Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación

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  • Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics
    Boualem Khouider
    This book is a survey of the research work done by the author over the last 15 years, in collaboration with various eminent mathematicians and climate scientists on the subject of tropical convection and convectively coupled waves. In the areas of climate modelling and climate change science, tropical dynamics and tropical rainfall are among the biggest uncertainties of future ...
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    160,95 €

  • Gun Control Policies in Latin America
    Diego Sanjurjo
    This book analyses the crucial role that guns play in the dynamics of extreme violence engulfing Latin America and the policies that are being implemented to confront it. Gun control is surprisingly not a prominent issue in most countries of the region, but this situation is rapidly changing as proliferation and violence dramatically increase. The book adopts an extended versio...
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    66,42 €

  • Problems of Geocosmos-2018
    This book includes the proceedings of the conference 'Problems of the Geocosmos' held by the Earth Physics Department, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, every two years since 1996. Covering a broad range of topics in solid Earth physics and solar-terrestrial physics, as well as more applied subjects such as engineering geology and ecology, the book reviews the latest res...
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    210,28 €

  • Pilauco
    This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and invertebrata, micropaleontology, archaeology, biochemistry, taxonomy, taphonomy, astrophysics  and the development of som...
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    124,19 €

  • Sediment Compaction and Applications in Petroleum Geoscience
    Soumyajit Mukherjee / Troyee Dasgupta
    This book discusses how sediments compact with depth and applications of the compaction trends. Porosity reduction in sediment conveniently indicates the degree of sediments compacted after deposition. Published empirical curves- the compaction curves- are depth-wise porosity variation through which change in pore spaces from sediment surface to deeper depths e.g. up to 6 km ca...
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    139,55 €

  • Real Option Analysis and Climate Change
    Benoit Morel
    This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it can be used to support environmental investments for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Climate change policy often involves making decisions that concern extended time periods, and doing so under considerable uncertainty. By expanding and broadening the framework of real options, this book first introdu...
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    99,00 €

  • Evaluation of Shale Source Rocks and Reservoirs
    Bodhisatwa Hazra / David A. Wood / Devleena Mani
    This book details the analytical processes, and interpretation of the resulting data, needed in order to achieve a comprehensive source-rock evaluation of organic-rich shales. The authors employ case studies on Permian and Cretaceous shales from various Indian basins and other petroleum-bearing basins around the world to illustrate the key features of their organic-rich shale c...
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    111,22 €

  • Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites
    Nikolay Maksimovich / Olga Meshcheriakova / Petar Milanović
    This book shares essential insights on evaporites and their effects on dams and reservoirs. The intensity of the solution and suffusion process in evaporites (gypsum and salt) is much greater than the solution of carbonates, and evaporites are particularly vulnerable at dam and reservoir sites.Moreover, the presence of evaporites in the vicinity of dams or reservoirs often lead...
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    141,37 €

  • New Localism
    Andrew Stables
    This book examines 'New Localism’ - exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the mo...
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    67,08 €

  • Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters
    Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters are three of the biggest problems facing Japan today. This book discusses how sustainable communities are being created in Japan in an attempt to overcome the threat of the triple Ds . It provides an overview of how each of these three core issues endangers the sustainability of local communities especially, but also discusses how...
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    161,23 €

  • Interreligious Engagement in Urban Spaces
    Julia Ipgrave
    This book examines interreligious dialogue from a European perspective. It features detailed case studies analysed from different disciplinary perspectives. These studies consider such activities as face-to-face discussion groups, public meetings, civic consultations with members of faith groups, and community action projects that bring together people from different faiths. Ov...
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    121,64 €

  • Assessment and Protection of Water Resources in the Czech Republic
    This book gathers technical and scientific contributions from leading researchers, academics, and lecturers, focusing on water management, water pollution and water structures in the Czech Republic. It discusses a variety of water resources management issues, from stormwater management in urban areas, water quantity, hydraulics structures and hydrodynamic modeling, to flood pro...
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    136,78 €

  • Fish Protection Technologies and Fish Ways for Downstream Migration
    Beate Adam / Ulrich Schwevers
    This book offers a comprehensive review of current systems for fish protection and downstream migration. It offers the first systematic description of the currently available technologies for fish protection at hydropower intakes, including accurate and timely data collected by the authors and other researchers. It describes how to design and test them in agreement with the gui...
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    123,99 €

  • Clean, Green and Responsible?
    New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges. This book takes a closer look behind and beyond the marketing mantras of both Australia’s and New Z...
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    136,18 €

  • Geotechnical Research for Land Protection and Development
    This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geotechnical engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 7th Italian National Congress of Geotechnical Researchers (CNRIG 2019), entitled 'Geotechnical Research for the Protection and Development of the Territory' (Lecco, Italy, July 3-5, 2019). The congress is inten...
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    266,73 €

  • Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure
    This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted ...
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    73,37 €

  • Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System
    This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability, from the incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum for alternative agrifood movements, particularly agroecology and sustainable intensification, with case studies from around the world. ...
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    72,88 €

  • Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa
    As countries are affected by changes to populations, environments, and economics they also experience changes in terms of health threats. Using the revised epidemiological and nutrition transition framework, this book explores the future challenges to health in Africa. Using case studies it interrogates the dual burden of communicable and non-co ...
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    73,03 €

  • Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem
    This book provides a review of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme research study, based on the ecosystem approach. ...
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    73,04 €

  • Regional Developmentalism through Law
    Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa
    This book presents the concept of regional developmentalism through law as the most suitable conceptual framework to support the establishment of an African Economic Community. It will be of value to students at an advanced level, academics, and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to the correlation between law, re ...
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    73,23 €

  • Young People, Rights and Place
    Stuart Aitken
    Concern is growing about children’s rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance. This book discusses children’s spatial and citizenship rights, and the ways young people and their families push against diminished rights.This book de-centers monadic ideas of children in favor of a post-humanist perspec ...
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    73,61 €

  • Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification
    Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
    This book reviews current SI approaches to the major food crops, advances made in technology, and the institutional and policy measures necessary to overcome the constraints faced by smallholder farmers. ...
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    72,83 €

  • Historical Animal Geographies
    Historical analysis is important to animal geographies, yet few works have yet attempted to represent this confluence in understanding the entangled lives of animals and humans. Foregrounding the assertion that geography matters as much as history in terms of how we relate to animals, this book offers unique insight into what life condition ...
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    73,34 €

  • Popular Geopolitics
    This book provides an archaeology of field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on an evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics with interrelated di ...
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    73,13 €

  • Geographies of Plague Pandemics
    Mark Welford
    Geographies of Plague Pandemics attempts to synthesis our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and ...
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    73,64 €

  • Spaces of Spirituality
    This book pushes the boundaries of geographies of religion to bring questions of spirituality into focus. By seeing religion through the lens of practice rather than as a set of beliefs, geographies of religion can be interpreted much more widely, bringing a whole range of other spiritual practices to light. This book explores the spirit of plac ...
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    72,88 €

  • Mining and Sustainable Development
    Sumit. K. Lodhia
    This book addresses the changing role of minerals in society and how mining can be made more sustainable. ...
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    73,12 €

  • An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism
    Caroline Gatt
    This account provides an anthropological study of global environmental activism, via an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation, Friends of the Earth International. Key to this global scope is the analysis of activists’ aspirations for and experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making. ...
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    73,10 €

  • Mega-Urbanization in the Global South
    With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial ’urban revolution’. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between ...
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    73,26 €

  • São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century
    Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
    This book analyzes in detail the main social, economic and special transformation of the city of São Paulo. In the last 30 years, São Paulo has become a more heterogeneous and less unequal city. Contrary to some expectations, the recent economic transformations did not produce social polarization, and the localized processes of spaces production (and the plural is increasingly ...
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    48,81 €