Book Description
Norfolk played a unique role in the development of conservation. This book narrates the story of the movement, from its origins five hundred years ago to the present day.
Author : Susanna Wade Martins
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release :
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781782044802
Norfolk played a unique role in the development of conservation. This book narrates the story of the movement, from its origins five hundred years ago to the present day.
Author : Susanna Wade Martins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783270071
This book is not only about wildlife habitats, landscapes, historic buildings and archaeology; it is also about changing attitudes and priorities. --
Author : Peter Wade-Martins
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784916587
A personal history of Peter Wade-Martins archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer’s early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve archaeological heritage.
Author : Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415499992
Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a 'Conservation Movement', infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. Miles Glendinning's new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of architectural conservation, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.
Author : Robert Wyss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231541317
David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing. As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time.
Author : William M. Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317965051
Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades. This title, first published in 1986, deals with the critical issues surrounding nature conservation and wildlife protection. The book is broad in scope, with a focus on the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and its provisions for the protection of wildlife habitats in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). This follows an historical account of habitat loss over the past 200 years and the origins of conservation and site-protection policy. This reissue will be of particular value to professionals, voluntary workers and students with an interest in the origins, developments and practice of nature conservation.
Author : Arthur George Tansley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107610923
Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955) was an English botanist who made significant contributions to the development of ecology and the conservation movement. In this volume, which was first published in 1945, Tansley discusses the ways in which English natural habitats might be preserved in the face of post-war modernisation processes. The book puts forward the thesis that English rural beauty can only be protected through 'the deliberate conservation of much of our native vegetation', a process that must be achieved through a proper understanding of plant ecology. This process, of course, runs in tandem with the aim of protecting the various forms of animal life which find their homes within a diversity of habitats. The text also contains numerous photographic figures and a detailed index. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in ecology and botany.
Author : John S. Turner
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 9780858020320
Author : Wangari Maathai
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590560402
Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Author : Susanna Wade Martins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1783273305
An engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest.