Agricultural intensification on Pacific Islands often resulted in dramatic and durablemodifications to the environment. Irrigated terrace agrosystems for the cultivationof wetland taro (Colocasia esculenta) reshaped hillsides and stream valleys in many IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN FIJI . KUHLKEN AND CROSBY areas of Fiji. The functional morphology and design of several now abandoned ter-...

Abstract. The concept of preventive protection originates from the European heritage field. Nowadays, a complete knowledge system and normative reference framework have been formed in field museum collection cultural relics. However, it is just beginning traditional garden protection. Based on review theories practices international historical building heritage, this paper makes comprehensive s...

a’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

The article reveals the landscape diversity of historical garden and park – National Dendrological Park "Sofiyivka" Academy Sciences Ukraine in city Uman, Cherkasy region, founded 1796-1800. In classification gardening landscapes, developed by Ukrainian architect, doctor biological sciences Rubtsov L.I., 6 types landscapes are distinguished. NDP "Sofiyivka", as an object art, belongs to group a...

A garden-path sentence has temporary ambiguity that a reader or listener need to resolve. Prosody is well-known to have effects on sentence comprehension so it is expected that it will affect the interpretation of garden-path sentences. However, in an auditory comprehension test with natural speech, the garden-path effect may be unclear because a listener can typically resolve the ambiguity and...

This article deals with the history, names and uses of the garden cress in Indian Medicine.

This article summarizes a 2000 study of school garden programs and their variation and the impact of such variation on 427 third-grade students’ sense of responsibility and attitudes toward science and the environment. A teacher questionnaire was developed to gain insight into how teachers use school gardens with their students and in their curriculum. The information gathered from 28 third-gra...

An environmental assessment of six scenarios for handling of garden waste in the Municipality of Aarhus (Denmark) was performed from a life cycle perspective by means of the LCA-model EASEWASTE. In the first (baseline) scenario, the current garden waste management system based on windrow composting was assessed, while in the other five scenarios alternative solutions including incineration and ...