Landscapes of culture and nature
By: Rod Giblett.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230235847
Subjects: Human geography; Human ecology; Geographical perception; Landscape assessment
Description: "This book is a bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsQuaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind MeetPART I: UNCANNYAlligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous UncannyThe Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful NightPART II: WORLD WAR S(UB)LIMEEarth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench WarfareFire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of Cities in World War II Aerial WarfarePART III: PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBLIME AND UNCANNYWilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American WestThe Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness PhotographyPART IV: MINDSCAPESLand Health and Mental Health: A New Field of Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on FarmsTerrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes adn the Aesthetics of the FuturePART V: WATER-BODIESA Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National DisastersBlack and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-BodyNotesBibliographyIndex AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsQuaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind MeetPART I: UNCANNYAlligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous UncannyThe Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful NightPART II: WORLD WAR S(UB)LIMEEarth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench WarfareFire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of Cities in World War II Aerial WarfarePART III: PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBLIME AND UNCANNYWilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American WestThe Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness PhotographyPART IV: MINDSCAPESLand Health and Mental Health: A New Field of Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on FarmsTerrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes adn the Aesthetics of the FuturePART V: WATER-BODIESA Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National DisastersBlack and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-BodyNotesBibliographyIndex.