These ten appraisals attempt to introduce so many complementary topics in an outline Valparaiso’s cultural landscape, each one of them fusing text and drawings. The essay outlines the area Valparaiso where cliff meets coastal plain. This that coincides with oldest urban development’s reveals dynamics transformation -improvements as well decay- repercussions a topographical chasm defies connecti...

Soil erosion threatens the sustainable intensification of food systems among smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Intensifying adoption soil mitigation rehabilitation measures is thus needed urgently these ASALs, but scaling up depends on scientific evidence their contributions to key components such as organic carbon. However, there no information how existing influence car...

Abstract. The construction of terraces is a key soil conservation practice on agricultural land in China providing multiple valuable ecosystem services. Accurate spatial information needed for both management and research. In this study, the first 30 m resolution terracing map entire territory produced by supervised pixel-based classification using multisource multi-temporal data based Google E...

We explore the hypothesis that because of their important role in collection activities related to environmental goods (firewood, water, grazing) the demand for children may increase with local resource depletion, setting up a vicious circle interaction between resource depletion and population growth. Using a large scale household data set from Pakistan with detailed information on female, chi...

The trajectory of social complexity is hardly a linear progression, with twists and turns precipitated by unintended consequences, consequences that can be advantageous or deleterious to a society and the biophysical environment that society inhabits. The article by Liu et al. (1) provides clear evidence for a complex set of environmentally altered landscapes principally designed to accommodate...

Twenty-five coast live oaks (Quercus agrifolia) ranging in size from 15 to 100 cm (diameter at breast height), transplanted to accommodate housing developments at three different sites in Calabasas, Calif., were studied for 3 to 4 years after boxing. Transplanted trees, plus 15 native control trees, were monitored quarterly. Water potential, shoot and root growth, and visual condition were meas...

Urbanization has profound effects on the environment at local, regional, and global scales. Effective detection of urban change using remote sensing data will be an essential component of global environmental change research, regional planning, and natural resource management. This paper presents results from an ARTMAP neural network to detect urban change with Landsat TM images from two period...

Excavations carried out at the Cave of Castelvenere in the province of Lucca have brought to light archaeological remains from various epochs datable from the second millenium B.C. up to the first centuries of the Christian era. The objects discovered suggest that the cave was the scene of cult activity a conclusion supported in part by the recovery of a number of unusual bronze figurines of gr...