Therapeutic landscapes are reputed to have a lasting repute for realizing healing. Traditional therapeutic landscapes have recognized natural environments as often sought after places for well-being. Such places promote wellness via their close encounter with nature, facilitating relaxation and restoration, and enhancing a combination of physical, mental, and spiritual healing. The physical environment of Iceland is explored through a case study approach, primarily employing data from the field notebooks of post-secondary students travelling in Iceland, as well as the authors’ ethnographic field experience in Iceland. Iceland is examined using both a traditional understanding of therapeutic landscapes, as well as the contemporary understanding of the coloured landscape. In addition to the colour white, reflected in the glacial ice, moving water, and geo-thermal steams, black and various other colours in combination are discussed.
Expansion in the world's human population and economic development will increase future demand for fish products. As global fisheries yield is constrained by ecosystems productivity and management effectiveness, per capita fish consumption can only be maintained or increased if aquaculture makes an increasing contribution to the volume and stability of global fish supplies. Here, we use predictions of changes in global and regional climate (according to IPCC emissions scenario A1B), marine ecosystem and fisheries production estimates from high resolution regional models, human population size estimates from United Nations prospects, fishmeal and oil price estimations, and projections of the technological development in aquaculture feed technology, to investigate the feasibility of sustaining current and increased per capita fish consumption rates in 2050. We conclude that meeting current and larger consumption rates is feasible, despite a growing population and the impacts of climate change on potential fisheries production, but only if fish resources are managed sustainably and the animal feeds industry reduces its reliance on wild fish. Ineffective fisheries management and rising fishmeal prices driven by greater demand could, however, compromise future aquaculture production and the availability of fish products. 相似文献
Abstract The detailed characteristics of a CASPII warm frontal passage are presented in this article. This storm, Intensive Operating Period (IOP) 13 (February 26–27, 1992), was observed in detail with an array of diverse instruments. It has the advantage over earlier freezing precipitation studies of having simultaneous, in situ and remote sensing measurements by aircraft and ground‐based Doppler radar. The associated precipitation was in the form of banded structures parallel to the front. Within these bands were embedded precipitation cores, some parallel to the band, some perpendicular. The warm front itself was characterized by major perturbations in its kinematic and thermodynamic features. The cores oriented parallel to the front were the result of embedded convection generated, at least in part, by the irregularities in the frontal surface. The cores oriented perpendicular to the front were closely associated with the 0°C isotherm on the underside of the frontal inversion. Precipitation phase changes played a significant role in the occurrence of wide near 0°C regions, both vertically and horizontally. These regions had a profound influence on the observed precipitation types and led to complex precipitation‐thermodynamic‐dynamic interactions. Instabilities produced by these interactions are seen in wave‐like features observed by the Doppler radar in these regions, both parallel and perpendicular to the frontal zone. 相似文献
The primary factors that control the concentration of total reduced (inorganic) sulfide in coastal sediments are believed
to be the availability of reactive iron, dissolved sulfate and metabolizable organic carbon. We selected nine sites in shallow
(<3 m), close to sub-tropical, estuaries and bays along the central Texas coast that represented a range in sediment grain
size (a proxy for reactive iron), salinity (a proxy for dissolved sulfate), and total organic carbon (a proxy for metabolizable
organic carbon). Based on these parameters a prediction was made of which factor was likely to control total reduced sulfide
at each site and what the relative total reduced sulfide concentration was likely to be. To test the prediction, the sediments
were analyzed for total reduced sulfide, acid volatile sulfide, and citrate dithionate-extractable, HCl-extractable and total
Fe in the solid phase. Using solid-state gold–mercury amalgam microelectrodes and voltammetry, we determined pore water depth
profiles of Fe(II) and ΣH2S and presence or absence of FeS(aq). At five of the nine sites the calculated degree of sufildization of citrate dithionite-reactive-iron was close to or greater
than 1 indicating that rapidly reactive iron was probably the limiting factor for iron sulfide mineral formation. At one site
(salinity = 0.9) dissolved Fe(II) was high, ΣH2S was undetectable and the total reduced sulfide concentration was low indicating sulfate limitation. At the last three sites
a low degree of sulfidization and modest total reduced (inorganic) sulfide concentrations appeared to be the result of a limited
supply of metabolizable organic carbon. Fe(II)–S(-II) clusters (FeS(aq)) were undetectable in 10 out of 12 bay sediment profiles where ΣH2S was close to or below detection limits, but was observed in all other porewater profiles. Acid volatile sulfide, but not
total reduced sulfide, was well correlated with total organic carbon and ranged from being undetectable in some cores to representing
a major portion of total reduced sulfide in other cores. Although predicted controls on total reduced sulfide were good for
very low salinity water or sandy sediments, they were only right about half the time for the other sediments. The likely reasons
for the wrong predictions are the poor correlation of total organic carbon with grain size and differing fractions of metabolizable
organic carbon in different sedimentary environments. Differences in sediment accumulation rates may also play a role, but
these are difficult to determine in this region where hurricanes often resuspend and move sediments. This study demonstrates
the need to examine more complex and often difficult to determine parameters in anoxic “normal marine” sediments if we are
to understand what controls the concentration and distribution of sulfides. 相似文献
Three-dimensional seismic data from the Faeroe-Shetland Basin provides detailed information on the relationships between sills,
dykes, laccoliths and contemporaneous volcanic activity. The data shows that sills are predominantly concave upwards, being
complete or partial versions of radially or bilaterally symmetrical forms that possess flat inner saucers connected to a flat
outer rim by a steeply inclined sheet. Such morphologies are only partially modified by pre-existing faults. Sills can be
sourced from dykes or the steep climbing portions of deeper sills. Both sills and dykes can provide magma to overlying volcanic
fissures and sills can be shown to feed shallow laccoliths. Magma flow patterns, as revealed by opacity rendering, suggest
that sills propagate upwards and outwards away from the magma feeder. As an individual sill can consist of several leaves
emplaced at different stratigraphic levels, and as a sill or dyke can provide magma to volcanic fissures, other sills and
laccoliths, the data suggests that neutral buoyancy concepts may not provide a complete explanation for the mechanism and
level of sill emplacement. Instead, the data suggests that the presence of lithological contrasts, particularly ductile horizons
such as overpressured shales may permit sill formation at any level below the neutrally buoyant level.
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Ken Thomson–deceased, April 2007 相似文献
Fires occur frequently in many biomes and generate high temperatures on the ground surface. There are many field examples of fire causing rock disintegration. The simulation of fire in the laboratory (using a furnace) and the monitoring of changes in rock modulus of elasticity (with a Grindosonic apparatus), reveal that different rocks respond differently to heating. Significant decreases in elasticity occur at temperatures as low as 200°C and granites display particularly marked reductions. Extended periods of heating are not required for significant reductions to occur. It is postulated that the degree of change in elasticity as a result of simulated fire is such that rock outcrops subjected to real fires are likely to be sufficiently modified as to increase their susceptibility to erosion and weathering processes. 相似文献