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    Forests as Complex Social and Ecological Systems : A Festschrift for Chadwick D. Oliver (2022)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Applied ecology. ; Environmental management. ; Forestry. ; Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; System theory. ; Applied Ecology. ; Environmental Management. ; Forestry. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Complex Systems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Chad Oliver and forests as complex systems; Melih Boydak -- Section I. Complex Forest Stand Dynamics -- 2. Principles of stand reconstruction to illuminate stand dynamics of complex forests in Alaska; Bob Deal -- 3: Forest stand dynamics principles used to guide the management of uneven-aged forest in the Missouri Ozarks; Dave Larsen -- 4: Forest stand dynamics and the curious case of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum; Patrick Baker -- 5: Modelling and mapping complex stand structures with airborne LiDAR; John Kershaw -- 6. How might the concepts of traditional stand dynamics be used for more complex stands; Bruce Larson -- Section II. Forests as Complex Ecological Systems -- 7. Integrating effects of climate on temperate montane forests; Pil Sun Park -- 8. Carbon++: integrating non-CO2 forcers in our understanding of forests and climate; Kris Covey -- 9. Understanding post-wildfire fuel dynamics in dry forests of the Pacific Northwest; Morris Johnson -- 10. Understanding forestry through pictures: A journey of graphics, pictures, and visualisations; Jim McCarter -- 11. The inertia of forested landscapes and applications to management; Jeremy Wilson -- Section III. Forests as Complex Social Systems -- 12. Tiger in the woods, elephant in the room; Xuemei Han -- 13. Forests as complex systems: Implications from the perspective of sustainable development; Glenn Galloway -- 14. Securing forest tenure for rural development; Gerardo Segura -- 15. Understanding the dynamics between forests and livelihoods: A case of Central Indian landscapes; Alark Saxena -- 16. Closing comments; Chad Oliver. .
    Abstract: Professor Chadwick Dearing Oliver has made major intellectual contributions to forest science and natural resources management. Over the course of his career he has actively sought to bring research and practice together through synthesis, outreach, and capacity-building. A common thread throughout his career has been complexity and how we as a society understand and manage complex systems. His work on forest stand dynamics, landscape management, and sustainability have all focused on the emergent properties of complex ecological and/or social systems. This volume celebrates a remarkable career through a diverse group of former students and colleagues who work on a wide range of subject areas related to the management of complex natural resource systems. Over the past decade there has been considerable discussion about forests as complex adaptive systems. Advances in remote sensing, social methods, and data collection and processing have enabled more detailed characterisations of complex natural systems across spatial and temporal scales than ever before. Making sense of these data, however, requires conceptual frameworks that are robust to the complexity of the systems and their inherent dynamics, particularly in the context of global change. This volume presents a collection of cutting-edge research on natural ecosystems and their dynamics through the lens of complex adaptive systems. Each chapter offers new insights into how these systems can be made more resilient to ensure that they provide a diversity of ecological and social values well into the future. Together they provide a robust way of thinking about the many challenges that natural ecosystems face and how we as society may best address them.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVIII, 334 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030885557
    Series Statement: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 41
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88555-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88555-7
    DDC: 333.9516
    Language: English
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    Agromining: Farming for Metals : Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants (2021)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental engineering. ; Biotechnology. ; Bioremediation. ; Pollution. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. ; Pollution. ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Long Road to Developing Agromining/Phytomining -- 2 Agronomy of ‘Metal Crops’ Used in Agromining -- 3 Processing of Bio-ore to Products -- 4 Processing of Bio-ore to Products: REEs, and other elements -- 5 Life Cycle Assessment and Ecosystem Services of Agromining -- 6 Global Distribution and Ecology of Hyperaccumulator Plants -- 7 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Trace Element Hyperaccumulation -- 9 Tools for the Discovery of Hyperaccumulator Plant Species and Understanding Their Ecophysiology -- 10 Genesis and Behaviour of Ultramafic Soils and Consequences for Nickel Biogeochemistry -- 11 The Role of the Rhizosphere and Microbes Associated with Hyperaccumulator Plants in Metal Accumulation -- 12 Incorporating Hyperaccumulator Plants into Mine Rehabilitation in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 13 Agromining of High-Value Elements and Contaminants from Minerals Wastes -- 14 Agromining from Various Industrial Wastes -- 15 Phytoextraction of Cadmium: Feasibility in Field Applications and Potential Use of Harvested Biomass -- 16 Metal recovery with agromining from former mine and industrial sites under restoration -- 17 Element Case Studies: Nickel (temperate/Mediterranean regions).
    Abstract: This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining production chain. Agromining is an emerging technology that aims to transform the extraction of sources of target elements not accessible by traditional mining and processing techniques. Agromining, which is based on sustainable development, uses hyperaccumulator plants as 'metal crops' farmed on sub-economic soils or minerals wastes to obtain valuable target elements. This volume is edited and authored by the pioneers in the rapidly expanding field of agromining and presents the latest insights and developments in the field. This book provides in-depth information on the global distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants, their biogeochemical pathways, the influence of rhizosphere microbes, the physiology and molecular biology of hyperaccumulation, as well as aspects of propagation and conservation of these unusual plants. It describes the agronomy of metal crops and opportunities for incorporating agromining into rehabilitation and mine closure, including test cases for agromining of nickel, cobalt, manganese, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, zinc, thallium, rare earth elements and platinum group elements. Since the first edition was published, there have successful nickel agromining field trials in the tropics (in Malaysia and Guatemala), and these are presented in a dedicated case study chapter. Other new chapters focus on the processing of bio-ore for elements other than nickel, such as rare earth elements and cadmium, and on agromining from industrial wastes such as tailings, and industrial by-products and sites. Furthermore, the book features two new chapters that provide a comprehensive assessment of accumulation a very wide range elements from the Periodic Table in various plant species around the globe, and a chapter on practical methods for discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium. This book is of interest to environmental professionals in the minerals industry, government regulators, and academics.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 489 p. 119 illus., 108 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030589042
    Series Statement: Mineral Resource Reviews,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2
    DDC: 628
    Language: English
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    Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2021)
    Duke University Press | Duke University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not. Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront “the Negro problem” in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropology’s different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the field’s different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Baker tells how anthropology has both responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated (and misappropriated) to wildly different ends.
    Keywords: Social Science ; Ethnic Studies ; American ; Social Science ; Ethnic Studies ; American ; African American & Black Studies ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
    Language: English
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