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Empty pastures [[electronic resource] ] : confined animals and the transformation of the rural landscape / / Terence J. Centner
Empty pastures [[electronic resource] ] : confined animals and the transformation of the rural landscape / / Terence J. Centner
Autore Centner Terence J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina 636/.00973
Soggetto topico Agriculture - United States
Agricultural ecology - United States
Agriculture - Environmental aspects - United States
Landscape changes - United States
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-15564-8
9786613155641
0-252-09080-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910462558203321
Centner Terence J  
Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2004
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Empty pastures [[electronic resource] ] : confined animals and the transformation of the rural landscape / / Terence J. Centner
Empty pastures [[electronic resource] ] : confined animals and the transformation of the rural landscape / / Terence J. Centner
Autore Centner Terence J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina 636/.00973
Soggetto topico Agriculture - United States
Agricultural ecology - United States
Agriculture - Environmental aspects - United States
Landscape changes - United States
ISBN 1-283-15564-8
9786613155641
0-252-09080-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910790256203321
Centner Terence J  
Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2004
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The making of the American landscape / / edited by Michael P. Conzen
The making of the American landscape / / edited by Michael P. Conzen
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (568 p.)
Disciplina 304.20973
Altri autori (Persone) ConzenMichael P
Soggetto topico Human geography - North America
Human geography - United States
Landscape changes - North America
Landscape changes - United States
Nature - Effect of human beings on - North America
Nature - Effect of human beings on - United States
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-317-79370-6
1-315-81082-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Introduction; 1 Recognizing Nature's bequest; Climates; The physiographic layout; Natural regions; The Far West; The Central Interior; The East; 2 Retrieving American Indian landscapes; Adapting to new environments; Toward an agricultural landscape in the East; Pueblo and irrigation agriculture in the Southwest; The European intrusion; The surviving legacy; 3 Refashioning Hispanic landscapes; Spanish exploration; Populating the land
Shaping the bordersSpanish legacy; 4 Retracing French landscapes in North America; Footholds on the continent; The core landscapes of New France; The French crescent: St. Lawrence to the Mississippi; The legacy; 5 Americanizing English landscape habits; An American version of England; A different sort of place; A different sort of people; Two regions of the Northeast; The New England culture region; The Pennsylvania culture region; The two landscapes of the Northeast: differences in vernacular architecture; Barns and other rural matters; Urban forms
The cultural-geographical baggage goes west6 Transforming the Southern plantation; Establishment of plantation agriculture in continental North America; The ""Old South"" plantation; The ""New South"" plantation; Toward the modern plantation; The increase of fragmented mega-farms; 7 Gridding a national landscape; A system to span the continent; Single farmsteads; Townsites; The section roadscape; The conservation landscape; Toward a national landscape; 8 Clearing the forests; The landscape of clearing; The landscape of logging; The landscape of fuel gathering; The balance sheet
9 Remaking the prairiesVegetation and settlement; Migration patterns; The western Plains; Town settlement; Conclusion; 10 Watering the deserts; Finding the desert; Transforming the desert: looking at dams and ditches; The prehistoric legacy in central Arizona; Hispanic settlement in the Rio Grande Valley; The Mormon desert; Federal transformation of the Colorado River; Conclusions; 11 Inscribing ethnicity on the land; Why here and not there? The shaping of early ethnic landscapes; Enduring rural and small town landscape features; Ethnic cityscapes
Ethnic tourism and ethnic heritage landscapesAnd what of the future?; 12 Organizing religious landscapes; The mainly metropolitan churchscape; Matters architectural; The rural scenes; The other structures; Cemeteries; Signs; Envoi; 13 Mechanizing the American earth; Colonial beginnings; Emergence of the manufacturing belt; Specialization in core and periphery; The blend of old and new; 14 Building American cityscapes; The economic landscape; Social landscapes; Governance and the landscape; The American way; 15 Asserting central authority; The early federal presence
Federal landscape influence after the Civil War
Record Nr. UNINA-9910464564903321
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Materiale a stampa
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The making of the American landscape / / edited by Michael P. Conzen
The making of the American landscape / / edited by Michael P. Conzen
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (568 p.)
Disciplina 304.20973
Altri autori (Persone) ConzenMichael P
Soggetto topico Human geography - North America
Human geography - United States
Landscape changes - North America
Landscape changes - United States
Nature - Effect of human beings on - North America
Nature - Effect of human beings on - United States
ISBN 1-317-79370-6
1-315-81082-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Introduction; 1 Recognizing Nature's bequest; Climates; The physiographic layout; Natural regions; The Far West; The Central Interior; The East; 2 Retrieving American Indian landscapes; Adapting to new environments; Toward an agricultural landscape in the East; Pueblo and irrigation agriculture in the Southwest; The European intrusion; The surviving legacy; 3 Refashioning Hispanic landscapes; Spanish exploration; Populating the land
Shaping the bordersSpanish legacy; 4 Retracing French landscapes in North America; Footholds on the continent; The core landscapes of New France; The French crescent: St. Lawrence to the Mississippi; The legacy; 5 Americanizing English landscape habits; An American version of England; A different sort of place; A different sort of people; Two regions of the Northeast; The New England culture region; The Pennsylvania culture region; The two landscapes of the Northeast: differences in vernacular architecture; Barns and other rural matters; Urban forms
The cultural-geographical baggage goes west6 Transforming the Southern plantation; Establishment of plantation agriculture in continental North America; The ""Old South"" plantation; The ""New South"" plantation; Toward the modern plantation; The increase of fragmented mega-farms; 7 Gridding a national landscape; A system to span the continent; Single farmsteads; Townsites; The section roadscape; The conservation landscape; Toward a national landscape; 8 Clearing the forests; The landscape of clearing; The landscape of logging; The landscape of fuel gathering; The balance sheet
9 Remaking the prairiesVegetation and settlement; Migration patterns; The western Plains; Town settlement; Conclusion; 10 Watering the deserts; Finding the desert; Transforming the desert: looking at dams and ditches; The prehistoric legacy in central Arizona; Hispanic settlement in the Rio Grande Valley; The Mormon desert; Federal transformation of the Colorado River; Conclusions; 11 Inscribing ethnicity on the land; Why here and not there? The shaping of early ethnic landscapes; Enduring rural and small town landscape features; Ethnic cityscapes
Ethnic tourism and ethnic heritage landscapesAnd what of the future?; 12 Organizing religious landscapes; The mainly metropolitan churchscape; Matters architectural; The rural scenes; The other structures; Cemeteries; Signs; Envoi; 13 Mechanizing the American earth; Colonial beginnings; Emergence of the manufacturing belt; Specialization in core and periphery; The blend of old and new; 14 Building American cityscapes; The economic landscape; Social landscapes; Governance and the landscape; The American way; 15 Asserting central authority; The early federal presence
Federal landscape influence after the Civil War
Record Nr. UNINA-9910786685703321
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Materiale a stampa
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National climate assessment technical report on the impacts of climate and land use and land cover change / / by Thomas Loveland [and six others]
National climate assessment technical report on the impacts of climate and land use and land cover change / / by Thomas Loveland [and six others]
Autore Loveland Thomas R.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vi, 87 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Collana Open-file report
Soggetto topico Climatic changes - United States
Landscape changes - United States
Risk assessment - United States
Climatic changes
Risk assessment
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910712060003321
Loveland Thomas R.  
Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2012
Materiale a stampa
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Rates, trends, causes, and consequences of urban land-use change in the United States [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Acevedo ... [and others]
Rates, trends, causes, and consequences of urban land-use change in the United States [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Acevedo ... [and others]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2006
Descrizione fisica iv, 200 pages : digital, PDF file
Altri autori (Persone) AcevedoWilliam
Collana Professional paper
Soggetto topico Land use, Urban - United States
Landscape changes - United States
Urbanization - United States
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910698467903321
Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2006
Materiale a stampa
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