Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • GIS and Spatial Analysis
    The objective of spatial analysis techniques is to describe the patterns existing in spatial data and to establish, preferably quantitatively, the relationships between different geographic variables. The notion of spatial analysis in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment encompasses the idea of integrating spatial data and alphanumeric attributes and translating i...
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    159,45 €

  • Tourism development in Bamako
    Moussa dit Martin Tessougué
    Bamako attracts around 60% of the 206,677 visitors to Mali every year, thanks to the country’s most modern urban infrastructure. Our research methods have enabled us to identify the various problems facing tourism in the Malian capital. To overcome these various problems inherent to tourism in the District of Bamako, we suggest the return of security on a national level. On a r...
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    132,51 €

  • Analysis and Reflections on the Teaching of Physical Geography
    Vanda Maria A. dos Santos
    This book is the result of a Master’s dissertation in Physical Geography, in the exercise of teaching, where the craft of teaching Geography requires devices to arouse the curiosity of students, which should be directed and open to different looks, reflecting their reality in a balanced way. The book is easy to understand and focuses on the teaching of Geography, Textbook Analy...
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    77,50 €

  • Karite butter
    Gbamain Eric Gogoua
    Natiokobadara is an area of high shea butter production in the town of Korhogo in northern Côte d’Ivoire. Shea butter production is a successful socio-economic model for the women of Natiokobadara. This activity has become a source of income for them, enabling some to contribute to the family budget. However, this locality presents a complex spatial framework due to the problem...
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    54,90 €

  • Rainfall patterns and environmental vulnerabilities in Central Africa
    Bertrand Doukpolo
    The north-western part of the Central African Republic, located between 3°45’ and 8°35’ N, experienced high rainfall variability from the 1960s to the 1990s. To study these fluctuations and identify trends, a time series at various time steps between 1951 and 2000 was subjected to statistical tests to detect stationarity breaks. The spatio-temporal variability of the parameter ...
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    55,35 €

  • Classical topography, geotechnologies and land applications
    Victor Fernando Herrera Gonzalez
    This work is a summary of essential contents related to geosciences, and in particular to techniques, sciences and disciplines such as: topography, geodesy and cartography, respectively, aimed at the representation of different portions of our territory; resorting to the use of geotechnologies and equipment associated with geomatics principles and their applications in some are...
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    85,80 €

  • (Re)organizing Imperatriz-MA’s urban space
    Allison B. Oliveira / Amanda Araujo Nascimento
    The main objective of this book is to document and discuss, in the light of the geographic science, the transformations in the urban space in the municipality of Imperatriz - MA that occurred in the period 2008-2017, triggered by the implementation of the Suzano Papel & Celulose S/A plant. It was verified from secondary data such as IBGE, RAIS, interviews, cartographic producti...
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    54,97 €

  • Therapeutic itineraries in Brazzaville
    Ferdinand Ndzani
    This book analyses the therapeutic itineraries in Brazzaville. These are not independent of the dysfunction of the Congolese health system and the spatial and demographic evolution of the city. After reviewing the main concepts used in population health (Chapter 1), the general health indicators in the Congo will be reviewed (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 presents the organisation of h...
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    43,27 €

  • Leaving the field
    Through accounts of ethnographers’ various exits from the field, this book draws attention to an overlooked but essential part of the research process, and contributes to more general discussions of ethnography. ...
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    169,56 €

  • The invasion of plastic bags
    Abdoulaziz Boubacar Barazé
    The use of plastic bags has evolved exponentially over the last two (2) decades. The sachet has become the most widely used form of packaging in Niger because of its low price and practicality. It has replaced several other types of packaging, in particular paper packaging and household baskets made from vegetable matter. Plastic bags are generally single-use and have a very sh...
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    93,30 €

  • Hydrological risk analysis in three Douala districts
    Casimir Pascal Kamgho Kamsu
    During the rainy season, many neighborhoods in the city of Douala are affected by flooding and rising capillarity. Poor neighborhoods such as Nkolmintag, Nylon and Tergal are among the worst affected. These life-threatening phenomena are inherent to the characteristics of the physical environment. In other words, flooding and rising capillarity tend to develop dangerously in th...
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    93,50 €

  • Border images, border narratives
    This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings. ...
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    35,56 €

  • The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate
    G. Le Strange
    This 2023 edition of The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur by G. Le Strange is a digitally scanned facsimile of the 1930 edition published by Cambridge University Press. ...
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    49,80 €

  • The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate
    G. Le Strange
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    71,49 €

  • The Geography of Informal Work in São Paulo’s Historic Centre
    Vitor Xavier Neto
    This book seeks to carry out a systematic study on the spatiality of informal workers, their unhealthy conditions, deprived of labour rights. These workers struggle daily for a living without any initiative from the public authorities to help them. The ultra-precarious conditions of informal work presented in this book is a reflection of neo-liberal policies within the context ...
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    77,75 €

  • Agricultural production practices in the face of climate change
    Dominique Joël Cora Yallou
    In the context of today’s unequivocal climate change, we may well ask ourselves what the origins of climate change are, and what the consequences are for people and their activities. In Benin, in the 2KP region, the heavy dependence of the majority of the population on climate-dependent agricultural and pastoral activities justifies all the attention paid by researchers to unde...
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    56,21 €

  • Coastal Erosion and Impacts
    Mamadou Barry
    The coastal zone of the Commune of Kafountine is at risk of marine erosion as a result of climate change combined with anthropogenic pressure. The aim of this study is to analyze coastal erosion and its impacts. The methodology is based on a diachronic analysis of coastline evolution using a series of four Landsat satellite images (1979, 1986, 2000 and 2015) and field data. Bet...
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    88,39 €

  • The Chtouka West coastline
    M’hamed Nmiss
    With its southern latitudinal position of 30N°, the Chtouka Ouest coastline is an extremely fragile arid to semi-arid environment. Along a 33 km stretch of coastline between the estuary of the Oued Souss and the mouth of the Oued Massa, the Chtouki coastal landscape is marked by significant morphological diversity, with varied geomorphological forms and formations. The western ...
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    88,40 €

  • ICT in Geography lessons
    Letícia Carvalho Belchior Fernandes
    ICT in Geography classes This book aims to present a research conducted in a technical school of Minas Gerais, about how students see the use of Digital Technologies of Information and Communication in the classroom by teachers. Given the relevance of the use of ICT by students in the current generation, I tried to indicate some software and its application for education, in an...
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    76,19 €

  • Poverty and socio-spatial inequalities in small towns
    Elicardo Heber de Almeida Batista
    This paper will deal with poverty and socio-social inequalities in small towns. There is a considerable literature dealing with the phenomenon of poverty and its various expressions. Studies focusing on general aspects or on local realities are present, especially in Sociology and Economics. These two fields of scientific knowledge include a branch called 'sociology of poverty ...
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    84,43 €

  • The migrations of early culture; A study of the significance of the geographical distribution of the practice of mummification as evidence of the migrations of peoples and the spread of certain custom
    Grafton Elliot Smith
    The migrations of early culture; A study of the significance of the geographical distribution of the practice of mummification as evidence of the migrations of peoples and the spread of certain customs and beliefs by Grafton Elliot Smith has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to en...
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    22,28 €

  • Prevalence of respiratory diseases
    Yaha Clemence Kakou
    Air is a vital element. Today, it is the cause of death in megacities. Most of the world’s major cities are home to a large number of industries and dense road traffic, whose gaseous emissions have a negative impact on air quality (Halek et al. 2010; Tan et al. 2011). Many gaseous substances and respirable particulate materials are frequently released into the air from fixed or...
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    54,90 €

  • Rural businesses and the urban-rural relationship
    Betânia Souza / Onildo Silva / Roberta Araújo
    When researching the data of companies registered at FIEB in the municipalities of the Territory of Sisal, in order to measure the development of rural companies in the territory of sisal and the urban-rural relations, a reverse process is actually perceived in the small town. This process is due to the fact that the registered rural enterprises are important for the dynamizati...
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    54,97 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change in the Northwest of Côte d’Ivoire
    Béh Ibrahim Diomandé
    The northwest of Côte d’Ivoire is a savannah entity rich in physical, human and economic components. It has a rich and varied biodiversity and a fairly dense hydrographic network. The soils are everywhere favorable to agricultural activity. This region has a mostly young, dynamic and diversified population. The economic activities are certainly varied, but they are dominated by...
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    129,89 €

  • URBAN DYNAMICS AND ACCESS TO HOUSING IN BOUAKE
    N’Guessan Arsène Kouadio
    Urbanization has become an inescapable phenomenon in recent decades in Côte d’Ivoire. According to the INS (2014, p.45), the urbanization rate in Côte d’Ivoire rose from 32.1% in 1975 to 45.3% in 1998, then to 50.3% in 2014. According to estimates, this rate will be 57% in 2018 (BNETD. 2015, p.7). This urbanization requires planning and a range of actions to be carried out in o...
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    128,52 €

  • Agriculture and Sustainable Development in Africa
    Cheikh Tidiane Cisse
    In Agriculture et Développement Durable dans la zone des Niayes, Cheikh CISSE shows how the drought of the 1970s prompted most Sahelian countries, like Senegal, to turn to urban agriculture. Urban agriculture plays a key role, accounting for 30% of national production in Senegal in 2005. The author also shows the importance of market gardening, which responds to the problem of ...
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    54,90 €

  • Climate change and changes in agricultural practices in Bam
    Florent Boena
    The effects of climate change are noticeable in Burkina Faso in the agricultural sector. In Bam province, these climatic changes are having an impact on production systems and, consequently, are leading to changes in farming practices. This book presents the relationship between climate change and changes in agricultural practices. The analysis of meteorological data shows that...
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    92,12 €

  • GIS and management of land developments in Libreville and its surroundings
    Alban Borice Ndong Obiang
    In Gabon, talking about land has become a taboo subject, because there are a number of inconsistencies in the allocation of plots. Thus, to overcome certain shortcomings, geographic information systems (GIS) appear to be one of the solutions to this management, which is considered 'fraudulent' and 'partisan' by a large part of the population. GIS thus appears to be a decision-m...
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    55,22 €

  • Application of Sig Web in Geography classes
    Debora Rodrigues Monteiro Teixeira
    This book deals with the use of Geotechnologies, especially GIS Web. It was conceived as a pedagogical proposal to awaken the interest of students for Geography, as well as to use technological tools for a satisfactory learning. When inserting the geotechnologies in the student’s life, it is searched that the same one awakes for the importance of studying Geography, as well as ...
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    55,22 €

  • Master Plan of Contagem MG
    Thiago Diniz Faria Coelho
    The present study aimed to study the urban green areas of the municipality of Contagem in the period from 1999 to 2015, with the aid of the tools of remote sensing and geoprocessing. It was used the Landsat 7 images from the year 1999 and Landsat 8 from 2015, which were acquired for free from the United States Geological Service (USGS). One of the specific focuses of the work w...
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    55,04 €


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