Vida do veneravel padre Belchior de Pontes, da Companhia de Jesus da provincia do Brasil.

"Um hagiographo luso-brasileiro obscuro" (2d-6th prelim. leaves) signed: Affonso de E. Taunay.

Corographia historica, chronographica, genealogica, nobiliaria, e politica do imperio do Brasil ...

Vol. 1, pt. 2, and v.3-4 have imprint: Rio de Janeiro, Typ. brasileira, edictor J.J. do Patrocinio, 1859-63 [v. 1, pt. 2, '63]

Précis historiques.

Includes writings by Father Peirre Jean de Smet.

The Encyclopaedia of missions : descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical : with a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible versions, missionary societies, mission stations, and a general index / edited by Edwin Munsell Bliss.

http://www.archive.org/details/encyclopaediamis02unknuoft

Perceptual maps analysis for organic food consumers in China: a study on Shanghai consumers

Although in Europe and in the USA many studies focus on organic, little is known on the topic in China. This research provides an insight on Shanghai consumers’ perception of organic, aiming at understanding and representing in graphic form the network of mental associations that stems from the organic concept. To acquire, process and aggregate the individual networks it was used the “Brand concept mapping” methodology (Roedder et al., 2006), while the data analysis was carried out also using analytic procedures. The results achieved suggest that organic food is perceived as healthy, safe and costly. Although these attributes are pretty much consistent with the European perception, some relevant differences emerged. First, organic is not necessarily synonymous with natural product in China, also due to a poor translation of the term in the Chinese language that conveys the idea of a manufactured product. Secondly, the organic label has to deal with the competition with the green food label in terms of image and positioning on the market, since they are easily associated and often confused. “Environmental protection” also emerged as relevant association, while the ethical and social values were not mentioned. In conclusion, health care and security concerns are the factors that influence most the food consumption in China (many people are so concerned about food safety that they found it difficult to shop), and the associations “Safe”, “Pure and natural”, “without chemicals” and “healthy” have been identified as the best candidates for leveraging a sound image of organic food .

Landscape mosaics maps as a basis for spatial assessment and negotiation of ecosystem services and their trade-offs at the meso-scale: Examples from Laos, Madagascar and China

Mapping ecosystem services (ES) and their trade-offs is a key requirement for informed decision making for land use planning and management of natural resources that aim to move towards increasing the sustainability of landscapes. The negotiations of the purposes of landscapes and the services they should provide are difficult as there is an increasing number of stakeholders active at different levels with a variety of interests present on one particular landscape.Traditionally, land cover data is at the basis for mapping and spatial monitoring of ecosystem services. In light of complex landscapes it is however questionable whether land cover per se and as a spatial base unit is suitable for monitoring and management at the meso-scale. Often the characteristics of a landscape are defined by prevalence, composition and specific spatial and temporal patterns of different land cover types. The spatial delineation of shifting cultivation agriculture represents a prominent example of a land use system with its different land use intensities that requires alternative methodologies that go beyond the common remote sensing approaches of pixel-based land cover analysis due to the spatial and temporal dynamics of rotating cultivated and fallow fields.Against this background we advocate that adopting a landscape perspective to spatial planning and decision making offers new space for negotiation and collaboration, taking into account the needs of local resource users, and of the global community. For this purpose we introduce landscape mosaicsdefined as new spatial unit describing generalized land use types. Landscape mosaics have allowed us to chart different land use systems and land use intensities and permitted us to delineate changes in these land use systems based on changes of external claims on these landscapes. The underlying idea behindthe landscape mosaics is to use land cover data typically derived from remote sensing data and to analyse and classify spatial patterns of this land cover data using a moving window approach. We developed the landscape mosaics approach in tropical, forest dominated landscapesparticularly shifting cultivation areas and present examples ofour work from northern Laos, eastern Madagascarand Yunnan Province in China.

Beijing, China, 1900 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pékin. It was published by A. Nachbaur in 1900. Scale 1:25,000. Covers Beijing, China. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 50N, meters, WGS 1984) projected. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, railroads and stations, drainage, selected buildings, temples, pagodas, mosques, missions, French official buildings, state buildings, tourist locations, ground cover, parks, and more.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

The life and opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., missionary to China, illustrated by biographical annals of Asiatic missions from primitive to Protestant times. Intended as a guide to missionary spirit.

Mode of access: Internet.

A Retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China : (now, in connection with the Malay, denominated the ultra-Ganges missions) accompanied with miscellaneous remarks on the literature, history, and mythology of China &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life and opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., missionary to China : illustrated by biographical annals of Asiatic missions from primitive to Protestant times, intended as a guide to missionary spirit /

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of modern missions : containing historical and statistical accounts of the protestant missionary societies of America, Great Britain and the continent of Europe, also numerous maps and diagrams.

Includes index.

An historical and descriptive account of China; its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, government, industry, manners, and social state; intercourse with Europe from the earliest ages; missions and embassies to the imperial court; British and foreign commerce; directions to navigators; state of mathematics and astronomy; survey of its geography, geology, botany, and zoology.

Added t.p., illustrated.

The encyclopædia of missions. Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. With a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, an lists of Bible versions ...

"A bibliography of foreign missions ... down to the close of 1890. Compiled by the Rev. Samuel Macauley Jackson ... assisted by the Rev. George William Gilmore": v. 1, p. 575-661.