Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • From the dream of freedom to migration for capital
    Messias Alessandro Cardoso
    This work, which looks like a book in Geography, attempts to reveal the actions and strategies of sugarcane agribusiness, from the perspective of migrant labor in the sugarcane fields, with the aim of understanding the relations of labor exploitation, taking the specific contradictions of what is happening in the municipality of Gastão Vidigal - SP as a territorial basis. This ...
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    61,55 €

  • Occupancy dynamics and urban heat islands in Porto-Novo
    Lucrèce Funmilayo FALOLOU
    Demographic growth in urban areas is not without consequences for natural resources in Benin, creating a number of environmental problems, including the phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHI). This research aims to analyze the influence of green spaces and built density on the number and intensity of heat islands in the city of Porto-Novo and its surroundings. The methodology c...
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    104,31 €

  • Building Resilience for Flood Disaster in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia
    Apolonia Diana Sherly da Costa
    This book provides a new and different perspective on human geography as an umbrella understanding of the social science of disaster management, but it is simple to understand, where disaster-affected communities anywhere, for example in this study in disaster communities in Malacca-Timor, eastern Indonesia (female/customary land) can respond to flood disasters with the resilie...
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    261,36 €

  • Ecolimits in Rio de Janeiro
    Ana Brasil Machado
    The management of extensive urban growth has historically been the subject of numerous government interventions that have been translated into urban policy instruments. In some cases, these instruments have taken the form of physical boundaries, reinforcing or creating differentiations inside and outside the city. Throughout the 2000s, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the notion ...
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    61,48 €

  • New Destinations of Empire
    Emily Mitchell-Eaton
    In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of 'visa-free' migration to the United States for Marshalle...
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    172,78 €

  • New Destinations of Empire
    Emily Mitchell-Eaton
    In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of 'visa-free' migration to the United States for Marshalle...
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    33,51 €

  • Geoinformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth and Allied Sciences
    This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of GIS and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Geoinformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEA), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 7-9 2023. The contributions cover a diverse ra...
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    261,31 €

  • We Are Not Users
    Eswaran Subrahmanian / Sruthi Krishnan / Yoram Reich
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    34,23 €

  • Advocating African Spiritual Practices for Climate Change
    Apav Bernard Myom / Nicodemus Ukanaaka
    This study investigates the role of media advocacy in promoting African spiritual practices as a means of addressing climate change. It examines how traditional roots and cultural beliefs can contribute to building resilience in the face of environmental challenges. By advocating for the recognition and preservation of these practices, this study aims to showcase their importan...
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    73,14 €

  • Haitian Migration to Southwest Acre
    Anne Caroline Lima da Silva Santos
    Migration is a complex social phenomenon. It is therefore important to study the Haitian migratory movement to Brazil, which since 2010 has used the territory of Acre as a gateway to the rest of the country. The Haitian migratory flow to Brazil is something new. So let’s understand why Haitians chose the illegal route to enter Brazil and why they chose Acre as their route. It i...
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    48,42 €

  • Challenges and issues of urban development in Moroccan cities
    ABDELALI FATEH
    Sustainable urban planning is crucial for modern cities, as it aims to balance economic development, environmental preservation and the well-being of citizens. To achieve this ambitious goal, three fundamental pillars must be carefully considered: education, heritage and architectural diversity. Education in sustainable urban planning is essential to raise awareness of environm...
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    86,03 €

  • Socio-environmental Analysis with an Emphasis on Water Resources
    Guilherme Mapa / Matheus Nascimento
    When I walked along the trails of Granja Werneck, now approaching the Solimões neighborhood, we imagined, as innocent children, walking through a forest full of Tucanos, Tiús, Micos and beautiful flora. The urbanization process evolved over more than 20 years and some of the fauna sought refuge wherever there was the slightest possibility of survival. We wanted to do something ...
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    48,42 €

  • The quality of Brazilian highways
    Elisab... Regina Alves Cavalcanti Silva / Elisabeth Regina Alves Cavalcanti Silva / Mariana Pessôa Coelho / Samuel da Silva Moraes
    Brazil, a country with a large territorial extension, has the main road for transporting its production. Based on a comparative study of countries with similar economic and geographical situations to Brazil, the aim of this book is to address some points of the utmost importance in the search for alternatives to the problems encountered on Brazil’s federal highways. In view of ...
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    48,30 €

  • Artificial Intelligence-Driven Geographies
    Huhua Cao / Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghaddam
    This groundbreaking book delves deep into the history of AI, the major techniques and algorithms of machine learning and deep learning, and the critical role of data sources and processing in these disciplines. It covers a range of AI applications in human geography, including population distribution, land use, environmental risk assessment, and socioeconomic analysis. In urban...
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    261,53 €

  • Assessment of water erosion using the aggregation method
    Abdoul-Azize SAMPEBGO / Joachim Bonkoungou
    Climate hazards refer to 'extreme phenomena and physical trends associated with climate or their physical impacts'. They are seen as an external climatic signal with significant impacts on human life, and more specifically on soil degradation. The document 'Evaluation of water erosion by the aggregation method', takes stock of water erosion study techniques and proposes a new q...
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    54,12 €

  • Spatial-Temporal Analysis Water Quality Framework
    João B. P. Cabral / Pollyanna Faria Nogueira
    Realising the attraction I had for teaching and the need for further training, I took a master’s degree in Geography at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG/CAJ), in the area of Environmental Analysis, with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). This work is a complement to my master’s thesis. ...
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    49,51 €

  • Characterization of mangrove forests in the estuary of the Jaboatão River in the state of Pernambuco
    Elisabeth Regina Alves Cavalca... Silva / Elisabeth Regina Alves Cavalcanti Silva / José Gustavo da Silva Melo / Mariana Pessôa Coelho
    The mangrove is a tropical coastal ecosystem that colonizes sedimentary deposits formed by muddy, clayey or sandy vessels, occupying the intertidal region up to the upper limit of the equinoctial high tides. It has a discontinuous distribution along the Brazilian coast, from Amapá to Santa Catarina, and can present a continuum of distinct features depending on the profile of th...
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    49,45 €

  • Urban solid waste
    Paulo Jean Pereira Alves
    The publication of this book is yet another result of my first work with Urban Solid Waste. It is the fruit of a Course Conclusion Work in Geography at the State University of Goiás - Pires do Rio Campus. In the city of Pires do Rio -GO, we see serious environmental problems resulting from a lack of urban planning and management. The huge increase in consumption generates enorm...
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    49,45 €

  • Glossary of Mapping, Charting, and Geodetic Terms
    Defense Mapping Agency / Department of Defense
    Published in 1981, the Fourth Edition of Glossary of Mapping, Charting, and Geodetic Terms provides detailed information on maps, charts, and associated terms. It is designed to help users at all levels understand and communicate effectively by using the same language with regards to maps and mapping. Terms are alphabetically arranged, and terms with multiple definitions are nu...
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    16,47 €

  • Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithms and Industry 4.0 in Firms and Clusters
    This volume offers a diverse discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.0 to understand the importance of these paradigms for the development of firms, districts, clusters, cities, regions, and innovation.This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies. ...
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    241,19 €

  • A Resonant Ecology
    Max Ritts
    In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. While conservationists hope that the dissemination of whale songs and other nature sounds will showcase the beauty of local wildlife for people around the world, Ritts reveals how colonial capitalism can co-o...
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    128,41 €

  • A Resonant Ecology
    Max Ritts
    In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. While conservationists hope that the dissemination of whale songs and other nature sounds will showcase the beauty of local wildlife for people around the world, Ritts reveals how colonial capitalism can co-o...
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    33,08 €

  • Geomorphological problems in non-dam lowlands
    Augustin Tiyégbo TOURE / Kobenan Etienne BINI / Kouadio Eugène KONAN
    The Gnomonkah lowland, located in the Katiola area of Côte d’Ivoire, concentrates just about all the problems faced by rice growers in the Hambol region. Not least of these is the lack of control over geomorphological constraints. These constraints, which are both static and hydrodynamic, can be summed up in a complex problem: that of controlling water on sites whose developmen...
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    86,91 €

  • The socioeconomic structure of low-income housing in Santa Maria/RS
    Ricardo Stedile Neto / Sandra Ana Bolfe
    Real estate speculation in large cities and metropolises causes population densification, as well as countless other problems, both structural and social. One of the most common is the appropriation of unsuitable places for housing, usually by the low-income population. Based on this, it is clear that the occupied areas often need to be expropriated due to the existence of risk...
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    49,76 €

  • Extraterritorial Land Tenure and the Legal-Ethical Framework
    Joseph-Eric Nnomenko’o
    Aware that the place and role of China in sub-Saharan Africa have been the realm of 'buzz' for several years now, and that there is still a lack of detailed analysis of the realities of Chinese presence in Africa in terms of ethnography, most researchers sometimes prefer to stick to fairly general ideas that lead them to take shelter behind the quotations of those who have gone...
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    55,46 €

  • The issue of solid waste for basic education
    Áurea Nascimento de S. Mesquita / Elisabeth Regina Alves C. Silva / Tiago Fernando de Holanda
    This book is a collection of reflections and analyses of the state of the art of the ’waste issue’ and how this theme is being addressed in basic education. We have taken Critical Environmental Education (CE) as our guiding principle, understood here as a methodology of analysis that starts from a sequential practice and apprehension of reality through perception and an attitud...
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    50,61 €

  • Environmental vulnerability on the BR-101 North, Brazil
    Elisabeth R .A. Cavalcanti Silva / José Gustavo da Silva Melo / Marcelo Monteiro Bezerra
    The general aim of this work is to analyse environmental vulnerability in the face of possible environmental accidents arising from the transport of dangerous products by road on the BR 101 north, specifically in the region around the Capibaribe river. Based on the assessment of the environmental situation of this stretch, together with the specific objectives of identifying th...
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    50,73 €

  • Teaching Topological Relationships to children in the Early Years
    Dulcinéia Cristina Chiapetti / Mafalda Nesi Francischett
    This dissertation on ’Teaching topological relationships to children in the early years of primary school’ focuses on the difficulties children have in the learning process, especially in forming concepts involving laterality, cardinal directions and other guiding principles. It is justified by the fact that many children have difficulties understanding topological relationship...
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    69,74 €

  • Becoming Weather
    Sarah Wright
    Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming. ...
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    241,36 €

  • Effects of Hydraulic Ram Pumps Use to the Living Standards
    Magdalene Ngethe Munywoki
    This study investigated how hydraulic ram pumps help raise the standard of living for those who live in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). This study’s primary goal was to determine how hydraulic ram pumps in the Yatta Sub County of Machakos, Kenya, contributed to raising the standard of living for residents in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). The specific objectives were to ev...
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    75,63 €


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