Environment Franklin Science

This comprehensive textbook is the first to offer an integrated approach to geoarchaeology -- the direct use of geologic concepts, methods, and knowledge to solve archaeological problems and interpret archaeological records. George (Rip) Rapp, Jr., and Christopher Hill frame geologic concepts within an archaeological context, offering specific examples that demonstrate how geologic methods can be used to interpret the human past. A wide-ranging introduction sets the historical and theoretical stage. Subsequent chapters cover sediments and soils; contexts of archaeological record formation; paleoenvironmental reconstructions; geologic raw materials and resources; provenance studies; geologic surveying, mapping, and remote sensing; and geologic aspects of construction, destruction, site preservation, and conservation. Rapp and Hill apply earth-science approaches in archaeological settings ranging from single occupation to multicomponent habitation. They describe solutions to such problems as artifact identification and description, the integrity of artifact sets, chronological context, paleo-landscape habitat, and human-environment interactions. Their well-illustrated book, complete with glossary, will appeal to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in archaeology and anthropology, including those with limited earth-science experience. "The authors have provided much new information and many useful insights. This book fills a niche not occupied by any other text or reference work". -- Robert S. Sternberg, Franklin & Marshall College "This uniquely integrated collection represents an original approach and important contribution to the field of geoarchaeology". -- SarahJ.

This book is an exploration and analysis of the electricity industry framed by a broader question: how do fundamental but complex institutions make long-term plans in a climate uncertainty? The book examines five well-known Australian, Canadian and New Zealand cases including the Gordon-below-Franklin Dam in Tasmania and Victoria's Loy Yang project, Ontario Hydro's nuclear expansion and BC Hydro's Peace River Site C project and the Clyde Dam in New Zealand. The book closely analyses the ways in which various agencies have sought ends to serve the means at their disposal. Economies of scale have meant that electricity has long been regarded as a natural monopoly, but questions of privatisation, regulation and government control are increasingly becoming prevalent. The book explores these issues as well as noting the experiences of other countries such as France, the UK and the USA in its analysis of institutional reform. The book presents a case in which the needs of private utilities, private consumers, industry, government and the environment rarely coincide. Aynsley Kellow argues for new approaches to electricity planning, which offer much by way of economic savings and minimisation of environmental problems such as global warming. His insightful book will be important to those working within electricity utilities as well as to economists, public administrators and environmentalists.