Soils in the Urban Environment (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bullock, Peter; Gregory, Peter J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Urban areas contain a wide variety of open spaces, yet much of this has evolved under the pressures of human population with minimal management. The last 40 years have seen problems of varying severity begin to appear, including contamination, erosion, acidification and compaction. These problems have brought attention to the importance of the soil cover, the need for better understanding it, and the need for its protection. This book is a review of state-of-the-art science for soil in urban areas. Based on a meeting organized by the Nature Conservancy Council and the British Society of Soil Science, the nine chapters cover soil classification, contamination by waste and metals, physical and biological properties, nutrient provision and cycling, vegetation, and soil storage. The book provides a basis from which to plan future research and development programs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310597
• Artikelnr.: 38305647

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Jolley is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Staffordshire University, UK.  In the 13 years since completing his PhD in children's making and understanding of expressive pictures he has broadened his research interests in the topic of "children and pictures", taking a variety of perspectives including developmental, cognitive, clinical, educational, aesthetic, and cross-cultural.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.
Credits.
Introduction.
1 The Development of Representational Drawing.
2 The Development of Expressive Drawing.
3 Drawings from Children in Special Populations.
4 Production and Comprehension of Representational Drawing.
5 Children's Understanding of the Dual Nature of Pictures.
6 Drawings as Measures of Internal Representations.
7 Drawings as Assessment Tools: Intelligence, Personality and Emotionality.
8 Drawing as Memory Aids.
9 Cultural Influences on Children's Drawings.
10 The Education of Drawing.
11 Future Directions.
Further Reading.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Plates.

Rezensionen

"This book is academic in the good sense of the word: it containsthorough introductions to relevant theories and balanced overviewsof empirical data that support or contradict these theories."(International Journal of Education through Art, 1 May 2011)

"Children's drawing is a fascinating topic with a wide-rangingappeal, and this well-written and well-informed book will bevery useful to students and researchers of child development andart education, as well as being accessible to the generalreader. In ten clearly laid out chapters Richard Jolley givesan up-to-date overview of some of the debates in the field, anoverview amply supported by research findings. In a furtherand final chapter he suggests "future directions"which, I'm sure, will provide food for thought for many of theup-and-coming generation of researchers."
-Dr Maureen Cox, Emeritus Reader, Department ofPsychology, University of York

"A long time in the making, this book was well worth waitingfor. It is unusual in the range of topics it covers and theimportance it accords to the field. It can serve both as anintroduction for new readers and as a resource for establishedresearchers, which is extraordinarily hard to bring off. Thisis because the author is clearly conducting a dialogue with thereader throughout, in a gracefully styled stream of writing."
-Norman Freeman, Emeritus Professor and SeniorResearch Fellow, Cognitive Development, University of Bristol

"Psychologist Richard Jolley takes the reader on a fascinatingjourney, using children's drawings and their understanding ofpictures as a way to understand children's minds. This bookwill enlighten researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents- anyone who wants to understand why children draw in thesometimes odd, almost always charming, way that they do."
-Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, BostonCollege, and Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, HarvardUniversity