... on the contemporary landscape mapping by the traditional institutions and new initiatives that helped the individual systematists with the improvement and advancement of systematic cyberscience. The chapter also discusses the kinds of involvement needed for the success of the systematics project. The next sections...

... throughout the 20^th century, this process focused around engineering the flow of mainland waters, the 21^st century’s techno-natural configuration extends the engineering of Spain’s hydro-landscapes to the Mediterranean waters by means of large scale desalination projects. The chapter...

... sources Signaling protein Allostery Cytoskeleton Energy landscape Adrenaline epinephrine AND gate β2 adrenergic receptor Computation Energy efficiency Finite state machine Genome G protein G protein coupled receptor GPCR Mathematical operations in circuits Receptor protein molecule...

... agricultural system. Through ethnographic attention to monte , the chapter shows how the canalis entangled with cultural landscapes worked by groupswho conceptualize and manage the environment in different ways. Boquerón Panama community of Boquerón River Hydrology forests and Panama Canal...

... reform policies, or commodity markets.Therefore, rural people talk about “bad roads” to characterize more than a general state of poverty. Because road conditions aremultiscale sociopolitical relations materialized upon the local landscape, community members analyze those conditions to make sense oftheir...

...This chapter discusses the landscape of coffee production, coffee-production strategies employed, and the land use pattern in the rural landscape of Central Veracruz, Mexico. The role of social, political, and ecological interactions within the agro-chain of coffee community are examined...

...This chapter focuses on the analysis of the transformations currently experienced by the contemporary status of landscape in European societies. It derives heavily from Hannah Arendt’s “The Human Condition,” which, although it does not deal with landscapes, proposes a reflection on the “vita activa...

...This chapter focuses on the important role played by landscape in the Christian religious imagination. It argues for the ambiguity of “landscape” in the sense that locales like forests, fields, and mountains are both geographic realities and imaginary realities. Many locales are considered powerful...

... of its landscape. Britain United Kingdom Einstein Albert Hogarth William Iconography London city of Tourism BBC British Broadcasting Corporation Churchill Winston Class Democracy Dimbleby David Dimbleby Richard England Picture of Britain A BBC television series Question Time BBC television...

...This chapter discusses the making of the Dutch landscape as an analogy to the global effects of humans in the future. It concentrates on a delightful natural reserve that is little more than an abandoned peat mining district—the result of 1,000 years of hard labor, miserable poverty, fighting...

...This volume explores the conceptual “topography” of landscape: it examines the character of landscape as itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape. Chapters explore the concept of landscape, including its supposed relation to the spectatorial, its...

..., Buffalo, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Yet neither moonlight towers nor world’s fairs provided the model for downtown, where shops, theaters, and dance halls adopted electric signs and corporations spotlighted their skyscrapers. Despite opposition from the City Beautiful movement, a heterotopian landscape...

...Chapter 2, “The Materiality of Theory”, tells the story of the (ir)rationalization of the landscape of Palestine and Israel after 1948. It explores how the colonial legacies of cartography continue to influence land management and development efforts. It also outlines the benefits of combining...

...This chapter aims to prove that the term “landscape” does not merely refer to a particular genre of art; however, it will begin the discussion by studying a landscape painting by John Glover. Glover’s Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point has gained a deeper...

...This chapter focuses on a 1914 photograph by Stefano Bricarelli that can be considered a visual representation of the concerns of landscape. It explores the concept of the sublime in terms of the interplay between distance, immediacy, and representation. Before considering the concept of sublimity...

...This chapter discusses the slow burn of development which has impacted the Chinese landscape for a long time, despite the country’s urbanization. Although China’s modernization has been underway for the last 150 years, the country’s current global visibility has been mistaken for a sudden eruption...

... Tommaso Normalization Shop windows lighting Skyscrapers Slums Zoning lighting and Civil Twilight Design Collective Pollution arc light moonlight towers urban landscape Charles Brush Jenney Electric Company Thompson-Houston Wabash Detroit New Orleans nocturne In 1763, a British magazine...

... Billboards Coney Island Defamiliarization lighting and Heterotopia Luckiesh Matthew Statue of Liberty Woolworth Building Renaissance energy transition illuminations technological momentum electrified landscape hierarchy utilities Even as the national government adapted the spectacular lighting...

... on manual labor has left somepeople and places behind. In the pueblos perdidos , residentsinterpretlocal landscapes to make sense oftheir changing and ambivalent relationships with the Panama Canal administration. In particular, community members highlight a shift from “clean” (maintained...

... to have three common elements: landscape-scale focus, collaborative planning that includes all stakeholders, and implementation that is flexible and adaptive. Biology environmental regulation and Ecology Environmental regulation Worster Donald Holling C S Pickett S T A White P S Biological...