survey analyzes how they dealt with and constructed their surroundings in both practical and intellectual terms. It analyzes the effects of urban and agricultural development, as well as shattering some of the received histories and misconceptions of the landscape in antiquity. Included among these studies is new work on the aesthetic understanding of landscapes, the importance of hunting to the Greeks, and the Roman concern with wetlands and water resources.


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Ethics and the environment.
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ISSN: 15355306 Year: 1996 Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Stanford, Conn. : Bloomington, IN : JAI Press JAI Press Indiania University Press

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Ethics & the Environment is an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and practical articles, discussions, reviews, and book reviews in the broad area encompassed by environmental ethics, including conceptual approaches in ethical theory and ecological philosophy, such as deep ecology and ecological feminism as they pertain to such issues as environmental education and management, ecological economies, and ecosystem health.


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Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta.
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ISSN: 1998992X 24089478 Year: 1996 Publisher: Volgograd : Izd-vo Volgogradskogo gos. universiteta,

The eco principle : ecology and economics in symbiosis
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ISBN: 1856494330 1856494349 0853984123 9781856494335 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford : London ; Atlantic Highlands : George Ronald ; Zed Books,

Ecology and field biology
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ISBN: 0065009762 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, NY HarperCollins


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Conserving America : a bibliographical guide to printed material in the British Library relating to American environmental history and thought
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ISBN: 071234411X Year: 1996 Publisher: London British Library. The Eccles centre for American studies

Intertidal ecology
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ISBN: 940091489X 0412299607 041229950X 9780412299605 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Chapman & Hall,

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The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study - the Ancient Greek scholar Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins. The considerable knowledge of what to eat and where it could be found has been passed down since prehistoric times by oral tradition in many societies - in Britain it is still unwise to eat shellfish in months without an 'r' in them. Over the last three hundred years or so we have seen the formalization of science and this of course has touched intertidal ecology. Linnaeus classified specimens collected from the seashore and many common species (Patella vulgata L. , Mytilus edulis L. , Littorina littorea (L. )) bear his imprint because he formally described, named and catalogued them. Early natural historians described zonation patterns in the first part of the 19th century (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832), and the Victorians became avid admirers and collectors of shore animals and plants with the advent of the new fashion of seaside holidays (Gosse, 1856; Kingsley, 1856). As science became professionalized towards the end of the century, marine biologists took advantage of low tides to gain easy access to marine life for taxonomic work and classical studies of functional morphology. The first serious studies of the ecology of the shore were made at this time (e. g.

Human landscapes in classical antiquity : environment and culture
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ISBN: 1134841655 1280157518 0203426908 0203298322 9780203298329 9780203426906 9780415107556 0415107555 9786610157518 6610157510 9781134841653 9781280157516 9780415692472 0415692474 9781134841608 9781134841646 1134841647 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today's environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effects of human settlement and cultivation on the landscape are considered, as well as the representation of landscape in Attic drama. Various aspects of farming, such as the use of terraces and the significance of olive growing are examined.

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