Andrew Goudie: Landscape Heritage of the World with Google Earth, Gebunden
Landscape Heritage of the World with Google Earth
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- Verlag:
- Springer, 09/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031955549
- Artikelnummer:
- 12508035
- Umfang:
- 208 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 832 g
- Maße:
- 285 x 215 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 27.9.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish. Taking examples from all over the world, this book aims to demonstrate their value for understanding heritage landscapes and for appreciating their aesthetics. It is organised around different types of landscape and the processes that created them, rather than regionally or on the basis of age. It includes a large number of archaeological sites that have been designated as UNESC0 World Heritage Sites. Google Earth has proved to be important for demonstrating some of the threats that major sites have been exposed to, including during recent wars in the Middle East. The landscapes discussed are those of Water Management, Agricultural Management, War, Burial, Mines, Quarries and Salterns, Cities and Settlements, Tells, Theatres, Amphitheatres, and Hippodromes, Churches, Temples, Pagodas, and Mosques, and Geoglyphs.
Biografie
Andrew Goudie ist Professor für Geographie an der Universität Oxford. Er erhielt die Medaille der Royal Geographical Society und die Mungo Park Medaille der Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Er hat sich als Verfasser mehrerer erfolgreicher Lehrbücher einen Namen gemacht.