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Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of
the Niger Delta is available just as exploration and production
activities are moving into the little known deep water terrain of
the Niger Delta. A thorough understanding of the Cenozoic Niger
Delta will improve understanding and exploration of the evolution
of deeper offshore belts, help researchers strengthen and refine
existing Neogene nannofossil biostratigraphic schemes for the Niger
Delta region, and gain a better understanding of the relationship
between nannofossil assemblage variations and paleoenvironments.
The hydrocarbon reserves of the Niger Delta are an extremely
valuable natural resource. Biostratigraphy and Correlation play
important roles in the discovery, development and maturing of
hydrocarbon fields. Calcareous nannofossils have been important
tools for the stratigraphers in the Niger Delta and in recent years
exploration has moved into deeper offshore areas where nannofossils
are more abundant and diverse. Little has been published about the
calcareous nannofossil chronostratigraphy of the Niger delta.
Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of
the Niger Delta fills the gap for earth scientists and those
working in the oil and gas industry.
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis
of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable
development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for
decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and
development across all major regions of the globe. The first
section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land
tenure security and its connections with sustainable development.
The book then explores key thematic challenges that interact
directly with land tenure security, followed by a section on
strategies for addressing tenure insecurity. The book concludes
with a section on new frontiers in research, policy, and action. An
invaluable reference for researchers in the field and for
practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of this
important topic. This is an open access book.
Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development
and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a
reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are
interested in this subject and intend venture into serious
research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and
highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a
wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
Traceless takes inspiration from the Lake District, the Gerry
Charnley Round and Gerry Charnley himself. Charnley is little
remembered, but was a prolific fell runner, orienteer and climber
who founded the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon (KIMM),
now the OMM. In his early 50s he tragically died on Helvellyn, his
namesake Round was established in his memory by his friends. The
ethos of the Round is on self-sufficiency and leaving no trace -
the runner is encouraged to plan their own route to visit all the
checkpoints, then navigate that route, creating their own line from
multiple route choices. Inspired by the concept of the Gerry
Charnley Round and its journey over the Lakeland fells, runners
Geoff Cox and Heather Dawe have each spent time exploring and
running the route. They are poets, writers and artists as well as
fell runners and Traceless is a collaboration between them that
celebrates their love for the fells and how spending time in them
inspires them creatively.
This book provides a critical approach to research on the social
acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy
transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and
proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look
beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research
agendas on green growth and sustainability. It brings together
authors from different socio-geographical and disciplinary
backgrounds within the social sciences to reflect upon, discuss and
advance what we propose to be five cornerstones of a critical
approach: overcoming individualism and socio-cognitivism;
repoliticisations - recognising and articulating power relations;
for interdisciplinarity; interventions - praxis and political
engagement with research; and overcoming localism and spatial
determinism: As such, this book offers academics, students and
practitioners alike a comprehensive perspective of what it means to
be critical when inquiring into the social acceptance of renewable
energy and associated infrastructures.
Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of
us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that
formed it. This book explains the principles of geology, geography
and geomorphology, and shows how a basic understanding of
geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you
'read' the great outdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a
very accessible text that beautifully illuminates the landscape
around us.
'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Simply beautiful.'
STEPHEN MOSS 'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM 'Lyrical,
wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD 'A knockout. I loved it.'
MELISSA HARRISON 'Honest, raw and moving.' SOPHIE PAVELLE 'An
extraordinary book by an extraordinary author.' CHRIS JONES 'A book
of wit, wonder and of wisdom.' NICK ACHESON 'Beautiful.' NICOLA
CHESTER - A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend
unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love of rivers setting her
on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery. On New
Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out
with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate
never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends
bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later,
Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural
world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a
new phase of exploration. The Flow is a book about water, and, like
water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives,
landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and
Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the
chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs,
streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and
wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and
transformation. Threading together places and voices from across
Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our
personal and ecological place in nature.
Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending
from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern
Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering
seacoast to Canada's Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost
the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying parts
of six nations in Africa's wet equatorial middle; and the island
forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These
megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands
of cultures, and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and
celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever
Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the
atmosphere-the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of
carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years' worth of
global emissions at 2019 levels-and saving them is the most
immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet's most
formidable ongoing crisis. Reid and Lovejoy offer practical
solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face,
from vastly expanding protected areas, to supporting Indigenous
forest stewards, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous
prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with
the people and animals who inhabit them, Reid and Lovejoy take us
on an exhilarating global journey.
This title offers an inside look at the most successful campaign in
forest conservation history. "Roadless Rules" is a fast-paced and
insightful look at one of the most important, wide-ranging, and
controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in
the United States. In January 2000, President Clinton submitted to
the Federal Register the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
prohibiting road construction and timber harvesting in designated
roadless areas. Set to take effect sixty days after Clinton left
office, the rule was immediately challenged by nine lawsuits from
states, counties, off-road-vehicle users, and timber companies. The
Bush administration refused to defend the rule and eventually
sought to replace it with a rule that invited governors to suggest
management policies for forests in their states. That rule was
attacked by four states and twenty environmental groups and
declared illegal. "Roadless Rules" offers a fascinating overview of
the creation of the Clinton roadless rule and the Bush
administration's subsequent replacement rule, the controversy
generated, the response of the environmental community, and the
legal battles that continue to rage more than seven years later. It
explores the value of roadless areas and why the Clinton rule was
so important to environmentalists, describes the stakeholder groups
involved, and takes readers into courtrooms across the country to
hear critical arguments. Author Tom Turner considers the lessons
learned from the controversy, arguing that the episode represents
an excellent example of how the system can work when all elements
of the environmental movement work together - local groups and
individuals determined to save favourite places, national
organizations that represent local interests but also concern
themselves with national policies, members of the executive branch
who try to serve the public interest but need support from outside,
and national organizations that use the legal system to support
progress achieved through legislation or executive action.
Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine. His student
and friend, Volodymyr Vernadsky, went on to create
trans-disciplinary environmental sciences and the concept of Earth
as a living organism, famously taken up by James Lovelock. That
spring of ideas still flows and the researches captured in this
volume are relevant to present-day problems, and not only in
Ukraine. Soils have always been under stress but, in the
Anthropocene, mankind is in the driving seat. As a sequel to Soil
Science Working for a Living: Applications of soil science to
present-day problems, we consider issues of policy as well as soil
genesis, attributes and functions in various environments, natural
and man-made. We consider human impacts on the soil cover through
its use and misuse, highlight methods of research and assessment of
soil quality, and the threats of soil degradation. The
distinguished contributors also describe and propose various
options for evaluation and remediation of degraded soils, drawing
on the latest methods of modelling and cartography as well as
long-term field experiments and long experience. The book will be
invaluable to researchers and practitioners in soil science
including graduate and post-graduate education, academics and
professionals.
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