Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names by Stewart Arneil

“…The Landscapes of Injustice project seeks to encode mid-twentieth-century documents by and about the Japanese-Canadian community so they are accessible to modern audiences. …”
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Écologisation des arbres dans les agroforêts des Ghâts occidentaux (Inde) by Christelle Hinnewinkel, Sylvie Guillerme, Béatrice Moppert

“…Inhabited for over 12,000 years, the forested Western Ghats landscapes are an interesting object of study for understanding how environmentalist discourse about the tree is currently articulated with the farmers’ discourse about the tree resource. …”
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Propagation and Production of Gulf Bluestem by Mack Thetford, Debbie Miller

“…This plant is a candidate for beach projects requiring planting on the back side of a primary dune, or any side of secondary dunes, or for commercial or home landscapes. This prostrate or creeping perennial spreads by long stolons and is easily distinguished by glaucous leaves, prostrate growth habit, and terminal inflorescences with stalked spikelets from 4.0 to 6.5 mm (0.15 to 0.26 in) (Clewell 1985). …”
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Management and sustainability of ground-mounted solar parks requires consideration of vegetation succession as an omnipresent process by Markus Zaplata

“…In addition to the aspects of power generation, land use, aesthetics, nature conservation, and multifunctionality considered so far, there are still overlooked issues in the relatively new topic of solar landscapes. I reveal a connection with a supposedly not equally contemporary theme: ecological succession. …”
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Le pacte agriurbain de la vallée ombrienne et les districts agricoles et culturels de Milan by Giulia Giacchè, Biancamaria Torquati, Lionella Scazzosi, Paola Branduini

“…In peri-urban areas, the level of integration with the urban areas, the spatial organisation of the city and surroundings and the functions of agricultural system determine specific features of agricultural landscapes. The management of these areas is becoming increasingly important in order to guide the evolution orienteering the development in a perspective of spatial and functional - integration. …”
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Banana Populism: Exploring the Emotionally Engaging, Authentic, and Memeable Rhetoric of Populist Visual Communication by Zea Szebeni, Ilana Hartikainen, Sophie Schmalenberger, Michael Cole

“…This framework shows how seemingly innocuous visual articulations can profoundly impact political communication and identity formation in contemporary political landscapes.…”
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Lost Pathways of Urban Development by Erik Harms

“…Reflecting on photographic images taken before and during a period of mass eviction inspires a rethinking of the idea of the commons, crafted through a cultural approach that attends to the material landscape, the role of the non-human in social relationships, and the social production of landscapes.…”
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Building for Birds Evaluation Tool: Breeding and Wintering Habitat for Forest Birds by Mark Hostetler, Jan-Michael Archer

“…This evaluation tool is most useful for small developments or developments in already fragmented landscapes. The tool is designed for use when no opportunity is available to conserve large forest areas of 125 acres or more within a proposed development. …”
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Why Rebuild on Toxic, Sinking Ground?: The Challenges for Disaster Recovery in Southeast Louisiana by Jamie Lynn Chan

“…Through combining historical and ethnographic insights from the Black residents in Cancer Alley, the Vietnamese refugee community in New Orleans East, and the Indigenous tribal members of the Grand Bayou Village, this article argues that marginalized landscapes and livelihoods have been structurally made to become untenable within the economic bounds of disaster recovery. …”
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Building for Birds Evaluation Tool: Forest Fragments Used as Stopover Sites by Migrant Birds by Mark E. Hostetler, Jan-Michael Archer

“…This evaluation tool is most useful for small developments or developments in already fragmented landscapes. The tool is designed for use when no opportunity is available to conserve large forest areas of 125 acres or more within a proposed development. …”
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Are Consumers Interested in Ornamental Plants That Benefit Pollinator Insects? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…Fortunately, ninety million US households have yards, landscapes, or gardens that can enhance pollinator habitat and health. …”
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Agrobiodiversité et pratiques agricoles dans le pays Jbala (Tafza et Bellota) by Alexandrine Barontini, Younes Hmimsa

“…A traditional agriculture mostly characterised by the use of a subsistence mixed farming as part of a agro-sylvo-pastoral system of production which constitutes specific landscapes. Physical, natural, socio-economic and historic particularities created favorable conditions maintaining several rare cultivated plants and practices.Thanks to the international scientific cooperation project (PICS) « La Montagne et ses Savoirs », we have collected (between October 2013 and April 2014) a series of interviews with farmers, merchants or inhabitants of the region, in two sites: Tafza and Bellota.We present here the results of a modest comparison between the agro-biological diversity and the linguistic diversity, through some of the vernacular taxinomy concerning fruits and fruit trees.…”
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Public Land Management Agencies’ and Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners’ Perceptions towards Ecosystem Services by Taylor Stein, Namyun Kil, Alexis Frank, Alison E. Adams, Damian C. Adams, Francisco J. Escobedo

“…From clean air to pulp for paper to aesthetic landscapes, humans benefit from private and public forests in many different ways. …”
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During the Soviet era and following the collapse of the USSR. How post-Soviet states are (re)building their tourism sector. The examples of Ukraine and Georgia by Nataliia Moroz

“…In terms of domestic and hospitality tourism, these are more specifically areas under permanent (re)construction as a result of not only historical and political changes, but also identity and remembrance discourses that, moreover, mark their respective heritage landscapes. Ukraine and Georgia are two such symbolic examples through their quest to ‘de-Sovietise’ their tourism dynamics by changes in political discourses leading, on the one hand, to a war of monuments and remembrance, but also, on the other hand, to a ‘mythologisation’ and a ‘folklorisation’ of their tourist areas.…”
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Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…These territorial alliances are producing new political relations between local/central government actors and associational life while also dramatically transforming the cadastre, property rights, and landscapes of public infrastructure in urban Senegal.…”
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Building for Birds Evaluation Tool: Breeding and Wintering Habitat for Forest Birds by Mark Hostetler, Jan-Michael Archer

“…This evaluation tool is most useful for small developments or developments in already fragmented landscapes. The tool is designed for use when no opportunity is available to conserve large forest areas of 125 acres or more within a proposed development. …”
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Oltre i margini: comunità, risorse, prospettive by Laura Bonato, Damiano Cortese, Roberta Clara Zanini

“…This is a significant ‘growth potential’ still to be discovered through related strategic elements such as the environment, culture, agriculture, renewable energy and tourism, in order to enable a suitable economic development of local communities through the preservation of agro-cultural landscapes and historical-artistic heritage. …”
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Enhancing preservation of ancient buildings through color imagery analysis and activation: take yuelu academy as an example by Qian Huang, Keyi Liu, Jianan Gu, Zhaozhe Yang, Yi He, Yishen Zhao

“…The methodologies outlined herein hold profound significance in addressing challenges concerning visual color continuity in the preservation of historic architectural landscapes, offering innovative perspectives.…”
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Cost Estimates of Producing Sapodilla in South Florida, 2017 by Fredy H. Ballen, Aditya Singh, Edward A. Evans, Jonathan H. Crane

“…It should not be planted in home landscapes or in groves near natural areas. Sapodilla plantings must be fenced, and the fruit must be moved in covered vehicles to prevent fruit being eaten by wildlife and the plant from infesting areas outside the grove. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…On the one hand, this research shows the way Lawrence showcases examples of imperialist thinking by reproducing stereotypical representations of the Orient through excessive aestheticisation or demeaning of Oriental people and landscapes. On the other hand, this paper highlights Lawrence’s departure from the conventional imperialist discourse with more nuanced portrayals. …”
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