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This book introduces the seed bank of the Seed Ark of Wild Plants in Southwest China from a professional perspective, which is one of the China Big Science Facilities. It aims to promote the protection, development, and utilization of various wild plant seed resources preserved in the "Ark of Seeds". As science and technology keep progressing, maybe one day, we may take the little lives sleeping in the “Ark of Seeds” to start a splendid journey to the universe, and they will recreate the green forests and grasslands in some suitable planet, and create a new legend in that new planet.

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Dieses Buch unternimmt den innovativen Versuch, das Paradigma einer ökologisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft mit Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie auf eine tragfähige theoretische Grundlage zu stellen. Zugleich wird unter den Auspizien der beiden Diskurse der Vorschlag gemacht, den Code des Kunstsystems neu zu fassen. Die Studie leistet damit mehreres: eine umfassende Einführung in das im deutschsprachigen Raum (noch) wenig bekannte Paradigma der ökologischen Literaturwissenschaft bzw. des »Ecocriticism«, eine perspektivenreiche Kombination von Systemtheorie und Literaturwissenschaft sowie eine Erprobung des theoretisch Erarbeiteten an ausgewählten Texten Peter Handkes. Besprochen in: Sprachkunst, 38/2 (2007), Walter Wagner Variations, 16 (2008), Marcel Weder Ecozon, 11 (2010), Sabine Jambon

Literature & literary studies --- General Literature Studies. --- German Literature. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Nature. --- Theory of Literature. --- Ecocriticism; Systemtheorie; Literaturtheorie; Peter Handke; Literatur; Natur; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Germanistik; Literaturwissenschaft; Systems Theory; Theory of Literature; Literature; Nature; General Literature Studies; German Literature; Literary Studies

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"This is the first full-scale look at LBL, which has been managed by the TVA since its beginning. In part environmental history, this book focuses on public policy issues and the successes and failures of New Deal and then Great Society programs and concentrates fairly intensively on public planning"-- "Between Barkley and Kentucky Lakes--two great, artificial bodies of water in western Tennessee and western Kentucky--lies a wooded land that looks from above like the flattened thumb of a green giant. Once a land of marginal farms and small settlements, this 240-square-mile peninsula, known as the Land Between the Lakes, has been a national recreation area for the last half-century. Its rolling, wooded hills and open bottomlands give the place charm but little majesty. The place swallows up its few campgrounds and visitors they attracts, creating a vacuous tranquility. In this volume, Foresta explores how this forgotten and bypassed region became a national recreation area. He uses its history to retrieve our old attitudes toward nature, progress, and personal development. He also uses its history to retrieve a vision of the future that rallied idealists, intellectuals, and even public officials to its banner. In the early 1960's, the Tennessee Valley Authority set out to create a great park for posterity at the Land Between the Lakes. The park was to host the vast stretches of leisure that wealthy, secure, and more equal Americans of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries would have at their disposal. It would be a place where such Americans could turn that leisure into happiness, psychic well-being, and strength of character. The TVA cleared the land of its inhabitants to create the park, removing people from their homes and severing their roots, thus effacing the history of the place. It then set about reshaping the land in the image of an anticipated future. But when that future never arrived, managers struggled to fit the place to the America that actually came into being. In the end they failed, leaving the Land Between the Lakes enveloped in a haunting sense of emptiness. A deft blend of environmental history, geography, politics, and cultural history, Land Between the Lakes demonstrates both the idealism of mid-twentieth-century planners and how quickly such idealism can fall out of alignment with the flow of history. In so doing it explores a forgotten vision of the future that was in many ways more appealing than the present that came into being in its place"--

Natural resources --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Management --- History --- History. --- Land Between the Lakes (Ky. and Tenn.) --- Environmental conditions. --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Economic aspects --- Between-the-Rivers National Recreation Area (Ky. and Tenn.) --- Kentucky West Lakes Area (Ky. and Tenn.) --- Kentucky's Western Waterland (Ky. and Tenn.) --- Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (Ky. and Tenn.) --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- NATURE / General. --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse

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"In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition,' Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy"--

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