Working with Nature

2019-04-25 Nature

Author : Jeremy Purseglove
Release : 2019-04-25
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Working with Nature written by Jeremy Purseglove. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature and protect it - in effect, gardening on a global scale. It is also a memoir of encounters with larger-than-life characters such as William Bunting, the gun-toting saviour of Yorkshire's peatlands and the aristocratic gardener Vita Sackville-West, examining their idiosyncratic approaches to conservation. Jeremy Purseglove explains clearly and convincingly why it's not a good idea to extract as many resources as possible, whether it's the demand for palm oil currently denuding the forests of Borneo, cottonfield irrigation draining the Aral Sea, or monocrops spreading across Britain. The pioneer of engineering projects to preserve nature and landscape, first in Britain and then around the world, he offers fresh insights and solutions at each step.

The Work of Nature

1997-02 Nature

Author : Yvonne Baskin
Release : 1997-02
Genre : Nature
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Download or read book The Work of Nature written by Yvonne Baskin. This book was released on 1997-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lavish array of organisms known as "biodiversity" is an intricately linked web that makes the Earth a uniquely habitable plane. In this book, a noted science writer examines the threats posed to humans by the loss of biodiversity and explains key findings from the ecological sciences. It is the first book of its kind to clearly explains the practical consequences of declining biodiversity of ecosystem hjealth and function and, consequently, on human society.

Working with Nature

2007-01-01 Gardening

Author : Heide Hermary
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Gardening
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Book Rating : 769/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Working with Nature written by Heide Hermary. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Nature - Shifting Paradigms, brings together the science and research supporting an organic, holistic approach to horticulture. This book is a journey into the garden and the world as a whole in ways never likely seen or considered. The author has layed out many of the connections and processes at work when light, air, water, soil and life interact and transform the environment. When working in alignement with nature, many common problems never occur because one is not trying to go outside the natural laws that constrain us all. Instead of struggling to build and control a synthetic environment, one can now identify the existing environmental envelope and work with the natural forces to create and realize horticultural objectives. Once these relationships are seen, so many puzzles will disappear and many mysteries will now "just make sense."

Nature As Teacher

1999-05 Conservation of natural resources

Author : Viktor Schauberger
Release : 1999-05
Genre : Conservation of natural resources
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Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nature As Teacher written by Viktor Schauberger. This book was released on 1999-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature as teacher details Schauberger's thinking about environmental catastrophe.

How Nature Works

2013-11-11 Mathematics

Author : Per Bak
Release : 2013-11-11
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Nature Works written by Per Bak. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches to solar flares, all share a set of simple, easily described properties. "...a'must read'...Bak writes with such ease and lucidity, and his ideas are so intriguing...essential reading for those interested in complex systems...it will reward a sufficiently skeptical reader." -NATURE "...presents the theory (self-organized criticality) in a form easily absorbed by the non-mathematically inclined reader." -BOSTON BOOK REVIEW "I picture Bak as a kind of scientific musketeer; flamboyant, touchy, full of swagger and ready to join every fray... His book is written with panache. The style is brisk, the content stimulating. I recommend it as a bracing experience." -NEW SCIENTIST

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