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Shrewdunnit
The Nature Files
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and communicating his enthusiasm for it to family, friends and, more recently, readers of a range of newspapers and magazines. Shrewdunnit brings together the best of these dispatches, alongside unpublished essays, in...
Nature Watch Austin
Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows humans to experience the natural cycles in the environment, no matter how urban the setting. In Nature Watch Austin, avid amateur naturalists Lynne and...
Design of Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Nature-Inspired Optimization
Design of Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Nature-Inspired Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book presents recent advances on the design of intelligent systems based on fuzzy logic, neural networks and nature-inspired optimization and their application in areas such as, intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, time series prediction and optimization of complex problems....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The observation of nature has been the inspiration for many materials, laws, and theories, as well as computational methods. Nature-Inspired computing Design, Development, and Applications covers all the main areas of natural computing, from methods to computationally synthesized natural phenomena, to...
Our Oldest Task
Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
“This is a book about nature and culture,” Eric T. Freyfogle writes, “about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure.” Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking back to a key phrase from the essays of eminent...
Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach...
Mountain Nature
A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is...
Nature in Common?
Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being?...
by Jan Laitos
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic...
Loving Nature, Fearing the State
Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In...
by Joseph K. Heumann, Robin L. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children Underground,...
Living Shorelines
The Science and Management of Nature-Based Coastal Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers,...
Urban Nature Conservation
Landscape Management in the Urban Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines. A widespread concern and interest in the wild plants and animal life found in...
Nature-Inspired Networking
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"Nature-inspired" includes, roughly speaking, "bio-inspired"+"physical-inspired"+"social-inspired"+ and so on. This book contains highly original contributions about how nature is going to shape networking systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous...