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Socially engaged art: the conscience of urban development [PDF]
, 2009 Book synopsis: Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural ...
Hope, Sophie
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Review of ecological restoration technology for mine tailings in China [PDF]
, 2016 The disposal of mine tailings is identified as one source of an environmental impact finally resulting in a typically degraded ecosystem. It can easily cause air and water pollution and is a source of man-made mudslides with high-potential socioeconomic ...
Fang Chen, Jingyi Tian, Qiang Yao
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Soil carbon development in rejuvenated Indian coal mine spoil [PDF]
, 2016 The impact of mine spoil on the landscape is significant, as excavated rock-debris is commonly disposedin heaps that blanket the original land surface.
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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A survey on spatial variations of groundwater quality in Kabul, Afghanistan and its evaluation for different uses [PDF]
علوم و مهندسی آبیاریGroundwater is one of the most important sources of freshwater supply in arid and semi-arid regions. The purpose of this research is to investigate the chemical quality of Kabul's groundwater using statistical description methods, statistical ...
Serajuddin Saed, Hadi Farhadian
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Effect of phytoprotein treatment on Jatropha curcas for wasteland reclamation
African Journal of Biotechnology, 2010 Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae) is a perennial oil yielding plant. Jatropha is also host to a large number of pathogens such as Cercospora sp. The systemic resistance and overall performance was enhanced by seed soak treatment with leaf extract of Clerodendrum aculeatum.
Debnath, M, Verma, HN
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, 1998 Organising peasants was a Chinese Communist strategy for 'democratising' rural China. In the view of most western historians, the Communists’ grassroots organisations have been the means through which a hegemonising Partystate penetrated rural society to
Keating, Pauline B.
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Needs for policy on landscape restoration in India [PDF]
, 2015 In India, population growth and rapid industrialization concurrent with an ever increasing quest for better quality of life have resulted in a growing demand for energy and infrastructure, leading to significant impact on the country’s environment and ...
Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan +1 more
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The world’s earliest Aral-Sea type disaster: the decline of the Loulan Kingdom in the Tarim Basin [PDF]
, 2017 The presented data are accessible in the PANGAEA database, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871173.Remnants of cities and farmlands in China’s hyperarid Tarim Basin indicate that environmental conditions were significantly wetter two millennia ago ...
Jiao, Pengcheng +6 more
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