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

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Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación
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  • 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 €

  • The Globalization of American Infrastructure
    Matthew Heins
    The domestic transportation system of the United States has been 'globalized' over the past few decades by the growing presence of the shipping container, and by the changes necessary to accommodate that object. This volume chronicles this process through a detailed and theoretically informed account of the impact of the shipping container on th ...
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    73,32 €

  • Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan
    This book explores Japan-in-transition from internationalization to globalization from the perspectives of language and identity. The chapters address how national identity has faced the shift from hard to soft power, offer critical analyses of multilingual practices, and investigate what teaching, learning and using Japanese mean in the context ...
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    82,86 €

  • Transnational Agency and Migration
    Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants connect social worlds across national boundaries through a variety of soci ...
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    73,09 €

  • Grand Theater Urbanism
    Charlie Qiuli Xue
    This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora. Each grand theater design was the result of a high-profile international competition and created by global architects in collaboration with Chinese design institutes. The national and internationa...
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    173,23 €

  • Evolution and Water Resources Utilization of the Yangtze River
    Jin Chen
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management. From the perspectives of geology, hydrology, zoology, ecology, it discusses the Yangtze River’s geological history and aquatic environments, analyses the endangered species along the river basin, and reviews the effects of human hydrolytic activities on it...
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    136,98 €

  • Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism
    Bagoes Wiryomartono
    This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability. Urban livability is explored as a phenomenon of happenings that gather people, things, and domains in the specific spatiotemporal co...
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    72,38 €

  • The Geographies of International Student Mobility
    Suzanne E. Beech / Suzanne EBeech
    This book offers critical insights into the geographies of the international student higher education experience from initial recruitment, through to the plethora of personal factors which influence their decisions to become mobile and experiences when abroad. From the student perspective these include, but are not limited to, the importance of social networks, desire for a mul...
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    66,32 €

  • City Water Matters
    Sophie Watson
    Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision. Each chapter aims to capture one element of water’s fluid existence in the world, as material object, cultural representation, as m...
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    54,29 €

  • Climate Change and Future Rice Production in India
    K. Palanisami / KPalanisami / Krishna Reddy Kakumanu / Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
    This book explains in depth the issues and challenges faced by rice farmers in India in relation to production and productivity, and the possible adaptation strategies to climate change. Based on five years of groundbreaking research on emerging trends in cultivation in major rice growing regions in India, it begins by describing production and yield trends across different ric...
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    136,19 €

  • Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization
    This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts, it covers a wide range of topics related to geographical marginality from various angles, on both regional and l...
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    208,38 €

  • New Urban Agenda in Asia-Pacific
    This book explores significant aspects of the New Urban Agenda in the Asia-Pacific region, and presents, from different contexts and perspectives, innovative interventions afoot for transforming the governance of 21st-century cities in two key areas: (i) urban planning and policy; and (ii) service delivery and social inclusion. Representing institutions across a wide geography,...
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    124,35 €

  • Sustainable Waste Management
    Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
    The book presents high-quality research papers from the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2017), held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15-17, 2017. The conference, an official side event of the high-level Intergovernmental Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific, aimed to generate ...
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    346,86 €

  • Sustainable Agriculture, Forest and Environmental Management
    The recent technologies for sustainable development and maintaining ecological integrity in the field of agriculture, forestry and environmental management for the green future.Describes the recent technologies and issues to generate awareness among the global scientific community towards sustainable development.Covers various eco-friendly approaches for successful management o...
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    272,63 €

  • Loess Landform Inheritance
    Guo-An Tang / Li-Yang Xiong
    In geomorphology, landform inheritance refers to the inherited relationship of different landform morphologies in a certain area during the evolutionary process. This book studies loess landform inheritance based on national basic geographic data and GIS spatial analysis method. It reveals the Loess Plateau formation mechanism and broadens the understanding of spatial variation...
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    136,06 €

  • The Geographies of Digital Sexuality
    This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices. Modern life is increasingly characterised by our integrated engagement in digital/material landscapes activities and our intimate life online can no longer be conceptualised a...
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    121,56 €

  • Comprehensive Practice of Exploration and Evaluation Techniques in Complex Reservoirs
    Leyuan Fan / Weikang Gu / Xiaodong Cheng
    This book covers exploration and evaluation practices for various types of complex reservoirs, and summarizes a series of practical and effective techniques and methods.For example, it shows how, by integrating multiple types of new logging technology, complex reservoir petrophysics evaluation can be performed using high-precision core experiment data and quantitative logging i...
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    136,64 €

  • Wheat Production in Changing Environments
    This book presents recent advances in global wheat crop research, including the effects of abiotic stresses like high and low temperatures, drought, hypoxia, salinity, heavy metals, nutrient deficiency, and toxicity on wheat production. It also highlights various approaches to alleviate the damaging effects of abiotic stress on wheat as well as advanced approaches to develop ab...
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    211,43 €

  • Studies on China’s High-Speed Rail New Town Planning and Development
    Hao Gu / Lan Wang
    This book focuses on high-speed rail (HSR) and new town planning and development related to HSR, approaching the issue from three different perspectives: economic cooperation at a regional level; HSR-based economic growth point at a city level; and mixed land use and building environment in the periphery area of HSR stations. On the basis of simulations and case studies, it pro...
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    245,87 €

  • Essential Oil Research
    Sonia Malik
    This book highlights the advances in essential oil research, from the plant physiology perspective to large-scale production, including bioanalytical methods and industrial applications. The book is divided into 4 sections. The first one is focused on essential oil composition and why plants produce these compounds that have been used by humans since ancient times. Part 2 prese...
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    222,92 €

  • Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation
    Robert L. Zimdahl / Robert LZimdahl
    I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to. I hope for an exchange of ideas about agriculture’s moral dilemmas. I encourage my readers to engage in a collective conversation about the dilemmas and avoid remaining in what Merton calls 'the collect...
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    245,23 €

  • The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty
    Robert Hunter
    “The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty” is a lecture delivered by Sir Robert Hunter at the University of Manchester in 1907. Sir Robert Hunter KCB (1844–1913) was a civil servant and solicitor who co-founded the National Trust. He campaigned for the conservation of public open spaces, working with other notable advocates including and Hardwicke Rawnsley and Octavia H...
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    21,17 €

  • Open Spaces
    Octavia Hill
    Octavia Hill (1838–1912) was an English social reformer who concentrated on the welfare of city dwellers. Hill was a co-founder of the National Trust, as well as the Charity Organisation Society (now known as Family Action), which pioneered the home-visiting service that provided the basis for modern social work in the U. K. One of her main beliefs was that urban workers should...
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    18,87 €

  • Impact of Farmland Abandonment on Water Resources and Soil Conservation
    Farmland abandonment is one of the major land use changes occurring in many rural territories, especially in mountainous regions. Without intervention (passive land management), farmland abandonment leads to an expansion of shrubs and forest on formerly cultivated hillslopes and grazing areas. All these land use changes affect the hydrological and geomorphological dynamics of s...
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    50,91 €

  • Decarbonising the Built Environment
    This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change program and its f...
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    75,77 €

  • 2017 Press Conference Records of Ministry of Environmental Protection, the People’s Republic of China
    Min. of Environmental Protection of PRC / Minof Environmental Protection of PRC
    This book introduces readers to the press release work carried out by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2017. The routine press release work in 2017 was first launched by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). In 2017, 12 directors of the MEP and three directors of the Environmental Protection Department of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Tribune came together ...
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    136,34 €

  • Thermal Ice Drilling Technology
    Pavel G. Talalay / Pavel GTalalay
    This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice. In recent years, interest in thermal drilling technology has increased as a result of subglacial lake explorations and extraterrestrial investigation...
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    144,56 €

  • Green Web-II
    Medani P. Bhandari / Medani PBhandari
    This second edition of the book, 'Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN Program / Policy Development in Environment Conservation Domain- with reference to India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh' investigates the IUCN’s role in global biodiversity conservation policy as well as in national program development in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It explores...
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    175,75 €

  • Mineral Physics-In Memory of Orson Anderson
    Robert Cooper Liebermann
    This Special Issue contains original scientific papers in the field of mineral physics (and also rock physics). These papers are grouped into four categories: Reviews, Experimental Science, Theoretical Science and Technological Developments. These papers include those from first authors covering 5 generations of mineral physicists, including contemporaries of Orson [e.g., Willi...
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    139,28 €


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