Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • Struggles and Triumphs
    P. T. Barnum
    Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It’s a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generation...
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    27,49 €

  • Green Landscape Architecture
    AIMO PARKER / CHLOE HALL / ELLA WATTS
    •The book covers a wide range of topics related to landscape architecture and its role in promoting ecological sustainability, community attachment, and environmental stewardship.•It explores the concept of therapeutic landscapes, which are designed to promote health and well-being through a natural weaving of culture, health, and land.•It presents a vision for restoring the de...
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    60,31 €

  • Harnessing AI in Geospatial Technology for Environmental Monitoring and Management
    Froilan D. Mobo
    The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with geospatial technologies is increasingly vital in addressing environmental challenges facing society today. As climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation intensify, AI-driven geospatial tools offer powerful solutions for monitoring ecosystems, predicting environmental changes, and managing natural resour...
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    426,11 €

  • Harnessing AI in Geospatial Technology for Environmental Monitoring and Management
    Froilan D. Mobo
    The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with geospatial technologies is increasingly vital in addressing environmental challenges facing society today. As climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation intensify, AI-driven geospatial tools offer powerful solutions for monitoring ecosystems, predicting environmental changes, and managing natural resour...
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    321,07 €

  • Digital ecologies
    In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics - for better and for worse - Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these transformations. ...
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    169,45 €

  • Digital ecologies
    In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics - for better and for worse - Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these transformations. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Rescaling Sustainability Transitions
    This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales....
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    75,22 €

  • Critical Perspectives into Flow Research
    Janet Banfield
    This book breaks down barriers between disciplines engaging with flow, by speaking from geography into psychology to establish geographical foundations for this psychological phenomenon. It frames and works with the multiple contradictions within the extant literature as productive rather than prohibitive, thereby encouraging collaboration across discrepancies as well as across...
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    180,48 €

  • Recent Trends in Geospatial AI
    Geospatial research is facing both enormous new potential and challenges due to artificial intelligence (AI). Theoretical advances, large data, computer hardware, and high-performance computing platforms that enable the creation, training, and deployment of AI models in a reasonable amount of time are the main drivers of its rapid development. There have been notable developmen...
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    360,59 €

  • Recent Trends in Geospatial AI
    Geospatial research is facing both enormous new potential and challenges due to artificial intelligence (AI). Theoretical advances, large data, computer hardware, and high-performance computing platforms that enable the creation, training, and deployment of AI models in a reasonable amount of time are the main drivers of its rapid development. There have been notable developmen...
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    275,14 €

  • Island connectivity
    Jonathan Americo
    The mangroves of the Cananéia-Iguape Lagoon System, at the southern end of the coast of the state of São Paulo, have the presence of the grass Spartina alterniflora on their outer fringes, which plays a fundamental role in fixing sediments that could become mangrove propagation areas. Pioneers in the flooded mangrove region, Spartina holds and prepares the substrate for the see...
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    60,39 €

  • Assessment of land degradation and ecosystem services
    Younoussa NOMA TALIBI
    For several decades now, the Sahel in general and Niger in particular have been experiencing extreme climatic variations. This situation, combined with strong human pressures, has led to a loss of vegetation cover, exposing soils to the effects of erosion, structural and structural degradation, and other factors. This results in the degradation of natural resources and a loss o...
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    73,14 €

  • Multifunctionality of the rural landscape
    Cenira M. Lupinacci / Darlene A. F.Oliveira / Vanessa Antunes de Souza
    The book presents the results of an undergraduate project whose general aim was to identify and characterise the landscapes and multifunctional potential of small farms in the rural district of Itapé - Rio Claro (SP). To this end, the theoretical framework was based on four analytical elements: rural landscape / multifunctionality / external elements of agriculture / endogenous...
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    60,39 €

  • National Spatial Planning in China
    Kai Wang
    This open access book conducts systematic and comprehensive research on urban spatial development problems in China from territorial perspectives, based on the scientific theory on human settlements environment. By integrating the theories of globalization, spatial planning, state intervention, and beyond, the author systematically sorts out both domestic and foreign urban spat...
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    78,03 €

  • Exploring Down Under
    Anna Marsh / Belinda Letchford / Michelle Morrow
    Australia is a land filled with great big things. There is the Great Barrier Reef, Great Artesian Basin, Great Dividing Range, Great Australian Bight, Great Victorian Desert, Great Sandy Desert, and the Great Ocean Road. Our mainland has the big rock-Uluru, the biggest salt lake, the biggest coal port, the biggest fence, and the biggest group of feral camels. We have even made ...
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    11,38 €

  • Political Geography in Practice
    This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. The book fills the current gap in the literature through a reflection on the ’doing’ of political geography: its very practice. The book includes chapters authored by leading and emerging voices i...
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    66,42 €

  • Energy Geographies
    The articles collected in this anthology address highly relevant issues of energy transition from both French and German perspectives. The question of energy production beyond fossil fuels entails lines of investigation ranging from attitudes to nuclear energy, through the development of renewables, to new hopes associated with hydrogen. The authors draw on their own recent emp...
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    131,68 €

  • Proceedings of 9IYGEC 2023, Volume 2
    This book presents peer reviewed papers from the proceedings of the 9th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers conference (9IYGEC), 21-22 March 2023, held at MIT Aurangabad. The topics covered are advanced ground improvement techniques, geosynthetics and its application, geotechnical site investigations and case studies, tunneling and underground structures, slope stability, shall...
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    391,71 €

  • Geographic information system for a development project
    Abdourahmane Daly Diallo
    The Agriculture FAmiliale Résilience et Marchés (AgriFARM) project is a Guinean government project, financed jointly by IFAD, OFID and BADEA. It has a Geographic Information System (GIS) integrated with the Monitoring & Evaluation System.As part of the project’s admissibility and visibility, AgriFARM aims to disseminate information based on the spatial dimension and the Interne...
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    83,66 €

  • Cities of Migration
    Asya Pisarevskaya / Peter Scholten
    This open access book develops a typology of cities by exploring how current levels of migration-related diversity and segregation relate to three groups of factors: international mobilities, inequalities and political-institutional aspects of local governance. Based on both quantitative and qualitative data from 16 cities in four European countries (France, Germany, The Nether...
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    75,98 €

  • Interpretive trail in a conservation unit
    Andréia M. Pancher / Ivy Panagassi
    With a view to contributing to environmental conservation, environmental education activities are carried out in Conservation Units. Interpretive trails are important tools for environmental education, as their potential attractions bring people closer to nature, as well as making it possible to learn, raise awareness and reflect on the value of the environment through interpre...
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    60,21 €

  • Jorge Amado’s ontological geography
    Natallye Lopes Santos Oliveira
    This work was constructed from a crossroads between Geography and Literature. In a research proposal of an epistemological nature, the author proposes a definition of man in a part of Jorge Amado’s work with an urban theme. Mar Morto (1936); Tenda dos Milagres (1969); Jubiabá (1935) and A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro D’Água (1959) were the works chosen. The works by Jorge A...
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    79,03 €

  • Learning ’from’ and ’with’ the Locals
    This book aims to capture the fading traditional knowledge systems of local and indigenous communities in the Himalayas. As many of these practices are at risk of disappearing, the book serves as a valuable record. It encourages readers to reflect on the implications of such knowledge for environmental sustainability today. Focusing on one of the most crucial mountain ranges gl...
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    208,85 €

  • The Geography of Iraq
    Human civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, where the first writing and the first technologies originated. Writing about Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization (the land between the rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, modern-day Iraq) is interesting for all interesting readers in the world. Iraq is one of the most beautiful, diverse, and impressive countries i...
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    287,47 €

  • Rainfall impacts in the urban area of Rio Claro - SP
    Leiliane Cristina Lopes
    Most Brazilian cities face various environmental problems related to the atmosphere, such as changes in temperature and increased rainfall. As a result, there are countless impacts related to heavy rainfall in cities, which causes various inconveniences to the population, including damage to street and avenue pavements, landslides and flooding. It is clear that more and more im...
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    42,60 €

  • Social and environmental vulnerability in the municipality of Natal/RN
    Marysol Dantas de Medeiros
    The city of Natal/RN has risk areas due to the occupation of spaces that have legal and/or physical-natural limitations, as well as a lack of urban organization, increasing the vulnerability of the population living there. The aim of the research was to map areas of social vulnerability and natural hazards in Natal, taking into account the interrelationships between social vuln...
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    78,96 €

  • Resistance and challenges in securing land ownership
    Nivalda Batista Santos
    This paper exposes the issue of quilombo land in the state of Sergipe and the struggle of the Mocambo community to have their territory regulated by the responsible authorities, through institutional procedures. It also represents an alternative for this population to strengthen itself in the face of the possibilities of intense change in the agrarian space. The research carrie...
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    67,60 €

  • Farming practices and techniques
    Joachim Bonkoungou
    The rural commune of Gbomblora, in the South-West region of Burkina Faso, relies on rainfed and off-season agriculture. Farmers face major constraints, particularly at the start of the rainy season. The aim of this document is to analyze the constraints encountered in relation to national and communal planning. The start of the season is spread out over time. The practices and ...
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    53,10 €

  • Tourism, local resources and human development
    Mohamed EL BAKKARI
    Rural tourism development encompasses the connotation of achieving an improvement in both the well-being of the community and of rural territories in general. It is preferable to plan strategies designed to enhance social, environmental and economic benefits. The starting point for this research is the observation that tourism development, as currently conceived and implemented...
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    52,90 €

  • A Place in Rio
    Marcio Luis Fernandes
    On this academic journey, intertwined with my place, I draw on my lived experience and, together with the members of my community, undertake this saga about our lived universe. This memorable place, inscribed in our hearts and minds, Ilha de Guaratiba, has been metamorphosed by the urbanization march that is taking place in its domains. I was born here. I saw the neighborhood w...
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    91,56 €


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