1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457981703321

Titolo

Nature and culture in the northern forest [[electronic resource] ] : region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast / / edited by Pavel Cenkl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58729-936-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

American land and life series

Altri autori (Persone)

CenklPavel <1971->

Disciplina

304.20974

Soggetti

Human ecology - Northeastern States

Human beings - Effect of environment on - Northeastern States

Landscapes - Social aspects - Northeastern States

Community life - Northeastern States

Regionalism - Northeastern States

Forests and forestry - Northeastern States

Electronic books.

Northeastern States Intellectual life

Northeastern States In literature

Northeastern States Environmental conditions

Northeastern States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Reading Place in the Northern Forest; Encounters; Meeting Twinflower (Linnaea borealis); Music of the Northern Forest: Boreal Birdsong in Literature and on the Trail; Life as Beech: Survival in the New England Forest; Teaching and Learning; Robert Frost in the Fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the Treeline: Ecological Knowledge and Academic Learning at the Northern Forest Edge; Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks; Youth, Refinement, and Environmental Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Rural North

Place as a Catalyst for Engaged Learning at Franklin Pierce UniversityRethinking Place; Benton MacKaye's 1904 White Mountains



Hike: Exploring a Landscape of Logging, "Camp Ethics," and Patriotism; William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher; A Traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on My Mind; Living with the Woods: Disturbance Histories in Thoreau and Burroughs; Nature as Commodity; In Awe of the Body: Physical Contact, Indulgence Shopping, and Nature Writing; Claiming Maine: Acquisition and Commodification in Thoreau's The Maine Woods

So Much Beauty Locked Up in It: Of Ecocriticism and Axe-MurderContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region's cultural and environmental history. The fourteen engaging essays in Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest effectively explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape. Together they serve as a stimulating introduction to the interdisciplinary study of this unique regio

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910338250103321

Autore

Armstrong Scott

Titolo

Quantitative Stochastic Homogenization and Large-Scale Regularity / / by Scott Armstrong, Tuomo Kuusi, Jean-Christophe Mourrat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-15545-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (548 pages)

Collana

Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, A Series of Comprehensive Studies in Mathematics, , 0072-7830 ; ; 352

Disciplina

515.35

515.353

Soggetti

Differential equations, Partial

Probabilities

Mathematical physics

Calculus of variations

Partial Differential Equations

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Mathematical Physics

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Assumptions and examples -- Frequently asked questions -- Notation -- Introduction and qualitative theory -- Convergence of the subadditive quantities -- Regularity on large scales -- Quantitative description of first-order correctors -- Scaling limits of first-order correctors -- Quantitative two-scale expansions -- Calderon-Zygmund gradient L^p estimates -- Estimates for parabolic problems -- Decay of the parabolic semigroup -- Linear equations with nonsymmetric coefficients -- Nonlinear equations -- Appendices: A.The O_s notation -- B.Function spaces and elliptic equations on Lipschitz domains -- C.The Meyers L^{2+\delta} estimate -- D. Sobolev norms and heat flow -- Parabolic Green functions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The focus of this book is the large-scale statistical behavior of solutions of divergence-form elliptic equations with random coefficients, which is closely related to the long-time asymptotics of reversible diffusions in random media and other basic models of statistical physics. Of particular interest is the quantification of the rate at which solutions converge to those of the limiting, homogenized equation in the regime of large scale separation, and the description of their fluctuations around this limit. This self-contained presentation gives a complete account of the essential ideas and fundamental results of this new theory of quantitative stochastic homogenization, including the latest research on the topic, and is supplemented with many new results. The book serves as an introduction to the subject for advanced graduate students and researchers working in partial differential equations, statistical physics, probability and related fields, as well as a comprehensive reference for experts in homogenization. Being the first text concerned primarily with stochastic (as opposed to periodic) homogenization and which focuses on quantitative results, its perspective and approach are entirely different from other books in the literature. .