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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"landscape history"”.
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Holocene landscape history of southern Portugal
… meant that inferences regarding the vegetation history of the Algarve and related aspects of landscape evolution have had to be drawn from distant sites. Palaeoecological research has been hindered by the lack of suitable sites for pollen analysis. This thesis contributes to the understanding of …
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Worldly ecologies: Landscape, history, and environmental politics on Jeju Island
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Landscape history and contemporary environmental drivers of microbial community structure and function
… was to investigate the relative influences of landscape legacies and contemporary environmental factors on the distribution of soil microbial communities and their contribution to ecosystem processes across a glacial till sequence in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Within each till unit, I sampled …
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Settlement and field patterns in the South Pennines : a critique of morphological approaches to landscape history in upland environments
… have received significantly less attention from landscape and agricultural historians than lowland areas. The literature on fields, for example, is dominated by discussion of open or common fields, displaying an arable bias that ignores the pastoral nature of upland farming. National and county …
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Eolian Landscape History and Prehistoric Dune Farming in Petrified Forest National Park: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Understanding the Long-Term Use of a Marginal Landscape
… human-environment interaction in the eolian landscape in Petrified Forest National Park, Northeast Arizona. The Petrified Forest National Park is located along the southern end of an extensive sand sheet. This landscape was inhabited by Ancestral Pueblo people from at least A.D. 200–1400, and …
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Reconstruction of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate and landscape history in SE-Central Europe - A paleopedological and geochemical multi-proxy approach in loess-paleosol studies.
… of the Mid- and Late Pleistocene climate and landscape history of the region by a paleopedological – geochemical multi-proxy approach. Furthermore, methodological investigations aim to evaluate the validity of various paleoenvironmental proxies especially geochemically based weathering …
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Building the Fransaskois Identity through Drama
… literature within Saskatchewan’s literary landscape. Literary critics have to this day mostly excluded Fransaskois literature from the concept of Saskatchewan literature, and yet a close look at Fransaskois texts reveals an identity deeply anchored in Saskatchewan’s landscape, history, and …
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Peter Lanyon: A Life Geographic
… an artist born in 1918 in St Ives, as he painted landscapes of his home county, Cornwall, and his travels abroad. Here I open up a dialogue between the biographical and geographical, exploring a path between past and present, using material objects alongside memories and narratives affected by …
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La poetique du paysage dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant, de Kateb Yacine et de William Faulkner
… Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner combine landscape, history and identity in their work. The depiction of landscape in literature is not new, but the French Romantics in the 19th century, for instance, tended to describe the beauty of landscape without conceiving any rapport between …
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Lost in the Long Books: Revealing the organisation, operations and uses of the collegiate gardens in the University of Oxford between 1733 and 1837
… the first scholarly assessment of the collegiate landscapes of the University of Oxford based in their organisation, operation and use between 1733 and 1837. The thesis was a localised case study using primary data from archival sources and contemporary literature. The identified material was then …
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Rus in urbe: greening the English town, 1660-1760
… perceptions on the topographical and cultural landscape of the town. Representations of urban parks, gardens and walks reflect and respond to the intimacy of nature and the town meeting face to face, trading off the different images and associations that these environments summon. This research …
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The Origins and Early Development of the Parochial System in the Orkney Earldom
The thesis uses a landscape history approach, drawing on existing records and<br/>augmenting these with extensive observations in the field, towards understanding the location and context of ecclesiastical sites and parish boundaries in Orkney. An historiographical assessment of previous work, and …
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
… character. The interconnectedness of the natural landscape, the numinous and mythology gives rise to creative expression through various forms of neo-pagan artworks, which are discussed herein. The identifying features and key issues of Irish neo-pagan culture are addressed. These key issues are …
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Sacred Groves in Burial Grounds
… center of the Miao culture. In Miao settlement landscape history, there is one feature that can be found in many cultures. The Fengshui Lin, also known as the Sacred Grove, protects the village. The ancient songs and tales of Miao show that the Fengshui Lin can be seen as the spirits of the …
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Hydrological and Hydrochemical Responses From Thawing Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic
… factors such as elevation, surficial geology and landscape history. Highly localized factors that control drainage (e.g., ground ice content and soil texture) appear to influence the solute storage patterns in ground ice. Low elevation coastal areas may be more at risk to water quality impacts …
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Steps to the identification of the residue of the cultural heritage landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus 1910-1960
As the Campus Landscape Architect for the University of Pretoria, it has been an on-going challenge to gain an understanding and reliable data on the history of the landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus. With the pace of development taking place on the campus, in order to meet …
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The difference walls make' : cultural dynamics and implications of change in Sāmoan architectural traditions and socio-spatial practices (1940-2006)
… within social communities and physical landscapes. The ethnography describes how traditional open, round or oval house forms reflect and shape Sāmoan values, beliefs, traditions, and socio-spatial and temporal practices. It then delineates socio-cultural dynamics and implications of …
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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta
… In a liminal space between a violent, isolated history and a hopeful, democratic future, the organizers of documenta appropriated the damaged, but centrally located Museum Fridericianum as shelter for an exhibition of modern art. I trace the early history of the siting and architecture of the …
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The landscape evolution, geochemistry and biogeochemistry of Kangaroo Island
This work provides a landscape context and framework for the use of regolith and vegetation in mineral exploration on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Regolith field observations and the production of a regolith–landform map have improved constraints on the ferricrete plateau formation and also on …
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