1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698099503321

Titolo

Field test measurements at five municipal solid waste landfills with landfill gas control technology [[electronic resource] ] : final report / / prepared for Susan A. Thorneloe ; prepared by ARCADIS G & M, Inc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cincinnati, Ohio] : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, , [2007]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Altri autori (Persone)

Thorneloe-HowardSusan Alice

Soggetti

Sanitary landfills - United States - Testing

Landfill gases - Environmental aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 5, 2010).

"EPA/600/R-07/043."

"April 2007."

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development funded and managed in the research described here under Contract No. EP-C-04-023 to Arcadis G & M, Inc."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002010090403321

Titolo

Chemotaxonomy and serotaxonomy : Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Botany Department, Birmingham University, 15-16 september, 1967 / [ed. by] J.G. Hawkes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Systematics Association, 1968

Descrizione fisica

299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

The Systematics Association special volume series ; 2

Disciplina

612.118 22

Locazione

DAGEN

FAGBC

Collocazione

61 III D.6/09

A PAT 1458

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967453303321

Autore

Inkpen Robert <1964->

Titolo

Science, philosophy and physical geography / / Rob Inkpen and Graham Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-65463-1

0-415-67966-4

0-203-80634-4

1-136-65464-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (558 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilsonGraham

Disciplina

910/.0201

Soggetti

Physical geography - Philosophy

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

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Structure of the book; Chapter 1. Ideas, change and stability in physical geography; What are ideas and how do they change?; Johannes Umbgrove and plate tectonics; Is there a history of ideas in physical geography?; What are the important concepts in physical geography?; Chaos, complexity and Earth Systems Science (ESS); Summary; Chapter 2. The nature of reality; What is reality?

Views of different philosophiesCase Study: Critical rationalism: an example from environmental reconstruction; Reality as a dialogue; Theory, reality and practice; Case Study: Myths and theories; Physical geography as historical science; Summary; Chapter 3. Entities and classification; Introduction; What are entities?; Entities and kinds; Case Study: Species as natural kinds; Case Study: Magnitude and frequency - entities out of context; Classification; Case Study: The EU Water Framework Directive and the classification of surface water status; Case Study: Classification of soils

Events - mega entities?Summary; Chapter 4. Forms of explanation; Explanation in physical geography; What is explanation?; Causality; Case Study: Necessary and sufficient conditions; Explanatory



frameworks; Case Study: Abduction as a form of explanation in environmental reconstruction; Case Study: Linking theory and practice; The problems of causation; Summary; Chapter 5. Probing reality; Probing and the dialogue with reality; Measurement systems; Case Study: Triangulation of techniques - measurement of surface form on rocks; Practice in physical geography

Case Study: Linking process and form - intensive study of bedformsCase Study: Probing reality - fluvial flow structure; Case Study: Multiple working hypotheses; Summary; Chapter 6. The field; What is 'field science'?; The philosophies of fieldwork; Case Study: Local underdeterminism and the Younger Dryas event; 'Simplifying the field' - laboratory and experimental research; Monitoring the field; Fieldwork as a reflective and imaginative practice; Summary; Chapter 7. Systems - the framework for physical geography?; Systems analysis in physical geography; Application of systems thinking

Systems and changeCase Study: Systems and landscape sensitivity; Summary; Chapter 8. Change and complexity; Equilibrium - an ex-concept?; Chaos and complexity - more of the same?; Case study: Chaos theory and ecological systems; Emergence and hierarchies - scale revisited?; Case Study: Scale and (dis)connectivity; Case Complexity and change - landscape evolution and organization; Summary; Chapter 9. Modelling; Conceptual approaches to modelling; Types of models; Conceptual models; Analogue models; Deterministic models; Empirical- statistical models

Case Study: Numerical modelling of Late Quaternary relative sea-level change and glacial isostatic adjustment

Sommario/riassunto

<P>This accessible and engaging text explores the relationship between philosophy, science and physical geography. It addresses an imbalance that exists in opinion, teaching and to a lesser extent research, between a philosophically enriched human geography and a perceived philosophically empty physical geography.</P><P>The text challenges the myth that there is a single self-evident scientific method that can, and is, applied in a straightforward manner by physical geographers. It demonstrates the variety of alternative philosophical perspectives and emphasizes the difference that the real wo