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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4631 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Communities need to revert to human ecological planning, a process that integrates the human perspective on the environment's past behavior with natural resource management practices, to prevent natural calamities from claiming high fatalities. This requires a multidisciplinary approach as well as the construction of a geographic information system and a chronological database about a region's ecological history.

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Title: Natural factors in planning. (includes related article on ecological planning)
Author: Ian L. McHarg
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v52Issue: n1Page: p13(5)

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Provides an up-to-date analysis of many aspects of Latin America through a series of short essays, written by experienced geographers. ... Read more

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In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This is the first volume to be published that addresses the historical contexts of the relations between these two characteristics of human nature. Individual essays and the general conclusions of the volume are important not only for our understanding of the evolution of knowledge of nature and of society, but also for an awareness of the types of truth and perception produced in the process. ... Read more

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This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment. ... Read more

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Can sociology help us to tackle environmental problems? What can sociology tell us about the nature of the environment and about the origins and consequences of environmental risks, hazards and change? In this important new book Alan Irwin maps out this emerging field of knowledge, teaching and research. He reviews the key sociological debates in the field and sets out a new framework for analysis and practice.


Among the themes examined are constructivism and realism, sustainable development and theories of the risk society. Readers are also introduced to communities at risk, institutional regulation and the environmental consequences of technology. Particular topics for discussion include genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, pesticide safety and the local hazards of the chemical industry. Rather than maintaining a fixed boundary between nature and society, Irwin highlights the hybrid character of environmental issues and emphasizes the role of social and cultural factors within environmental policy.


Combining theoretical discussion and case-studies with a sensitivity to the concerns of environmental policy and practice, Sociology and the Environment provides an excellent introduction to an expanding and immensely important field. It will be a valuable text for students and scholars in sociology, geography, environmental studies and related disciplines. ... Read more

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Environmental sociology
It is a very good book on environmental sociology.It documents relationships of environment,sociology and science/technology.
First, it discusses realist and constructist's point of view.
According to realist,environmental problems are simply impact upon society.According to constructivism,environmental problems are social construction.
Secondly,it explains important aspact of environment
'sustainable development'. It is the development which meets the needs of present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It requires changes in a number of systems e.g. political,social,technological to achieve harmony among humanbeing.humanity and nature.
Thirdly, it explains Ulrich Beck's 'Risk Society'.
Just as modernisation dissolved the structure of society in the 19th century and produced the industrial society, the modernisation today is dissolving industrial society and other modernity 'late modernity' or 'risk society'is coming into being. The proccess of modernity is becoming reflexive.Problems find constraints of everyday life are no longer externallt imposed, we enter a secondary phase of modernity,raising new challenges,scientifically induced risk and also problems (loneliness'anomie etc.)The reflexive modernisation , the proccess is 'automatic operation of autunomous modernisation process'.
Then it shows how science plays a significant role within the social construction of environmental threat.Here science,risk and environmental issues are explained by means of giving examples of chemical hazards,civil nuclear power and BSE.
Lastly,technology which is a vital for sociological analysis for
environmental sociology is explained. Here sustainable technology and role of technology for construction of alternative environmental future is explained.Relationshipof sociology,technology and environment is given.
It a book for a student of sociology,environment and any sincere reader. It shows how late modernity gives rise to risk society and further theories if risk society and ultimately reflexive modernisation concept. ... Read more

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This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward how-to approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process.

Part I provides an overview of the aims, principles, advantages and problems of SEA as well as looking at key SEA regulations and their requirements. Part II examines the SEA process in considerable detail including setting the policy context, describing the baseline, identifying alternatives, predicting and evaluating impacts and using the SEA information in decision-making. Part III is devoted to assuring SEA quality with a discussion of resources and capacity building.

This new edition incorporates five years' worth of practical application of the SEA Directive and SEA practice more broadly. Additions and updates include

Employing a host of real-life case studies and examples, each chapter presents a range of techniques and discusses what the final product should look like. Appendices provide a wealth of additional information including text of the SEA Directive and the UNECE Protocol on SEA, and a 'toolkit' of SEA techniques.

The approach and techniques in Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action are useful for anyone carrying out or studying SEA at any level, from policy to programme, international to local, but particularly for practitioners responsible for implementing the SEA Directive. ... Read more

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Bioregionalism is an exciting new vision for (re)making a more satisfying,ecological, sustainable society rooted in community and a celebratory culture of place. By providing tools to understand the land we live on and the sources of its natural regeneration, the more than 40 contributors to Home! open up new possibilities for the creation of cultures in keeping with the requirements of the natural world. Home! contains essays, poems, songs, and beautiful illustrations. ... Read more

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In this book, Robert Harms makes an important advance toward recovering the history of the people of the rain forest by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River.Using concepts drawn from game theory, Professor Harms explores the changing relationship between nature and culture among the Nunu. Picturing Nunu society as animated by a never-ending competition among lineages and households, he traces how the competition pushed people into new environments, and how adaption to the new environment, in turn, led to new forms of competition. ... Read more

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In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement.Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York’s environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city’s political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation’s colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods. ... Read more

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Re-Thinking Nature in New York City
Matthew Gandy's CONCRETE AND CLAY is a sweeping history of the different ways in which nature has been reworked in New York City.It includes an historical account of the ways in which the current water system was put in place.It also offers an in-depth discussion of the Olmstedian ideology of nature and space, a useful way for framing the ways in which construction and land use has functioned in NYC over time.In addition to these important historical insights, the book also offers a glimpse into early forms of local organizing in what would later take the distinct shape of the environmental justice movement in the history of the Young Lords.But because the book is specifically about NYC, Gandy focuses his attention on the Lords' movement in the city, while only offering a nod to the successful organizing campaigns that took place in cities like Chicago.This history of Young Lords activism against environmental neglect is often left out of mainstream historical accounts.Gandy situates it center stage and thus honors the impact the initial sanitation movement had for not just the Puerto Rican population, but for the city at large.This book is a must read for anyone interested in a different type of history of New York City, one taken from a perspective that challenges more common ideas about urbanity transcending nature. ... Read more

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This volume considers how buildings, places, and environments might sustain a more powerful sense of human wholeness, identity, and life. Contributors include philosophers, geographers, architects, and psychologists, who use a phenomenological approach to explore such themes as environmental experience, sense of place, architecture as at-homeness, and environmental design as place making. Chapters in the first section discuss the theoretical horizons of a phenomenology of environment. Following sections consider how the bodily, cultural, and symbolic aspects of architecture, landscape, and place contribute to the human experience of dwelling. The discussion provides innovative approaches to the person-environment relationship not often found in conventional environmental and design professions, as well as to scholars and laypersons who seek a new way to understand and improve people's relationships with natural and built environments. ... Read more

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Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides,  this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms of different types of landslides, landslide risk analysis, and sustainable disaster management. It comprises the achievements of the ICL over the past three years, since the Kyoto assembly. It consists of three parts: research results of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL); contributions on landslide risk analysis; and articles on sustainable disaster management. In addition, the history of the ICL activities (under the support of UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UN/ISDR, and UNU) is recounted to create a comprehensive overview of  international activity on landslides. The contributions reflect a wide range of topics and concerns, randing from field studies, identification of objects of cultural heritage at landslide risk, as well as landslide countermeasures. ... Read more

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To control the migration of radioactive and hazardous wastes currently contained underground, barriers made of natural materials and man-made substances are constructed atop, and possibly around, the contaminated area. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management provides a brief summary of the key issues that arose during the Workshop on Barriers for Long-Term Isolation.Recurring themes from the sessions include the importance of quality control during installation, followed by periodic inspection, maintenance, and monitoring, and documentation of installation and performance data. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management includes papers by the workshop presenters.FROM THE INTRODUCTION"The Committee on Remediation of Buried Tank Wastes (the "committee") was appointed by the National Research Council and has the general task of addressing critical generic and site-specific issues relevant to remediation of the environmental contamination from buried and tank-contained defense radioactive and mixed waste . . . The committee and representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Restoration agreed that a workshop on containment barriers would be useful. Participants in such a workshop would include government researchers and contractors, as well as barrier designers and builders from the private sector.The workshop program was designed to cover a wide range of barrier approaches using varius materials, both natural and man-made, and different installation techniques." ... Read more

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North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem functions and disruptions form a common thread among these cultures. This volume synthesizes the perspectives of several disciplines, such as ecology, anthropology, economy, and conservation biology. The chief goal is to gain an understanding of how human and ecological processes interact to affect ecosystem functions and species in the Americas. Throughout the text the emphasis is placed on habitat fragmentation. At the same time, the book provides an overview of current theory, methods, and approaches used in the analysis of ecosystem disruptions and fragmentation. ... Read more

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This text discusses the importance of cities for the economic, cultural, and political life of modern societies. The author consistently uses the political economy perspective to introduce students to the basic concepts and research in urban sociology, while also acknowledging the contributions of the human ecology perspective. Through the use of case studies, the presentation remains accessible and down-to-earth. ... Read more

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I had used this book with a course I had taken in college. It is very interesting if you are unfamilair with urban problems. If you are slightly familiar(by living in the city) it is still informative if you have a good teacher.

Amazing Insights to Urban Life
Took this book due to requirements of a course but found myself very engrossed to finish the book beyond course requirements. Author presents very diverse issues and perspectives to issues in urban life. There is a lot of appreciation to the cityscape in political and economic terms. It just makes you feel like these are things you see everyday in a city but fail to see why before this book. It's like peering into a painting and finally understanding how the artist created it. This is looking at your neighbourhood and realising the forces that shape the way your city look and feels like. Buy it! ... Read more

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Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But in 17th century England, a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that "a Christian man ought scarce to name them" threatened the very foundations of aristocratic hierarchy.

In A House in Gross Disorder, Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation both of the case itself and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief. Castlehaven was convicted of abetting the rape of his wife and of committing sodomy with his servants. More than that, he stood accused of inverting the natural order of his household by reveling in rather than restraining the intemperate passions of those he was expected to rule and protect. Herrup argues that because an orderly house was considered both an example and endorsement of aristocratic governance, the riotousness presided over by Castlehaven was the most damning evidence against him. Castlehaven himself argued that he was the victim of an impatient son, an unhappy wife, and courtiers greedy for his lands. Eschewing simple conclusions about guilt or innocence, Herrup focuses instead on the fascinating legal, social and political dynamics of the case and its subsequent retellings.

In prose as riveting as the moral and legal dramas it depicts, A House in Gross Disorder reconsiders ascandal that still speaks to contemporary anxieties about sex, good governance, and the role of law in regulating both. ... Read more

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For my college's senior seminar class this book was required reading so we could get the experience of how a researcher used secondary sources.

I could only get to page 10 of this book, and I had this book for months before senior seminar, it was that slow of a read and boring.

Excellent
A nice and satisfying read. Herrup combined a truly impressive amount of primary sources, scattered over 10 different archives and libraries. Instead of drowning in the source material and the vast body of secondary literature, she offers a nice, crisp and concise 150+ page analysis.

All the raunchy details of the Castlehaven case are there, but the supposed escapades of the Second Earl of Castlehaven are not the prime focus of this book. Through the relatively restricted prism of a scandalous lawsuit, Herrup achieves in painting a surprisingly broad and kaleidoscopical image of civil society in the mid-17th-century Britain. She skillfully treat themes such as the relations between men and wives, the official and actual perceptions of catholics and Irish, the delicate position of King Charles I and the strife at the royal court between old nobility and the recently ennobled.

Herrup carefully avoids any references to the marquis De Sade. It's easy to see why. Inclusion of De Sade would probably have broadened the scope of the book too much: times, country and circumstances were so much different. But still, it's seducing to compare the two. Sade was given a death sentence in 1772, just as Castlehaven 141 years earlier. Both men did notrepent, both their wives were of questionable reputation. And the accusations against Earl Mervin could have directly inspired parts of Sade's Philosophy In The Boudoir.

Great story, well-told
I loved this book.The story is unbelievable, and Cynthia Herrup does a great job of explaining all its ins-and-outs (no pun intended).If you want a novel, this ain't it.But if you want a great history book, this is for you.Me?I'm giving it to all my friends . . . and maybe my mom too!

A fascinating story made deadly dull
The story of the Earl of Castlehaven is almost too amazing to be believed--not only for the actions of the Earl himself, but also for his trial and what *it* said about English society of the time. In addition, the light that the trial sheds on that time's notions of sexuality, "family," and politics is astounding. But somehow, someway, Cynthia Herrup manages to make it all deadly dull. Reading the book was an exercise in tedium--Herrup's prose is strictly academic and she's given to long paragraphs in which she says precisely nothing.

There are many fascinating books on the subject of sexuality, politics, and family during this period of English history. This isn't one of them. ... Read more

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A coastal region's oldest inhabitants, particularly families of watermen and commercial fishers, often possess the deepest knowledge about a region and its ecological problems. Because of this, assaults on watermen lifeways and commercial fishing families--whether from organized recreational interests, real estate developers, or public policy makers--reduce the cultural and biological diversity of the coast and often upset the delicate environmental balance. Through the lens of the Mid-Atlantic Coast, especially the Chesapeake Bay and the Albermarle and Pamlico Sounds of North Carolina, David Griffith develops the theme that environmental degradation follows the loss of the most intimate understandings of coastal ecosystems. In The Estuary's Gift, Griffith traces the development of Mid-Atlantic cultures from the Algonquins and the earliest European families who hunted whales and netted herring, to present-day commercial fishing families who work the complex estuarine systems of the coast. In the process, he chronicles a series of developments that erode communities across American landscapes: the wearing away of local and regional history that results when national retail and restaurant chains convert local merchants into clerks and busboys, or the loss of biological diversity that follows the reconfiguration of countrysides to support monocrop agriculture, industrial chicken production, hog farming, forestry, and mining.Griffith insists that we heed the ways we treat one another in light of the ways we treat nature, measuring both by the standards we invoke when we give and receive gifts. Stories of conflict among fishers, of Mexican immigrant women brought to seafood houses to pick the meat from cooked, cooled crab---displacing and replacing African-American women--and of the slow yet steady attempts to criminalize family fishing practices that reach back thirteen generations show the ways in which the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of gift exchange have eroded. Only when we consider human relations as an integral part of the natural cycles will we begin to restore the balance.More than an account of the decline of fishing families or stressed natural resources, The Estuary's Gift illustrates how pressing social problems, such as environmental degradation and assaults on working families, play out in local contexts and local history. ... Read more

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Speaking for voices not heard
The Estuary's Gift is a beautiful and poignant expression of theconnections between people and the coastal environment. Through eightdelightfully written essays, Griffith entertains and educates in a poetic,lyrical style that draws the reader into a world that few of us know.Griffith teaches the reader about North Carolina's rich history incommercial fishing by introducing us to the people whose lives are linkedto this industry. No matter where you are live, this book will show you theconnections between your next seafood dinner , or vacation to the beach,and a unique way of life along the North Carolina coast. If you are fromcoastal North Carolina, don't be surprised if you see the lives of friendsand family reflected in this book.

Through his years of research, Dr.Griffith introduces us to some of the many men and women who as commercialfishermen are deeply rooted in an industry that is much more than a sourceof income. The North Carolina coast is home to some of the oldest fishingfamilies in the country, and this book speaks for these families and otherswho make a living from the coastal environment. These people have a senseof culture, community, and history from their lives as fishermen that isthreatened by fishing regulations and influences of population growth.These men and women also have an intimate knowledge of the water and itsever-changing conditions that sometimes result in problems for the seafoodindustry and the future of the esturaries. As they try to express problemsthey see from their daily contact with the water, many are ignored by rulemakers or "experts" in government. Catch limits, closed/openfishing areas, equipment regulations, and license requirements are allexamples of policies that were developed by "experts" who do notsee the daily effects the rules have in commercial fishing and the coastalecosystem.

Griffith also addresses how the population boom that alongthe coast that has impacted the health of the estuaries and the coastalcommunities. He discusses the impacts of "gift shop" fisheriesand revisionist developments that transform the traditional fishingcommunities into retirement and tourist boutiques that have littleappreciation of the past.

The Estuary's Gift is an intimate portrait of achanging way of life that is reflected in changes in communities andfamilies along the coast. By involving us in the lives of men and women whoare some of the many estuary's gifts, it speaks for voices not often heard.

Essays in bioregionalism
These delightfully written eight essays beautifully illustrate the concept of bioregionalism. Telling the stories of the commercial fishers of the Mid-Atlantic, the people who live along the coast of the Albemarle Soundand the Chesapeake Bay and who are farmers, fishers, and crabbers making aliving from the water, David Griffin weaves together a powerful tale of theinterrelationship of people and their natural environment. Based onextensive interviews over the past ten years, done in part for studies offishing reglations for the government of North Carolina and others, thereader hears the voices and concerns of the fishers who for generationshave lived in harmony with the estuary and its gifts of fish and shellfish.Threatened now by pollution down the Neuse River from the industrial farms,forestry and mining, the fishers are attempting to adapt and earn theirliving in other ways. They protest the regulations put in place to save theresource from being overfished. So here is a different side of the storyfrom that put forth by many environmentalists, told in the fishers' ownwords, with empathy for their plight. At what price will the North Carolinaand Virginia coastlines be developed for condos and fancy vacation houses?You be the judge of what we are winning and what we are losing. ... Read more

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benefit of hindsight
Consider that the book was written in 2000, before Hurricane Katrina rolled into town in 2005. It makes reading the narrative have an unintended aspect. From the vantage of hindsight you can see what some of the consequences of the history explained in the text have been. The development of the New Orleans region in the 20th century, with its extensive levees and inadequate and incompetent supervision by local boards is readily apparent. The tales of internal politics by those boards do not inspire much confidence. Along with the very fragmented nature of having several boards, whose coordination with each other was typically lacking.

The authors also do explain some of the colourful history of the town, especially before the 20th century. Which in part can explain why New Orleans still retains a grip on the American imagination. ... Read more

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These essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia. ... Read more