Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly 'westward-looking orientation' in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, ...
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    92,88 €

  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
    David Bole / Janez Nared
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental...
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    63,45 €

  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly 'westward-looking orientation' in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, ...
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    77,37 €

  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
    David Bole / Janez Nared
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental...
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    77,81 €

  • Deltas in the Anthropocene
    Craig W Hutton / Robert J Nicholls / Susan E Hanson
    The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major ...
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    86,47 €

  • Deltas in the Anthropocene
    Craig W Hutton / Robert J Nicholls / Susan E Hanson
    The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major ...
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    72,10 €

  • Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
    Giles Foody / Linda See / Peter Mooney
    Maps are a fundamental resource in a diverse array of applications ranging from everyday activities, such as route planning through the legal demarcation of space to scientific studies, such as those seeking to understand biodiversity and inform the design of nature reserves for species conservation. For a map to have value, it should provide an accurate and timely representati...
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    78,58 €

  • Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
    Giles Foody / Linda See / Peter Mooney
    Maps are a fundamental resource in a diverse array of applications ranging from everyday activities, such as route planning through the legal demarcation of space to scientific studies, such as those seeking to understand biodiversity and inform the design of nature reserves for species conservation. For a map to have value, it should provide an accurate and timely representati...
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    64,22 €

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
    Birgit Glorius / Jeroen Doomernik
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and th...
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    67,20 €

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
    Birgit Glorius / Jeroen Doomernik
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and th...
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    82,71 €

  • Mobilities of Knowledge
    Heike Jöns / Michael Heffernan / Peter Meusburger
    This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual appr...
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    72,10 €

  • Knowledge and Action
    Benno Werlen / Laura Suarsana / Peter Meusburger
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain...
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    83,93 €

  • Mobilities of Knowledge
    Heike Jöns / Michael Heffernan / Peter Meusburger
    This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual appr...
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    86,47 €

  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation
    Franziska Görmar / Thilo Lang
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underly...
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    77,68 €

  • The Places Where Community Is Practiced
    Anna Steigemann
    In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the con...
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    87,53 €

  • Knowledge and Action
    Benno Werlen / Laura Suarsana / Peter Meusburger
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain...
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    68,41 €

  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation
    Franziska Görmar / Thilo Lang
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underly...
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    93,18 €

  • Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
    Judith Ehlert / Nora Katharina Faltmann
    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further put...
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    73,09 €

  • Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
    Judith Ehlert / Nora Katharina Faltmann
    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further put...
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    87,45 €

  • The Places Where Community Is Practiced
    Anna Steigemann
    In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the con...
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    73,16 €

  • HYDRO-PLUVIOMETRIC VARIABILITY AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    Mèdessè T. Déo Gratias Goudomon / Mèdessè TDéo Gratias Goudomon
    This study aims to analyse the availability of water resources in the context of hydro-pluviometric variability in the Domè zou sub-basin.The rainfall and hydrometric data collected over the period 1965-2008 made it possible to analyse the impact of hydro-pluviometric variability on water resources. The results show the remarkable impact of the significant decrease in rainfall ...
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    40,91 €

  • Geography of marginalised spaces and hidden knowledge
    Carlitos Luís Sitoie
    The book unveils an inclusive geography of marginalized spaces and hidden knowledge from the perception of shadows in the village of Haqui (Mozambique) and the city of Macapá (Brazil). It is a geography that seeks to mean the daily life of the village of Haqui. In this village knowledge is shared and transmitted from generation to generation without being systematized in specia...
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    63,43 €

  • A VASATI VA LE KAYA
    Carlitos Luís Sitoie / Zacarias Alexandre Ombe
    The book was inspired by the story of the Rosinha Born above a tree. It portrays the relationship of women with trees and their various symbolisms.Rural women are in direct contact in their daily lives with the natural environment represented by trees, fields, crops, domestic animals, etc.; they also treat the environment with love that is characteristic of them, looking at det...
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    39,42 €

  • Realising the city
    Camilla Lewis
    This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance. ...
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    36,95 €

  • The Upper-Caste Community of Malakar
    Kousik Das Malakar
    This book investigates the Malakar community and their hereditary livelihoods. With the overlapping their caste system and religion, Occupation, Marriage System, and their transformation of the traditional handicrafts management system and the tendency of the future generation. And included a ground-based (ground zero) research, which is clearly explained their social class sys...
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    33,14 €

  • Boundary Songs
    David Banning
    Discover. Explore. Inspire. On the fringes of England’s largest national park, now a World Heritage Site, an alternative vision emerges. In late 2017, a walk around the boundary of the Lake District uncovers a hidden landscape consumed by ghosts of nostalgia. Roughly 160 miles where it’s never quite clear where the muddy paths and coastal ridges will lead. Stumbling upon indust...
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    11,02 €

  • Mapping Is Elementary, My Dear
    S. Kay Gandy / SKay Gandy
    The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms. ...
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    67,22 €

  • Mapping Is Elementary, My Dear
    S. Kay Gandy / SKay Gandy
    The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms. ...
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    33,98 €

  • Demography of New Zealand
    Kousik Das Malakar
    The book 'Demography of New Zealand' is comprehensive and easy to understand a text. This book began with the concept of Introduction to New Zealand, Basic Concepts of demography, demographics Methods, World demographic Profile, demographic Profiles of the Populated Countries in the World, the demography of New Zealand, Social demography of New Zealand, demographics of Auckland...
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    36,16 €

  • Environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Kousik Das Malakar
    This book is an outcome of present days pandemic Situation in the World. As a student of geography, I observed that the vulnerable situation and try to get a basic configuration of COVID-19 worldwide. The book, ’Environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A lesson for the future’ is comprehensive and easy to understand the text. This book discussed a general introduction of ...
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    91,42 €