Misreading the Bengal Delta : climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh / / Camelia Dewan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910508485703321
• Autore: Dewan Camelia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University of Washington Press, 2021; Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 0-295-74962-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
• Collana: Culture, place, and nature
• Disciplina: 338.95492
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Social aspects - Bangladesh; Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Bangladesh; Economic development - Environmental aspects - Bangladesh; Bangladesh Environmental 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : climate reductive translations In development -- Simplifying embankments -- Translating climate change -- Assembling fish, shrimp, and suffering in a saltwater village -- Entangling rice, soil, and strength in a freshwater village -- Surviving inequality -- Conclusion : misreading climate change.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Key global players increasingly politicize discussion of climatic change. This is especially evident in regard to Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of various development schemes for "poverty reduction" or "progress" to justify interventions in its environment and society. Some of these projects have resulted in severe, often unintended, environmental effects, such as silting of waterbodies that are surrounded by embankments; biodiversity loss and weakening of the sea walls (which protect against floods) resulting from tiger-prawn monoculture; and loss of soil fertility in intensive agriculture. Camelia Dewan utilizes ethnography and environmental history to highlight flawed assumptions of international development projects in ; Bangladesh, which often misread the coastal landscape by attributing causality solely to climate change. Examination of multiple and often conflicting perspectives-from poor rural coastal populations, middle-class elites, political actors, and NGO staff-shows how, since the colonial era, Bangladesh has endured intrusions, and how its current environmental crisis goes beyond global warming. This case study informs broader issues worldwide by documenting how the idea of climate change shapes development projects in the Global South, and the extent to which these endeavors correspond with the problems and concerns of populations they are intended to help. This provocative study will be welcomed by readers in the fields of environmental anthropology, human geography, and development studies"--

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• Record Nr.: UNINA9910706967803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (5 pages)
• Collana: House document / 115th Congress, 2d session ; ; 115-105
• Altri autori (Persone): TrumpDonald <1946->
• Soggetti: Legislative materials.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "March 26, 2018."; "Referred to the Committee on Appropriations."

Forest soils : properties and processes / / K. A. Armson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812462903321
• Autore: Armson K. A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1977; ©1977
• ISBN: 1-4426-5633-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Collana: Heritage
• Disciplina: 634.9
• Soggetti: Forest soils; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Forest soil: what it is and how to describe it -- A look at soil -- The description of a soil -- 2 The architecture of soil: texture, structure, and porosity -- Soil texture -- Determination of soil texture -- Stones -- Soil structure -- Origin of soil structure -- Soil consistence -- Soil porosity -- Measurement of soil porosity -- 3 Colour, temperature, and aeration -- Soil colour -- Measurement of soil colour -- Soil temperature -- Soil temperature regimes -- Snow and frost -- Soil aeration -- Measurement of soil aeration -- Soil aeration regimes -- 4 Soil water: the lifeblood of soil -- Energy relationships of water -- Movement of water in soil -- Movement in layered soils -- Soil water measurement -- Soil moisture regimes -- 5 Soil organic matter -- The type and amount of organic matter -- The form and composition of litter -- Energy transformations and decomposition of litter -- The forest floor -- 6 Soil biology: organisms and processes -- Soil fauna -- The measurement of soil animals -- Kinds of animals -- Soil microflora -- The estimation of microflora populations and their activities -- Bacteria -- Actinomycetes -- Fungi -- Algae -- The rhizospere -- 7 Soil chemistry -- Weathering of soil materials -- Physical -- Chemical -- Clay minerals -- products of weathering -- Cation exchange capacity -- Measurement of cation exchange capacity -- Anion exchange -- Soil reaction -- pH -- Measurement of soil reaction -- Soil elements -- Carbon -- Nitrogen ; -- Phosphorus -- Potassium -- Calcium and magnesium -- Sulphur -- Iron and aluminium -- Manganese -- Trace elements -- Oxidation-reduction -- 8 Soil fertility -- Essential elements -- Measurement of soil fertility -- Elements in plants -- Elements in the soil -- Plant growth -- Plant-soil relationships -- Diagnostic and predictive techniques.; Visual symptoms -- Comparative chemical analyses -- Mathematical relationships -- General fertility considerations -- Fertilizer materials and their use -- 9 Soil classification -- History -- Units of soil and classification -- The 7th approximation and soil taxonomy -- a world system -- The basis -- Diagnostic horizons -- Categories -- The Canadian soil classification system -- Categories -- Family and series -- 10 Soil surveys -- Soil surveys and the landscape -- Examples of soil surveys -- Comprehensive land surveys -- General soil survey -- USDA -- General soil survey -- Canada -- Forest soil survey -- Japan -- Boreal forest soil survey -- The Netherlands -- a large-scale survey -- Interpretation and use of soil surveys -- 11 Roots and soil -- Form and abundance of roots -- Methods of study -- Forms of roots -- Rooting volume of the soil -- Amounts and development of roots -- Root growth and soil properties -- Ecological and silvicultural aspects of roots -- 12 Fire and soil -- Effects of fire on forest soil properties -- Physical properties -- Chemical properties -- Soil organisms -- Ecological effects -- 13 The hydrolic cycle -- The water cycle -- General considerations -- Measurements -- Effects of soil properties -- Effects of vegetation -- Forest management effects -- 14 Nutrient cycling -- General considerations -- Nutrient inputs and outputs -- Atmospheric -- Geologic -- Biologic -- Internal cycling in the forest and soil -- The forest -- The soil -- Nutrient cycling in relation to certain ecological and silvicultural considerations -- 15 Forest soil development -- Factors of soil development -- Processes of soil development -- Additions -- Losses -- Translocation -- Transformation -- Conclusions -- 16 Soils and changing landscapes and use -- Soils and landscapes -- Geologic -- Vegetation -- Cultural -- The New Forest -- a case history.; Location, area, and geology -- Settlement, culture, vegetation, and soils -- L'envoi -- Appendix 1 Procedures for soil profile description and sampling -- Soil profile description -- Soil sampling procedures -- Methods of sampling -- Numbers of samples -- Appendix 2 Common and scientific names of trees and shrubs -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a comprehensive study of forest soils for foresters, wildlife and park managers, ecologists, and others interested in forest soils. It provides a valuable text for introductory and more advanced courses.