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

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  • Methods for Macrosociological Research
    Krishnan Namboodiri / N. Krishnan Namboodiri / NKrishnan Namboodiri
    Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary measures. This book provides the means to handle distributions and compositional data without forfeiting the information from which they derive. It features illustrations, a summary and bibliography. ...
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    314,20 €

  • Introduction to the Physics of Rocks
    Victor Palciauskas / Yves Gueguen
    Finding viable solutions to many of the problems threatening our environment hinges on understanding the rocks below the earth’s surface. For those evaluating the relative hazards of radioactive waste sites, investigating energy resources such as oil, gas, and hydrothermal energy, studying the behavior of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes, or charting the flow of g...
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    215,82 €

  • Geophysical Inverse Theory
    Robert L. Parker / Robert LParker
    In many physical sciences, the most natural description of a system is with a function of position or time. In principle, infinitely many numbers are needed to specify that function, but in practice only finitely many measurements can be made. Inverse theory concerns the mathematical techniques that enable researchers to use the available information to build a model of the unk...
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    169,72 €

  • Community of the Streets
    Cahill Spencer Cahill / Lynn HLofland / Spencer ECahill
    Volume 1 of Research in Community Sociology focuses on 'Community of the Streets'. ...
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    201,00 €

  • Marginalized Places and Populations
    David Wilson
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    121,52 €

  • The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
    J. R. Garratt / JRGarratt
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    98,44 €

  • Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle
    Stuart CAitken
    ’Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.’-Kenneth E. Foote, The University of Texas at Austin ...
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    81,92 €

  • Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma
    Harold C. Barnett / Harold CBarnett
    In 1980, with the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Congress created the Superfund as a mechanism to clean up the toxic legacy of the industrial and chemical revolutions. Over a decade later, the consensus is that the program has failed: too much has been spent and too little accomplished. Harold Barnett unravels the history o...
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    83,52 €

  • In the Society of Nature
    Descola Philippe / Nora Scott / Philippe Descola
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    169,22 €

  • Atmospheric Data Analysis
    Roger Daley
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    158,98 €

  • Bay Country (Revised)
    Tom Horton
    Originally published in hardback, this book about the Chesapeake is now available in paperback from Johns Hopkins. The author, Tom Horton, is a native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and has written about the environment for the past 15 years in the Baltimore Sun. His stories of oysters and sea nettle, elms and rivers, barrier islands and blue crabs, farmers and watermen, always r...
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    36,92 €

  • Communication and Relational Maintenance
    Addresses the question, 'How do people maintain their personal relationships?' This volume discusses the everyday processes used to maintain an on-going relationship. It looks at interpersonal communication, social-psychological factors relevant to maintenance, and the resolution of conflict. ...
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    220,03 €

  • Drought Follows the Plow
    Michael H. Glantz / Michael HGlantz
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    174,88 €

  • Drought Follows the Plow
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    69,25 €

  • Fossil Horses
    Bruce J. Macfadden / Bruce JMacfadden
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    110,04 €

  • Issues and Responses
    William Baird
    Land use planning presents a continuing challenge to national, regional and local authorities as choices must be made among the diverse demands placed on land resources by competing stakeholders. This volume provides an introduction to both rural and urban land use planning with particular attention to the environmental impacts of land use practices. The technical discussion is...
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    67,04 €

  • Spanish/English Dictionary of Human and Physical Geography
    Rafael Espejo-Saavedra / Steven L. Driever / Steven LDriever
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    103,65 €

  • A History of the Earth
    John J. W. Rogers / John JWRogers / Rogers John J. W. / Rogers John JW.
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    36,20 €

  • The Asian Elephant
    R. Sukumar / RSukumar
    This book provides an ecological analysis of elephant-human interaction and its implications for the conservation of elephants, based mainly on a study carried out in southern India. It begins with an historical perspective of the decline of elephants and summarizes their current status and major conservation issues. It then describes the interrelationship between seasonal move...
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    81,74 €

  • Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
    Dave Foreman
    A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for years to come, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is an inspiring ecological call to arms by America’s foremost and most controversial environmental activist. 'Rude and brilliant. Read it and you will see the future'.--William Kittredge. ...
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    14,04 €

  • Seasonality and Human Ecology
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    206,66 €

  • Method in Ecology
    E. D. McCoy / EDMcCoy / K. S. Shrader-Frechette / Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette / Kristin SShrader-Frechette / KSShrader-Frechette
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    238,30 €

  • In the Spirit of the Earth
    Calvin Luther Martin
    A meditation by an award-winning historian calls for a new way of looking at the natural world and our place in it while boldly challenging the assumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history and time. 'In the Spirit of the Earth' is a provocative account of how the hunter-gatherer image of nature was lost with devastating consequences for the environmen...
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    42,44 €

  • Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America
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    123,32 €

  • Ecology in Education
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    168,77 €

  • Ultimate Security
    Norman Myers
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    18,97 €

  • Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences
    Robert Haining
    Within both the social and environmental sciences, much of the data collected is within a spatial context and requires statistical analysis for interpretation. The purpose of this book is to describe current methods for the analysis of spatial data. Methods described include data description, map interpolation, and exploratory and explanatory analyses. The book also examines sp...
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    80,66 €

  • Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants
    Gary Haynes
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    79,45 €

  • The Trophic Cascade in Lakes
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    218,13 €

  • Community in Transition
    Abraham Yogev / Eliezer Ben-Rafael / Hanna Ayalon
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    121,82 €