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The Aesthetics of Horticulture: Neatness as a Form of Care
(American Society for Horticultural Science, 1988)
Perceived care of the landscape is a primary determinant of landscape attractiveness. Care is typically recognized in the neatness of a landscape; evennes of turn or crop color, placement of ornamental plants, use of fences ...
Assessing Potential Non-Economic Loss & Damage from Climate Change, Partnership with the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
(2018-01-01)
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), non- economic loss and damage (NELD) has emerged as a new concept to capture the full extent of potential loss or damage of factors that cannot be ...
Management of Farm Woodlots and Windbreaks: Some Psychological and Landscape Patterns
(Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1993)
This article reports on the relationship between measures of farmers' conservation attitudes and motivations on the one hand, and their self-reported and observed management of windbreaks and woodlots on the other. The ...
Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia
(2018-03-26)
Recent research has critically evaluated the rapid growth of volunteer urban environmental stewardship. Framings of this phenomenon have largely focused upon environmentality and/or neoliberal environments, unfortunately ...
Models of coupled population oscillators using 1-D maps
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1998-08)
Coupled population oscillators are investigated with the use of coupled logistic maps. Two forms of coupling are employed, reproductive and density. Three biologically distinct situations are investigated: populations ...
Restoring mental vitality in an endangered world: Reflections on the benefits of walking.
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2010-03)
Coping with the challenges of global climate disruption and the peaking of the rate of fossil fuel production will require behavioral change on a massive scale. There are many skills that will help individuals deal with ...
Arthropod biodiversity loss and the transformation of a tropical agro-ecosystem
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Chapman & Hall ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
The coffee (Coffea arabica) agro-ecosystem in the Central Valley of Costa Rica was formerly characterized by a high vegetational diversity. This complex system has been undergoing a major transformation to capital-intensive ...
Environmental psychology overview
(Routledge, 2013)
Environmental psychology is a field of study that examines the interrelationship
between environments and human affect, cognition, and behavior (Bechtel & Churchman, 2002; Gifford , 2007; Stokols & Altman ,1987). The field ...
Influence of invasive quagga mussels, phosphorus loads, and climate on spatial and temporal patterns of productivity in Lake Michigan: A biophysical modeling study
(2017)
These animations were created using output from a lower food web model linked to a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model. The lower food web was represented using a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus (NPZD) model ...
Land use and forest cover on private parcels in the Upper Midwest USA, 1970 to 1990
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper analyzes the interactions between land use and forest cover in the Upper Midwest, USA from 1970 to 1990. New data are presented and interpreted to evaluate the effects of land-use changes, especially abandonment ...